Official Hurricane Katrina Thread

[Samr]

Here's another question for you -- what's a millibar?? I'm hearing about it being 904 mb but don't know what that means.

dictionary.com- "A unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth (10-3) of a bar. Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 1,013 millibars."

It's the Oh- O'Meter, basically.

[rl64tx]

Cool. Here's another question for you -- what's a millibar?? I'm hearing about it being 904 mb but don't know what that means.

A millibar (mb) is a unit of measure for air pressure. 1 millibar us .02953 inches of mercury (Hg). Average sea level pressure is 1013.2 millibars o r29.92 inches of mercury.

[Jelly]

so...what's everybody's favorite hurricane theme music?
I'm going with CNN.

[Samr]

so...what's everybody's favorite hurricane theme music?

Katrina and the Waves- Walkin' on Sunshine

[rl64tx]

Scorpions- Rock you like a hurricane!!!

[Samr]

Bob Dylan- Hurricane

Lynyrd Skynyrd- Sweet Home Alabama

Ok, no more jokes.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

KE's got a point.

No jokes.

[Jelly]

no, I mean, haven't you noticed how CNN and other networks market Hurricanes (and wars). Hurricanes have their own theme music, with a slick dramatic intro...like NYPD Blue or The Sopranos. Hurricanes and wars and other disastrous events are sleekly packaged like an NBC drama.

[Kori Ellis]

Okay, don't turn this into a joke thread.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

no, I mean, haven't you noticed how CNN and other networks market Hurricanes (and wars). Hurricanes have their own theme music, with a slick dramatic intro...like NYPD Blue or The Sopranos. Hurricanes and wars and other disastrous events are sleekly packaged like an NBC drama.

Yeah, CNN has that graphic intro with everything that could possibly happen to you in a hurricane including "contamination of drinking water."

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

WWL-TV is going to cut out at midnight. Are there any other stations in NOLA with live feeds?

Well, it'd be nice to know, but they just said that they're cutting the NOLA operations and giving it to Baton Rouge.

[KEDA]

Google is your friend

[KEDA]

http://www.wdsu.com/video/4907831/detail.html

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Google is your friend

Too bad a 4-9 offsuit wasn't your friend last night!

Seriously, thanks.

[missmyzte]

Jackie on Fox News is too cool, she just seems to be an awesome person with a great spirit.

[KEDA]

, my cards were sooo cold last night I needed a jacket!

[Samr]

I just went and filled up with gas.

It's really an erie feeling. Disaster is a matter of hours away, and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it. By the time I wake up in the morning, thousands will be dead. I will be waking in my air conditioned house, getting in my non-damaged truck, and driving to a non-flooded doctor's office. While in New Orleans, meanwhile, the residents will be experiencing a of which I can only imagine.

So what are we left to do?

Sit here and speculate the outcome of something we cannot stop.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I just went and filled up with gas.

It's really an erie feeling. Disaster is a matter of hours away, and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it. By the time I wake up in the morning, thousands will be dead. I will be waking in my air conditioned house, getting in my non-damaged truck, and driving to a non-flooded doctor's office. While in New Orleans, meanwhile, the residents will be experiencing a of which I can only imagine.

So what are we left to do?

Sit here and speculate the outcome of something we cannot stop.

I guess we just do what we can to help.

Donate, pray, etc.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Is it just me or is it kind of weird that we have yet to see any photos from inside the Superdome?

[Samr]

I think everyone is still reporting from outside the dome. I'm sure they'll allow cameras in there, just all the major news stations either still want their guys talking to people in line, or they are putting them up in a different shelter.

[Jelly]

I just went and filled up with gas.

It's really an erie feeling. Disaster is a matter of hours away, and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it. By the time I wake up in the morning, thousands will be dead. I will be waking in my air conditioned house, getting in my non-damaged truck, and driving to a non-flooded doctor's office. While in New Orleans, meanwhile, the residents will be experiencing a of which I can only imagine.

So what are we left to do?

Sit here and speculate the outcome of something we cannot stop.

I really don't believe thousands will be dead. This is an intense storm, but the media has a tendancy to hype things. With emergency evacuations underway, I will be surprised if more than a hundred are dead. Still a hundred too many and it must really suck to be in that area right now.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I think everyone is still reporting from outside the dome. I'm sure they'll allow cameras in there, just all the major news stations either still want their guys talking to people in line, or they are putting them up in a different shelter.

Yeah, but no photogs?

[Trainwreck2100]

America donated so much to the tsunami relief, I was wondering how much the world would share with us.

[Kori Ellis]

With emergency evacuations underway, I will be surprised if more than a hundred are dead.

Well I think only 50% of them are evacuated from the city so far. That spells for more than 100 dead. *Praying for some miracle that there will be none*

[Samr]

I really don't believe thousands will be dead. This is an intense storm, but the media has a tendancy to hype things. With emergency evacuations underway, I will be surprised if more than a hundred are dead.

But think about it this way-

New Orleans goes underwater. There are, say, 30,000 people who are too stupid to leave their homes. 1 out of every 30 people dies? I could see that.

Nevermind the fact that this storm is going to wreak havoc from NOLA to Florida. Then you have tornados, flooding, disease. There might not be 1000 INITIALLY, but the death toll from this thing is going to rise quickly.

I don't buy into the "disaster of biblical proportions" stuff the media is putting out, but this is going to be bad.

Very bad.