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WookieBooger
Footballguy
Ignoramus and TigerFan: where ya at and where are you from?
I'm calling it now:
The storm will drift N and gradually take a NNE tack and the eyewall will make landfall between NO and Biloxi.
Flooding will still be very bad all over but the huge push up the river that could turn the Big Easy into Lake New Orleans will not happen. The Big Easy will dodge another bullet - but very narrowly.
Can anything good come from such a natural disaster? Yes...I suppose. Perhaps this will bring attention to the erosion of the Louisiana coast that has been unchecked for decades. The million or so acres we've lost in the estuary would be pretty nice to have around right about now.
Just to state my affiliation: I was born in NO and lived there for 25 years. My parents, my sister and her husband and my in-laws all still live in and around the area. All have stayed in town - Sister and Mother are on the critical personnel list at an area hospital and my father stayed with them. Inlaws are just S of I-12 in Madisonville and should be OK.
BTW...here's a Link to a webcam housed in my high school alma mater. The school is located at the base of a levee that holds the Mississippi. Literally. As in run a few hundred yards and you're heading up the levee (ahh...fond memories of football conditioning...levees with another D-Lineman on your back just to make it more interesting).
Anyway...as it's night there obviously isn't much to see but the camera may provide some interesting (as in severely disheartening) footage as the storm heads in. The cam appears to update hourly.
The storm will drift N and gradually take a NNE tack and the eyewall will make landfall between NO and Biloxi.
Flooding will still be very bad all over but the huge push up the river that could turn the Big Easy into Lake New Orleans will not happen. The Big Easy will dodge another bullet - but very narrowly.
Can anything good come from such a natural disaster? Yes...I suppose. Perhaps this will bring attention to the erosion of the Louisiana coast that has been unchecked for decades. The million or so acres we've lost in the estuary would be pretty nice to have around right about now.
Just to state my affiliation: I was born in NO and lived there for 25 years. My parents, my sister and her husband and my in-laws all still live in and around the area. All have stayed in town - Sister and Mother are on the critical personnel list at an area hospital and my father stayed with them. Inlaws are just S of I-12 in Madisonville and should be OK.
BTW...here's a Link to a webcam housed in my high school alma mater. The school is located at the base of a levee that holds the Mississippi. Literally. As in run a few hundred yards and you're heading up the levee (ahh...fond memories of football conditioning...levees with another D-Lineman on your back just to make it more interesting).
Anyway...as it's night there obviously isn't much to see but the camera may provide some interesting (as in severely disheartening) footage as the storm heads in. The cam appears to update hourly.
WookieBooger
Footballguy
WookieBooger
Footballguy
Are you watching the weather channel?
RoarinSonoran
Footballguy
First time watching these stations?
http://www.nola.com/fqfest/
Check out the Quarter Cam and the River Cam for view that gives you a good perspective of the city.
Keep praying.
My wife and I are from New Orleans, and we're suppoed to be moving back to NO on September 9. We already sold our house in DC and bought one in Mandeville, LA. We were even suppoed to have our draft live online tonight, but I postponed it because we have owners who are evacuating.
I can't belive the timing. I can't believe this is happening. I guess i'll sit here all night because we can't sleep.
I appreciate eveyone's cool comments. Best of luck to everyone who has friends and family down there.
Check out the Quarter Cam and the River Cam for view that gives you a good perspective of the city.
Keep praying.
My wife and I are from New Orleans, and we're suppoed to be moving back to NO on September 9. We already sold our house in DC and bought one in Mandeville, LA. We were even suppoed to have our draft live online tonight, but I postponed it because we have owners who are evacuating.
I can't belive the timing. I can't believe this is happening. I guess i'll sit here all night because we can't sleep.
I appreciate eveyone's cool comments. Best of luck to everyone who has friends and family down there.
rolyaTy
You're Heinous
NoFirst time watching these stations?
. But generally i'm not so interested in the answers to the questions as I am now and the news people just WONT SHUT UP. They have people on to be interviewed but they almost have to fight to get a word in edgewise. Give these people mirrors and let them talk to themselves, and let people call in and interview these experts. Crikey.
WookieBooger
Footballguy
Good timing!I moved to Pittsburgh about 1 month ago. last lived uptown. I feel VERY fortunate right now.I'm from Metairie, but just bought a house in Kenner (moved all of our stuff in yesterday). I'm currently @ Ft. Polk where my brother is stations (near Leesville)
Marc Levin
Hangs out with Oscar Zeta Acosta
MIstake #1.Yeah - weather channel is better. CNN better than Fox, but not by much - Fox is useless.
Marc Levin
Hangs out with Oscar Zeta Acosta
well, TWC is providing coverage of the weather more than the people.
I can't believe the timing. Where are y'all now? I've got family and friends from San Antonio to Montgomery. My brother in law was supposed to get back into NOLA from a cruise today. The ship docked yesterday in Galveston and kicked everyone off of the boat. No rides, no hotels, no buses. Nothing. Just kicked them off. I guess he's lucky he's not in the city, but his house (lives on Magazine uptown) and dog aren't so lucky.Good timing!I moved to Pittsburgh about 1 month ago. last lived uptown. I feel VERY fortunate right now.I'm from Metairie, but just bought a house in Kenner (moved all of our stuff in yesterday
HarryManback
Hot Pead
Not with winds like this, 175mph.
C
CrossEyed
Guest
Welcome to Western PA.Good timing!I moved to Pittsburgh about 1 month ago. last lived uptown. I feel VERY fortunate right now.I'm from Metairie, but just bought a house in Kenner (moved all of our stuff in yesterday
WookieBooger
Footballguy
Was someone able to get his animal?I can't believe the timing. Where are y'all now? I've got family and friends from San Antonio to Montgomery. My brother in law was supposed to get back into NOLA from a cruise today. The ship docked yesterday in Galveston and kicked everyone off of the boat. No rides, no hotels, no buses. Nothing. Just kicked them off. I guess he's lucky he's not in the city, but his house (lives on Magazine uptown) and dog aren't so lucky.Good timing!I moved to Pittsburgh about 1 month ago. last lived uptown. I feel VERY fortunate right now.I'm from Metairie, but just bought a house in Kenner (moved all of our stuff in yesterday
Pure gut and a strong desire for it to hit where I said. Past Irish Bayou and Slidell is the Honey Island Swamp and then a bunch of sparsely populated area until one gets to the outskirts of Biloxi. TWC shows the storm trending slightly N and beginning to go NNE so basically I'm just hoping but "Calling it" sounds better.
WookieBooger
Footballguy
God I hope you are right but this storm is so huge that it may not matter that much.The housing stock in New Orleans will be severly damaged.
I KNOW the house I just moved from will not be there!
Marc Levin
Hangs out with Oscar Zeta Acosta
I can't imagine ANYthing happening in the next 8 hours that is going to significantly change the path of a CLASS FIVE Hurricane.when they are that big and powerful, they are very predictable. Small storms can juke and jive and die out - Class 5 hurricanes are a mack truck with no brakes and no steering wheel - they fly straight through whatever they want and they fly in a pretty straight line.
WookieBooger
Footballguy
correct me if I am wrong but I seem to remember officials saying that the force from Andrew was equal to 10 of the bombs we dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshimi?
Marc Levin
Hangs out with Oscar Zeta Acosta
??I am pretty sure Camille had winds like that before it hit shore.
And we have no idea what the wids were like in the Class 5 hurricane that ripped through the south in the early 1900s.
Yes, this is a huge powerful storm, but things "like this" (you said "nothing like this") have certainly happened before both to the US and to this part of the country.
Marc Levin
Hangs out with Oscar Zeta Acosta
they know what to expect, is my point.
tipsy mcstagger
Footballguy
city is starting to get hit pretty good by tstorms & wind now. just look at this radar from WDSU in N.O.
WookieBooger
Footballguy
Not to mention: Fire ants,sewerage,oil and gas, and CORPSES!We bury our dead above ground here folks because the water table is so high. Coffins will pop out of the tombs. Heard it my whole life from parents and such who went through Betsy in Lafitte
Just heard it in the background, MRh but it had moved a tiny bit. But still something like the 9th lowest ever recorded in the Atlantic basin or something like that.
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WookieBooger
Footballguy
904 mB at 11 est
Could be Roly,I had it on in the background while working on the FBG email update.I thought I heard it was the 4th lowestJust heard it in the background, MRh but it had moved a tiny bit. But still something like the 9th lowest ever recorded in the Atlantic basin or something like that..
J
rolyaTy
You're Heinous
Yeah, that'll suck. I heard from my grandparents from Texas that when there was a huge hurricane from where they grew up, people had to go to their roofs to escape the flooding and when the water got up that high, they were having to fight off water moccasins and other snakes who were also seeking higher ground. The brute force of the hurricane is bad enough, add flooding and all the other extenuating circumstances and I couldn't imagine being down there right now.
I hope I'm right too.
Like I said...my prediction is more based on not wanting to have any deceased or homeless relatives (or any folks for that matter) tomorrow than upon any professional observations.
At least you're on the Northshore and don't have to worry as much about the Pontchartrain/Borne/Catherine lake system pouring into your living room. If the storm hits NO and the eyewall is still pushing Cat 5 winds we may have a true American refugee crisis on our hands.
Someone posted this link to the Hurricane Camille damage in 1969. It looks like post-blast Hiroshima. Page down and look at the apartment complex - a reasonably stout-looking brick structure shorn to the foundation. Ugh. Didn't someone post earlier that hurricanes are no big deal? Something along the lines of it being no big deal to stand outside? Though I've been through every hurricane to hit the area up until 1995 - and none were Cat 5 - it's still a heckuva thing to go through.
Betsy hit in 1965 but it was more a water problem - which is bad enough. Camille didn't bring as much standing water but the wind was obviously terrible. I'm hoping for the best as all of my family is still in and around the city.
Like I said...my prediction is more based on not wanting to have any deceased or homeless relatives (or any folks for that matter) tomorrow than upon any professional observations.
At least you're on the Northshore and don't have to worry as much about the Pontchartrain/Borne/Catherine lake system pouring into your living room. If the storm hits NO and the eyewall is still pushing Cat 5 winds we may have a true American refugee crisis on our hands.
Someone posted this link to the Hurricane Camille damage in 1969. It looks like post-blast Hiroshima. Page down and look at the apartment complex - a reasonably stout-looking brick structure shorn to the foundation. Ugh. Didn't someone post earlier that hurricanes are no big deal? Something along the lines of it being no big deal to stand outside? Though I've been through every hurricane to hit the area up until 1995 - and none were Cat 5 - it's still a heckuva thing to go through.
Betsy hit in 1965 but it was more a water problem - which is bad enough. Camille didn't bring as much standing water but the wind was obviously terrible. I'm hoping for the best as all of my family is still in and around the city.
rolyaTy
You're Heinous
Yeah, i think that's right. They had something on Andrew I believe, or one of the other bad hurricanes and the lowest point for it was 909. 256 people dead, 1.56 billion dollars in damage. I think that was on the weather channel.I think that was when it was 902.I thought I heard it was the 4th lowestJust heard it in the background, MRh but it had moved a tiny bit. But still something like the 9th lowest ever recorded in the Atlantic basin or something like that.