Official Hurricane Katrina Thread

[MannyIsGod]

It's gonna suck if New Orleans gets drowned because a bunch of damn water rats like this one weakened the Ponchatrain levee and it can't handle the surge/waves...

I remember watching Dave Atell vist NO and get to go along with the people that shoot those ers each night. Great stuff.

[ObiwanGinobili]

You know, I have a lot to post now that I'm at the end of this thread but I'm going to start with this...

Obiwan and El Pimpo, you 2 are extremely full of in this thread. I'm sure that you're going to risk walking on highways - some of which don't have shoulders for 10s of miles because they are bridges over swamps - in 100 degree heat indexs for about 60 miles rather than take shelter some where in NO.

Especially you Obiwan! You're ing pregnant!

manny. breathe. deep breaths.
I am simply saying I would do whatever was necassary to get myslef out including walking if i had to. i know I'm pregnant, thast why i want ot get to safety. last time I walked out of an emergency situation I did so with my 1yr old brother strapped to my back like luggage. I walked along the road, between the cars.. and finaly someone said : Hey! I'll give you a ride.
this is what I would do. what these people do or not do for wahtever reason is there buisness. alot of these people had no options available to them, i understand that. But i also know what I would do since I've done it before and what i would do is not wrong to do. it's not wrong for me to say what i would do.
breathe.
and lets all move on to the hurricane allready.
any updates on Mobile??? I heard they got the worst of it so far......

[Kori Ellis]

I believe those were the people we were talking about...which sounded like the guy that was quoted.

I know that's who YOU were talking about. But a lot of people in this thread keep saying that all or most of the 200+K that stayed could have gotten out if they wanted to. I don't think that's the case. A lot of them just couldn't .. poor, old, unhealthy, unlucky, whatever.

[ObiwanGinobili]

2 of the 10 chelters are reporting major structural damage

would that be the superdome and the high school that reportadly lost it's roof?
or are they talkign about another shelter besides the superdome?

[Manu20]

http://headlines.accuweather.com/new...dc=0&article=2

Some facts from Katrina as she crosses the the coastline and into southern Louisiana:

Sunday, sustained winds in Katrina had vaulted to a peak of 175 mph and highest gusts reached an unbelievable 215 mph. The storm came inland

Monday morning with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph. Waves in the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico, about 75 miles south of the Gulf coastline, topped 47 feet. Grande Isle, LA recored a wind gust of 114 mph as Katrina neared. There were also gusts to 113 mph at Pascagoula Civil Defense office, MA, 102 mph at Belle Chasse, LA, and 101 mph at Southwest Pass, LA.

Check back to Accuweather.com for additional updates as Hurricane Katrina unleashes her power on the southern Gulf Coast States.

[ObiwanGinobili]

I believe those were the people we were talking about...which sounded like the guy that was quoted. Given the tools he had chosen to break through his own roof, I'm making an educated guess that he had at least some physical ability and was handicap or otherwise infirm.

Even if they couldn't have gotten out of the city, unless they had to walk barefoot through 20 miles of glass and swampland there's no reason why they couldn't have at least tried to find a more secure shelter with far more safety standards than their KB crackerjack box.

when I made my one comment about the guy with the cell phone.. this is the type of people I was talking about.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

I remember watching Dave Atell vist NO and get to go along with the people that shoot those ers each night. Great stuff.

Haha, I remember that too! Awesome.

[MannyIsGod]

It actually has a more solid core over Mississippi than it did earlier over LA. The wind speed will be down, but the area getting hurricane force winds will probably be greater.

I don't know what the caused that storm to weaken, but it saved NO.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Waves in the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico, about 75 miles south of the Gulf coastline, topped 47 feet. Grande Isle, LA recored a wind gust of 114 mph as Katrina neared. There were also gusts to 113 mph at Pascagoula Civil Defense office, MA, 102 mph at Belle Chasse, LA, and 101 mph at Southwest Pass, LA.

Check back to Accuweather.com for additional updates as Hurricane Katrina unleashes her power on the southern Gulf Coast States.

No offense, but you need to find a better source Pascagoula isn't in MA, it's in MS.

And way earlier in this thread I was posting wave heights from buoys as high as 82 feet.

[MannyIsGod]

Oh, and every minute that goes by and those levees hold is a good thing. The winds aren't coming straight form the north anymore and are going to get weaker and weaker.

The forward speed it picked up (from 10mph to 16mph) was also anotehr godsend.

[2pac]

would that be the superdome and the high school that reportadly lost it's roof?
or are they talkign about another shelter besides the superdome?

Other than teh Superdome - these are shelters in St Bernard.

[Extra Stout]

I don't know what the caused that storm to weaken, but it saved NO.

There was a patch of dry high-pressure north of the storm that got pulled in as a trough approached and weakened convection along the west side.

[Ginofan]

Storm surge and 30 foot waves breeched the NO levees - much of city under 2-3 ft of water - structuaal damage
reported some parts of the eastern suburbs of NO.

Better than the 20 or 30ft of water it could've been under if the storm hadn't shifted.

[ObiwanGinobili]

Other than teh Superdome - these are shelters in St Bernard.

which reminds me... any news on the HS that lost it's roof???

[MannyIsGod]

There was a patch of dry high-pressure north of the storm that got pulled in as a trough approached and weakened convection along the west side.

That event occuring implies an already weaking hurricane because the storm prior to that point was pushing all the dry air away with its outflow.

It was probably a combination of things.

[JoePublic]

The power of prayer work wonders.

[MannyIsGod]

I'm really amazed the at how the storm is holding itself together after being over land for almost 9 hours now. It still has a very discernable eye!

I'm also convinced that had the eyewall not collapsed when it did, NO would be gone. They got lucky.

But the sad thing is this is still going to to cause billions of damage and the oil rigs out in the ocean didn't get much relief.

[Jelly]

The power of prayer work wonders.

So no one was praying for the 150,000 souls in Southeast Asia?

[1369]

I'm really amazed the at how the storm is holding itself together after being over land for almost 9 hours now. It still has a very discernable eye!

I'm also convinced that had the eyewall not collapsed when it did, NO would be gone. They got lucky.

But the sad thing is this is still going to to cause billions of damage and the oil rigs out in the ocean didn't get much relief.

Manny, earlier this morning (about 0300 earlier) I was listening to some of the talking heads on CNN and they think that Katrina will maintain Tropical Storm status all the way to the Ohio valley.

[MannyIsGod]

That is pretty damn impressive.

[1369]

So no one was praying for the 150,000 souls in Southeast Asia?

I would imagine so, but in this case the warnings were able to be communicated to the effected areas.

Also, people had days and not hours to prepare for this.

[MannyIsGod]

Still, at least a cat 2 hurricane that far inland is phenomenal.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Hurricane Katrina is now on a path that will take it through Mississippi. And the governor says if his worst fears are true, there could be "a lot of dead people" along the coast. Gov. Haley Barbour said the storm hit Mississippi "like a ton of bricks." It brought a 22-foot storm surge, blew out the windows of a hospital, and left sailboats on a four-lane highway

[MannyIsGod]

A lot of people ed about the news coverage NO got and how not enough emphasis was put on the coasts of MS and AL. It looks like they may have been right.

[SWC Bonfire]

My prediction of Biloxi, MS was pretty close... too bad this thing couldn't have weakened, turned SW and hit somewhere around Baffin Bay.