Posted on 09/14/2004 10:41:58 PM PDT by lainie
The Weather Channel had someone reporting from New Orleans this morning before I went to work. Perhaps he was wise, and has relocated.
Yes, a bit windy. I'm not expecting more than 75MPH gusts, maybe 50MPH steady. I've got the whole place cleaned up, all the kid's toys and patio stuff is in the barn. My mother lives in a double wide next door to us, so she'll be spending the next few nights in our sturdy house. We're up on a hill, but the only thing I'm worried about is tornados. I've just field tested the generator, all looks good.
I remember an early season tropical storm many years ago that dumped large amounts of rain on Lake Martin while it was at full pool. I don't remember how many floodgates they had to open, but it may have been 13 out of 20. Lake Martin is 487.7 right now, according to lakemartin.com,(full pool is 490) so there is not much room for heavy rains before they have to start opening floodgates. I remember another storm that hit during a drought that filled up Lake Martin when it was down about 5-6 feet, and that was a minimal hurricane. As for Lake Jordan, that puddle is too small for any flood control.
Updated live stream list:
WWL-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP): http://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_wwltv
WJZD-FM Biloxi (WMP): http://www.wjzd.com/wjzd.asx
WNSP-FM Mobile (MP3): http://209.136.114.9:8000/listen.pls
WPMI-AM Mobile (WMP): http://mmslb.eonstreams.com/ccri_al_mobile_wntm_am.asf
WPMI-TV/DT Mobile/Pensacola (WMP): http://video.wpmi.com/viewer/content/special.php?Art_ID=36468&Format_ID=2&BitRate_ID=8&Contract_ID=16&Obj_ID=
WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans (RP): http://mfile.akamai.com/8172/live/reflector:24024.ram
Anyhow, yes. That was from Buffett's song, 'Biloxi'. One of my favorites.
It seems all I have done all summer long is pray it would stop raining here. We've got a creek as the north border of the property and in summer it is generally not more than a trickle.....not this year.
The bank is higher on our side, but with so much rain this year it has flooded my fields I don't know how many times. I lost my entire garden - it turned into a swamp and what I didn't lose because of water I lost to the deer.
He was a guy reporting for ABC News.. looked to be on loan to TWC.
Thanks for the weather update. Good luck riding it out. Lots of tall pine trees out in your part of the state - your generator will be needed.
Where are you getting those???
Yeah sitting in NAS Oceana base housing. Wouldn't be so bad if they'd clean the gutters every once in a while...
All of my neighbor's docks are under water, and we are still one hour from high tide at the mouth of the Tampa Bay (high tide=1355). I still have a good 1.5 feet left before my dock is submerged. Ivan has very far reaching effects.
Mobile AM radio says "you won't believe what it's gonna sound like tonight around midnight."
There are other factors in play, including the jet stream and high/low pressure systems that 'steer' the hurricane. As it moves further north it will start getting 'pushed' back to the east a little.
I used to live there.. over off Glen Falls Ct. Mid 80's though so I assume they've been changed around since.
Hearing all kinds of bounces on the hurricane net...hearing grand cayman traffic....2000 homeless on Grand Cayman wandering aimlessly...."looks like bombed out area"
other operator contacting stations along Gulf of Mexico......the skip signal is in!
I don' like the visions that photo conjurs up! Too freaky.
An expert from NASA was saying that when El Nino is present (it is like a southern jet stream), it clips these apart and thus we don't get but few hurricanes. Now there is nothing to keep them from forming!
Just heard that CBS is sending Dan Rather to NO to do live reports outside during the storm...
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