Katrina

[cloudy]

I hope like hell that everyone that needs to is already out of the way. It's scheduled to hit us (inland) in a couple of days.

 

[Guest]

I hope like hell that everyone that needs to is already out of the way. It's scheduled to hit us (inland) in a couple of days.

It's frightening.

Blessings, all.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Hoping all are safe and sound with lots of porn to ride out the storm.

 

[Extreme Bohunk]

link to current info:
http://www.weather.com/?from=globalnav

this is one big, ugly storm.

 

[impressive]

Who's in its path?

 

[Guest]

From Bohunk's link -

Everyone along the northern Gulf of Mexico should be completing preparations for a major hurricane and take heed of evacutation orders. Hurricane warnings are up from Morgan City, La., to the Florida-Alabama border. This includes the city of New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain. A tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch have been issued from the Alabama-Florida border eastward to Destin, Florida and from west of Morgan City to Intracoastal City, Louisiana.

A storm surge of 20 to 25 feet or more is possible along and to the east of Katrina's landfall point Monday. On top of the water rise, pounding waves of 20 to 40 feet will produce catastrophic damage at coastal locations.

Effects from Katrina will not be confined to coastal areas. Once Hurricane Katrina makes landfall, it will progress inland Monday into Tuesday with a trail of flooding rains and damaging winds across Mississippi and Alabama and then into Tennessee. Torrential, flooding rainfall is possible with the remnants of Katrina well inland, possibly into the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes and the Northeast later this week.

Damn.

 

[Extreme Bohunk]

Who's in its path?

Louisanna, Alabama, Mississippi

This storm is as bad as it gets.

 

[cloudy]

Who's in its path?

Lord DragonsWing is in Mobile.....I'm due to be hit tomorrow....Colly, too, I think, if she's still at her folk's.

 

[impressive]

Lord DragonsWing is in Mobile.....I'm due to be hit tomorrow....Colly, too, I think, if she's still at her folk's.

What about our Floridians already affected? Have we heard from shereads & seacat since then?

 

[cloudy]

What about our Floridians already affected? Have we heard from shereads & seacat since then?

I'm not sure it affected Florida that much.

 

[impressive]

I'm not sure it affected Florida that much.

Hmmm ... I'd call 4 dead fairly "affected"

 

[Extreme Bohunk]

I'm not sure it affected Florida that much.

It was only a Category 1 when it passed over Fla, when it got back over the
Gulf of Mexico, it exploded overnight into a Category 5.

They're saying it's stronger than Andrew ('92) or Camille ('69)

 

[cloudy]

Hmmm ... I'd call 4 dead fairly "affected"

Hadn't heard that.

 

[impressive]

Hadn't heard that.

I only heard it in passing. Wasn't even following the story until I saw your thread. I'm so oblivious ... barefoot & braless in the mountains.

Now I'm worried about friends in jeopardy.

 

[sophia jane]

It's to the west of me quite a bit. The good thing is that alot of the time they call it Cat 5 but by the time it actually hits it's often only around a 3. Still a helluva storm, either way.

 

[SeaCat]

My hopes are that everyone is smart enough to get the hell out of the way of this storm. The last I heard Katrina was packing sustained winds of 175 MPH with gusts over 200 MPH. If it hits New Orleans dead center I have the feeling it will take years for New Orleans to recover, if it ever does.

West Palm Beach lucked out with Katrina. The highest winds we recrded here were around 50 MPH and the rains decided to head south. Miami-Dade County got hit pretty good. Five plus deaths have been directly blamed on the storm, (Four were hit by a falling tree.) All told Florida did luck out.

My advice to those in Katrina's path. Get the hell out of there. I have been through two Cat. 3 storms and one Cat. 4. They were absolutley no fun and dangerouse as hell. I have absolutly no concept of what it would be like to get hit by the eyewall of a Cat.5. (They are saying the wonds around the eyewall are the equivalent of a Force 3 Tornado.) Please people, stay safe and don't take any risks you don't need to. I don't want to have to read about any of my online friends cashing it in because of getting stupid.

Cat

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Lord DragonsWing is in Mobile.....I'm due to be hit tomorrow....Colly, too, I think, if she's still at her folk's.

I'm still in Mississippi, but should be well north of it.

 

[cloudy]

This is scary:

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/spec_trop6_277x187.jpg

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Just reading another report on the storm:

From NBC:

Its central pressure — a measure of a storm’s intensity — fell to 906 millibars, making Katrina the second strongest storm on record after the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 that hit the Florida Keys. That storm recorded a minimum central pressure of 892 millibars on landfall.

Not to sound meladramatic but this storm really has the potential to almost wipe New Orleans off the map. On a normal coastline a 28 foot storm surge is terrifying and would cause massive destruction. For New Orleans which altready sits below sea level it's beyond imagination.

 

[moonlight elf]

This is scary:

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/spec_trop6_277x187.jpg

Yes, it is looking pretty bad. I'm keeping everyone in my thoughts and hoping that they stay safe.

 

[cloudy]

supposed to come right over me Tues. am.

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/map_tropprjpath12_ltst_5nhato_enus_600x405.jpg

 

[R. Richard]

I was through a hurricane when I lived in the East coast. Very dangerous, very scary. My best wishes for all in the area.

 

[impressive]

supposed to come right over me Tues. am.

Wed. pm for me ... but by then it'll just be buckets of rain.

Praying for everyone in harm's way.

 

[moonlight elf]

*Hugs* to Cloudy and Imp.

Be safe My thoughts are with you.

 

[rgraham666]

Don't know if God listens to the prayers of agnostics, but I'm adding mine.