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Originally posted by Boris Godunov
100,000 are left in the city?!
Sweet jesus, they're estimating a 30-foot storm surge and 80% of the city being under 20 feet of water come tomorrow night. |
actually there are more like 300,000, according to WLLTV New Orleans
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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
time: 00:37
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so set him up,
then let him fall.
turn him over in your hands.
god save the king of new orleans.
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of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:37
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Dangerous Hurricane Katrina set to make landfall
1:33 a.m. ET 8/29/2005
M. Newman and C. Dolce, Meteorologists, The Weather Channel
Hurricane Katrina remains a powerful Category 5 hurricane -- top winds are 160 mph. Katrina is a large hurricane with hurricane-force winds extending 105 miles from the center and tropical storm-force winds extending up to 230 miles from the center. Katrina continues to move towards the north-northwest at 10 mph with a turn to the north expected tonight. As of 12:00 a.m. CDT, winds have gusted as high as 98 mph in Southwest Pass, La. which located in the extreme southeastern tip of state. In New Orleans, the lake front observation has reported wind gusts over 60 mph.
The pressure dropped as low as 902 mb this afternoon but has risen to 908 mb as of 12 p.m. CDT. The 902 mb pressure reading was the 4th lowest on record in the Atlantic Basin. Stu Ostro explains the significance of pressure from his blog posted earlier today..."We look at pressures as a good barometer (pun intended) for intensity. The difference in pressure from one location to another, known as the pressure gradient, is associated with wind speed. There are other factors involved, but basically, the greater the pressure gradient in hurricanes, typically the higher the wind speed."
Everyone along the northern Gulf of Mexico should listen to local emergency management officials for instructions. 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.
Although conditions are already deteriorating tonight, places such as New Orleans, La. and Biloxi, Miss. can expect to see the maximum impacts from Katrina on Monday morning and afternoon. Areas further inland such as Meridian, Miss. and Jackson, Miss. should see their maximum impacts by mid-afternoon and through the evening on Monday.
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.
Elsewhere, there are two areas of low pressure in the central Atlantic. The first area of low pressure became Tropical Depression Thirteen at 5 p.m. EDT on Sunday. Currently, it is located about 875 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and is expected to pass well north of the islands.
The other area of interest is a low pressure system that has just come off the African coast. This system also has the potential to develop into a tropical depression over the next couple of days.
In the northwest Pacific Talim has become a typhoon and is forecast to grow to a 120 mph typhoon before moving across Taiwan and into mainland China in the next 3 to 4 days.
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I'm pretty sure that is projected, the hurrican isn't supposed to reach landfall until 8am CDT monday
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quote:
Originally posted by Gatekeeper
Yeah, I read that at work. Frickin' insane, I tell ya.
He said if he was going to die, it would be better to die with a cold beer in his hands, or something like that. *snort* Nothing against beer, but if I were him, I'd rather hole up in the Superdome and enjoy a nice, cold brewski later in the week once this storm's blown by.
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without power, I doubt there is going to be much cold beer laying about for the drinking.
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is one way of saying it, though I prefer "mensch"
Sep 2000
time: 07:37
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This seems as good a place as any to post these lyrics. It's a Randy Newman song, but the best version of it was recorded by a son of the Crescent City, Aaron Neville.
quote:
Louisiana 1927
(Randy Newman)
What has happened down here, is the winds have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
It rained real hard, and it rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
The river rose all day, the river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood, some people got away alright
The river had busted through clear down to Placker Mine
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
Oh Louisiana, Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
President Coolidge come down, in a railroad train
With his little fat man with a note pad in his hand
President say "little fat man, oh isn't it a shame,
What the river has done to this poor farmer's land"
Oh Louisiana, Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, you're trying to wash us away
Oh Louisiana, oh Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, oh Lord, they're trying to wash us away
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away |
I rang in the Millenial New Year in New Orleans; ate at Commander's Palace for the first and only time on the same trip. God, I hope the dire predictions are wrong. 
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Edan
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Just heard that Katrina has weakened to a CAT 4 hurricane, but still very serious.
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of the frozen North.
Apr 1999
time: 22:37
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From the Tragically Hip:
New Orleans Is Sinking Lyrics
quote:
Alright!
Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete
Under skies all smoky blue green
I can't forsake a dixie dead shake
So we danced the sidewalk clean
My memory is muddy
What's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking man
And I don't wanna swim
Colonel Tom, what's wrong? what's going on?
You can't tie yourself up for a deal
He said, Hey north you're south shut your big mouth,
You gotta do what you feel is real
Ain't got no picture postcards, ain't got no souvenirs
My baby, she don't know me when I'm thinking bout those years
Pale as a light bulb hanging on a wire
Sucking up to someone just to stoke the fire
Picking out the highlights of the scenery
Saw a little cloud that looked a little like me
I had my hands in the river
My feet back up on the banks
Looked up to the lord above
And said, hey man thanks
Sometimes I fell so good, I gotta scream
She said Gordie baby I know exactly what you mean
She said, she said, I swear to god she said
My memory is muddy
What's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim
Swim!
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