Balls. Fucking storm has to get ready to hit on a goddamned weekend.
Looks to be relatively minor, but yeah, we’re gonna get soaked.
Still, I’ll take a little rain over a Charlie-style storm.
And the first weatherperson to make a Katrina and the Waves joke earns a beating.
I hope it makes its way over to Polk County. My lawn hasn’t gotten 2 inches of rain in over a month and I hate using the sprinkler system.
The least it could do is form itself off the African coast to give us that one week of advance notice. This shit was delivered on 2 Day Express Mail.
You know, with a name like that, just install a pole. She’ll rotate around it, strip AND do the split.
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| Originally Posted by Richard Dickson And the first weatherperson to make a Katrina and the Waves joke earns a beating. |
You can walk into the Fox News Radio studios this very second. Someone already made that joke this morning.
BAM! Direct hit.
Right now, my house is just above the eye, which is good since the real shitstorm is on the southern half of the storm. For those of you familiar with Miami, the parts that are getting pummeled are Southwest Miami-Dade (Kendall, Cutler Ridge, Coral Gables, Pinecrest) and Key Biscayne.
My in-laws living a few miles away have been without power since 5pm. My lights have flickered over a dozen times in the past hour, but it’s held up so far. I’m just blasting the A/C while I still can so it doesn’t get too hot if we lose power.
I’d go outside and shoot some pictures, but at least in my development, there’s nothing really interesting to show off.
MOTHERS OF FUCK NEW ORLEANS IS RAPED. wow.
Hey, I can finally use this!
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| Originally Posted by Richard Dickson Looks to be relatively minor |
Oops.
The good news, from my perspective: Pensacola isn’t getting a direct hit this time.
The bad news: Doesn’t matter much, this storm is so huge it’ll still flood the barrier islands and downtown (where I work).
New Orleans is in very bad shape. Quite frankly the city should never have been built there… Even if Katrina misses New Orleans, at some point in the future it will be hit with a major hurricane, the levees will be breached, and tens of thousands of people will die. Building a city under sea level along Hurricane Alley is as sensible as re-building Pompeii.
CNN had an interview yesterday afternoon with a guy who’s in charge of disaster preparedness for New Orleans. He said that recent research revealed that the walls built to protect the city from a hurricane of moderate strength actually aren’t adequate to protect them from just such a storm.
If New Orleans were to be hit now by a major hurricane (strong category 3 or higher) it would in all likelyhood render the entire urban area uninhabitable for possibly up to 1 year. The pumps which already work to protect the city year around would be flooded and thus unusable, thus it would take the water roughly 6 months to recede from the city. After the water receded, every single building would have to be thoroughly inspected before anyone could be allowed to enter it.
I was just looking at this storm on the weather channel (now Cat 5 - 175 mph sustained winds) and damn it’s scary looking. Here’s hoping as many people as possible can get to safety before it strikes.
The radar view shows this thing as bright red almost all the way through. Pretty scary looking.
And the levee could do worse than not keeping the water out – it could keep it in once it gets inside.
They were saying on CNN that not only is this going to interrupt the flow of oil through the Gulf coast ports, but that most of the oil rigs didn’t have time to secure their positions before their crews evacuated and could end up miles from where they’re supposed to be. All of which means higher gas prices, probably as early as tomorrow.
They also read an e-mail from someone who survived two other hurricanes in New Orleans, and he said that more people died from snake bites than anything else. Humans aren’t the only animals who look for high ground when these things hit, and with all that swamp there, things could get kinda hairy.
National Weather Service issues pants-shitting warning for Katrina.
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| DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED HURRICANE KATRINA A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED STRENGTH…RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969. MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS…PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL…LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE…INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE. HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY…A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT. AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD…AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS…PETS…AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK. POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS…AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS. THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING…BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE KILLED. AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR HURRICANE FORCE…OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE…ARE CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS. ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET…DO NOT VENTURE OUTSIDE! LAZ038-040-050-056>070-282100- ASSUMPTION-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON-LOWER LAFOURCHE- LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE-ORLEANS- ST. CHARLES-ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST. TAMMANY-TANGIPAHOA- UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-UPPER ST. BERNARD- UPPER TERREBONNE- 1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 |
Sweet Jesus, that’s harsh.
We evacuated yesterday. Actually drove northbound on I-59 South yesterday. We are staying with family and friends in Starkville, MS.
When I was a kid we got stuck in a category 2 hurricane. That one yanked full grown pine trees out of the ground, roots and all, and tossed them around like nothing. This bitch is a category 5, and I am just getting ready to watch my hometown become a part of Lake Ponchartrain.
My cousin and her husband live in Shreveport, Louisiana. I have no idea if they have evacuated or not because it is in the northern portion of the state. They might get MAJOR flooding though. Hopefully they will be okay. God bless their souls.
I get the horrible feeling that this is going to be like those news stories you see from India or Thailand where a flood kills a few thousand people.
Webcast from a New Orleans TV station. They showed the line of people waiting to get into the Superdome, and I’d sure hate to be at the end of that thing.
And apparently Shepherd Smith of Fox news asked two residents what they were still doing in town and they said, “None of your fucking business” on live TV.
Damn, Werbal, that warning from the National Weather Service is bleak. They might as well have said, “The end is nigh”.
I hope most people have had the common sense to get the hell off of the Gulf Coast. This one looks to be major. God only knows what’s going to happen to New Orleans.