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Posted on 08/28/2005 2:38:16 PM PDT by NautiNurse
My husband just got a call from his brother who works for CentCom in Tampa (retired Navy Lt-Commander, rehired as civilian), he says he's never seen anything like this, the sheer size/power of the thing - hurricane force winds 200 miles across, twice the width of the FL penninsula. They're getting rain bands in Tampa right now.
See #631. Hope you are safe.
I'm not going to argue with a lawyer....LOL!
I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express once AND I do some design work on the 'side'...I'm comfortable with my analysis.
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Bogey lost power.
It's obviously benefiting/comforting them, or they wouldn't be here. It's the nature of people.
Max Mayfield is excellent.
I thought they did start a voluntary evac last night? If not, then when did they?
The Darwin-Award-Nominees are certainly free to make their own decisions....however, they should not expect authorities to come rescue them when their stupidity puts them in a life-threatening situation.
The NO experimental radar for those that can get it...
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/lix_N0Z_lp.shtml
I grew up in north Pointe Coupee, which is just north of the Atchafalya Spillway and south of the Old River Control Structure (which are the main two "flood control structures" to keep the Mississippi from "re-channeling" down the Atchafalaya, and they are designed for (as I recall) an amount of water 3X the 1927 flood (largest of historical record). No hurricane is going to drop that amount of water, and those structures are so massive (and low) that they are invulnerable to wind damage.
I'm betting they end up at the Superdome like the Fox reporter who is doing live interviews. That guy said he was going to be in the Superdome with them, which I think is a good thing. Seeing some well-known, famous, or wealthier people in the shelters may bring a calm to the poor and stranded - like they are all in it together and not being singled out for certain death. That's my opinion.
Huh! Didn't think he was capable of understanding "scared".
Humorous story: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46009
Apparently ss was chatting up someone in a hotel, asking him why he was there, and the guy (to his credit) said "None of your f-----g business"; on-mic on-air.
yep
Neither have I. I am terrified for everyone in its path!
Sending urgent, almost desperate prayers, and it isn't helping hearing things coming off Fox News like "50,000" casualties... 50% of people stuck/left in New Orleans are children!
Nice image. See the purple blob SW of the eyewall?
That's tomorrow's energy budget.
If it turns north, then the best we can hope for is for the eyewall to come ashore when the spiral inflow path between that point and the eyewall is feeding the minimum energy into the storm. In other words, when the SW purple blob is halfway from where it is now and being pulled into the eyewall.
It has turned more northerly, but just more in line with the NHC track. Earlier, it was actually going more to the west of the track.
Unless it starts actually going nne here, there is not much hope for NO, and somebody will get battered in any event.
Shoot, they've issued an Inland Tropical Storm warning here in TN!
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