Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII

NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[NautiNurse]

Category 4 Hurricane Katrina is approaching landfall in Eastern Louisiana. At 4:00AM EDT the storm's center was about 90 miles south of New Orleans.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Navy Storm Track
Katrina Track Forecast Archive Nice loop of each NHC forecast track for both three and five day
Forecast Models
Alternate Hurricane Models via Skeetobite
Bouy Data Louisiana/Mississippi
Buoy Data Florida

Lake Ponchartrain Real Time Water Level

Wind Speed Data

Images:

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Experimental Radar Subject to delays and outages - and well worth the wait

Mobile Long Range Radar Loop

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Radar

Ft. Polk, LA Long Range Radar Loop

Northwest Florida Long Range Radar

Storm Floater IR Loop
Storm Floater Still & Loop Options
Color Enhanced IR Loop

Other Resources:

Hurricane Wind Risk Very informative tables showing inland wind potential by hurricane strength and forward motion
Central Florida Hurricane Center
New Orleans Web Cams Loads of web cam sites here. The sites have been very slow due to high traffic
New Orleans Music Online Couldn't resist--love that jazz
Golden Triangle Weather Page Nice Beaumont weather site with lots of tracks and graphics
Hurricane City
Crown Weather Tropical Website Offers a variety of storm info, with some nice track graphics

Live streaming:

Cut and Paste:

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad

Fully-linked version of the live feeds (just in case a few people don't want to first open up WMP to cut-and-paste) -

WWL-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_wwltv
WVTM-TV/DT Birmingham (WMP) - mms://a1256.l1289835255.c12898.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/

1256/12898/v0001/reflector:35255
WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38202.asx
Hurricane City (Real Player) - http://hurricanecity.com/live.ram
ABCNews Now (Real Player) - http://reallive.stream.aol.com/ramgen/redundant/abc/now_hi.rm
WKRG-TV/DT

Mobile (WMP) - mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast

.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518 WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans via WESH-TV/DT Orlando - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx

Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12

Category	Wind Speed	Barometric Pressure	Storm Surge	Damage Potential
Tropical Depression	< 39 mph < 34 kts			Minimal
Tropical Storm	39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts			Minimal
Hurricane 1 (Weak)	74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts	28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more	4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m	Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2 (Moderate)	96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts	28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb	6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m	Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3 (Strong)	111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts	27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb	9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m	Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4 (Very strong)	131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts	27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb	13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m	Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5 (Devastating)	Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts	Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb	Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m	Catastrophic building failures possible

[Diddle E. Squat]

CNN: reporter in Hattiesburg had start out southbound from Meridian before they got into the storm, and said he saw light traffic, not traffic jams coming northbound (so hopefully everyone who tried to evacuated up I-59 were able to get out before the storm hit.)

[Joe 6-pack]

"How do you raise an island?"

Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor is on a completely man made island.

[green iguana]

Wow. Thank you - that must have been one heck of an effort.

[Ingtar]

At least they knew that cell phones worked in the Superdome. Saints wide receivers are good for something.

Stop and think about this, though. How much more damage would the city have taken for each half mile west the eye had hit? Then consider how small a distance a mile or two is in the size of the storm. That last jog to the east was easily a couple miles worth of movement.

[Quilla]

The Mound Underpass on Interstate-10 is flooded near downtown New Orleans on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina dumped torrential rain and battered the city when it made landfall near Grand Isle. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

[BurbankKarl]

I was early for a flight once, and went to Corky's in Metrarie....they kept me eating for two hours with some sampler!

[Diddle E. Squat]

CNN: AL news conference: Storm down to Cat 2, 100mph, but hurricane force winds still extend out more than 100 miles!

[green iguana]

I understand man-made islands. It's raising an island that already has buildings on it that had me a bit perplexed.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Oh, Oh, Oh...there's places near I10 that have just a little water, and other places that is really deep...I will be saying prayers for Liberty2004....

I suspect old Metry has parts that are really, really hit, and places between West Esplanade and Vets.... But I only some film, and it of course, wasn't exhaustive....I just happened to know two of the places.

[Abigail Adams]

They're just saying now downgraded to Cat 1.

[Diddle E. Squat]

CNN: AL news conference: waters may stil rise a bit in Mobile for a few more hours, should be subsiding by 6pm.

Wow, next speaker has big-time Gomer Pyle accent.

[monday]

"How do you raise an island? Does the former first floor of a house that survived the hurricane become it's basement?"

There weren't any houses on the island after that hurricane. They started over.

[Abigail Adams]

Gov of AL on now? Wow, what an accent!

[cgk]

there is streaming audio here:

http://www.wjnt.com/

BurbankKarl may know another one?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

You can get streaming feed from abc on the links that go with the article of this thread.

[SoothingDave]

On the list of hurricane preparations is a first aide kit. You have your meds with you and take them if you leave or keep them close esp if life saving. You stock up on water and food. I have enough not just for mine but for a neighbor that might not have prepared too. That's the way you do it. No need to loot stores and RXs.

Of course you plan ahead and have supplies and medicine. But not everyone is always prepared and excrement does happen.

I was only objecting to the absolute statement that it is always wrong to take without permission. There are cases where I would feel no moral harm in doing such a thing, if necessity necessitated it.

Would you let someone die of anaphylactic shock rather than "steal" from a closed and abandoned pharmacy? I would not. To say it's always wrong is to say that we must let that person die rather than steal necessary medicine. I don't think that is the moral thing to do.

SD

[Jack Black]

not much left after that hurricane. It is surprising given the 6,000 dead that anyone WANTED to live there again.

[Coldwater Creek]

It is really tough when I go to town to shop and have to go down Popular. The smells that waft across the road is unbelievable.

[conservativewasp]

No basements that near to sea level. For the few which did survive, very few, I guess the first floor became the foundation.

[Coldwater Creek]

I forgot to ask you, do you all still have Chris and Pitts.? I grew up on that stuff.