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Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part V
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| 28 August 2005
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Posted on 08/28/2005 9:35:34 AM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: mware
1,061
posted on
08/28/2005 11:49:21 AM PDT
by
Dog
( "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.")
To: commish
Be it NO, Slidell, Gulfport, Biloxi or pascagoula...some place is going to get wiped off the map. There is too much focus on New Orleans. All of these places may cease to exist.
To: KC Burke
As I was following this thread you wrote...
The public, the media, the local officials, and even we here have been conditioned to expect government to be the source of our direction and safety.
...took the words right out of my mouth.
1,063
posted on
08/28/2005 11:49:43 AM PDT
by
AD from SpringBay
(We have the government we allow and deserve.)
To: ladyjane
I was absolutely in the middle of that! Best three day vacation in my life!
But, for the past thirty years, every time it snows people start worrying its going to be the '78 Blizzard all over again.
My point is that the media hype on weather is so intense, that when it really matters some folks dont pay attention.
1,064
posted on
08/28/2005 11:49:53 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(I am not from Vermont. I lived there for four years and that was enough.)
To: ladyjane
They better tell those people to bring Hefty bags....no plumbing means NO PLUMBING
To: Mister Baredog
Yeah, it was a catagory 1 when it crossed Florida and killed 5, knocked out electricity for millions and did a billion dollars damage...a CAT. ONE, 1!!!!
To: LA Woman3
That should be soon (3 hours). I just got in touch with my aunt and her family and they made it to Memphis (her family lives on the other side of the causeway- north of Lake Ponch). My cousin lives in the garden district and made it to Austin. Thankfully. My grandparents are laid to rest in NO. I hope I will have somewhere to pay respects the next time I visit...
To: NautiNurse
The TV just said there's a lone trumpeter in the empty French Quarter playing "Amazing Grace."
This is heart-breaking. It's like the Titanic.
God protect them.
1,068
posted on
08/28/2005 11:50:03 AM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(There are very few shades of gray.)
To: spectre
It's a shame they never made plans for a Mass evacuation, using public transportation and tent cities for these people to go to.
The tent cities would have had to be put up west of Houston or east of Pensecola, and if they really did try to do this, the ACLU would have likely gotten a court order forbidding it.
When this is all done with, our nation needs to take a serious look at our emergency system and actually put into place a series of enforceable laws to declare mandatory evacuations, to seize public and private transport to put those evacuations into effect, and the material to set up shelters for millions of people.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda - too late for this storm, but with the way the world is today, it won't just be for natural disasters that these systems need to be in place and ready to be used.
1,069
posted on
08/28/2005 11:50:03 AM PDT
by
kingu
(Draft Fmr Senator Fred Thompson for '08.)
To: topher
This is one mean lady (Hurricane Katrina). Let's hope for a Lili scenario (Cat 3 storm diminishes to Cat 1 just before landfall). Lili hit a patch of cooler water just offshore. This time, there isn't any.
1,070
posted on
08/28/2005 11:50:03 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
To: Knitting A Conundrum
Ah, Morning Call, you remember it too.
The marble, the mirrors, the 100watt bulbs.
Sure hated to see it gone.
We used to go to a place called Buster Holm's for
red Beans and rice, ultra cheap but filling.
I lived in an little apt over a mom and pop gro on
Jackson street, used to watch ZULU form up in front
of my stoop.
My prayers are with them.
1,071
posted on
08/28/2005 11:50:09 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: oceanview
To: Pyro7480
FEMA is likely being told this by NHC.
1,073
posted on
08/28/2005 11:50:13 AM PDT
by
nwctwx
(Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
To: mware
"Did I just hear the Fox reporter say that they are playing Amazing Grace throughout the city????"
I just lost it..
sw
1,074
posted on
08/28/2005 11:50:19 AM PDT
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife (God Bless New Orleans)
To: NautiNurse
The following is a quote from the National Weather Service for the New Orleans area.
"Maximum Sustained Winds In Excess Of 140 Mph Can Last For 2 To 3 Hours.
To: spectre
Hi, spectre. I wouldn't want to be in that superdome...there's just no way of knowing if it will withstand the storm. I feel for those folks who can't afford to leave and the city made no plans to help them with transportation to safer/higher ground.
1,076
posted on
08/28/2005 11:50:36 AM PDT
by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: Vinnie
I don't believe the superdome can withstand the expected wind pressure. I think the sides and the entire structure will go. I agree. That's what happened with Hurricane Camille in 1969 -- the coastline got wiped out. The buildings could not handle 200 mph sustained winds (in 1969).
A taller and larger structure (such as the Superdome) would probably be even more vulnerable.
1,077
posted on
08/28/2005 11:50:41 AM PDT
by
topher
(God bless and protect our troops and service personnel around the world)
To: nwctwx
Here in Central Fla. the sun is shining, but low rumbling thunder in the rain bands in the distance and billowy clouds. Occasional rain falling.
To: tet68
""I'm gonna git that Plazma TV I always wanted..."ROFL
You must be a native New Orleanian, as am I, or at least know the mindset of some of those people.
1,079
posted on
08/28/2005 11:50:41 AM PDT
by
El Gran Salseron
(The comments of this poster are meant for self-amusement only. Read at your own risk. :-))
To: commish
"The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane struck the Florida Keys with a minimum pressure of 892 mb--the lowest pressure ever observed in the United States. Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast causing a 25-foot storm surge, which inundated Pass Christian."
That comes from a NWS Saffire Simpson cat5 description. There is a patch of very warm water just south of the coast which could serve to feed this storm a little more and break the 892MB record.
God save those in the path of this storm.
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