Local fox news showing some chilling images of the industrial canal...it is completely full and spilling over, but the walls are holding. Just a scary sight though.
One of the reporters that is actually in New Orleans said that but after they came back from commercial break the home anchor corrected him.
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/hurricanes/gustav/ Hats off the hurricane center: they nailed the forecast Now that Hurricane Gustav has come ashore near Cocodrie, La., it's time to assess the performance of the National Hurricane Center. Here's their five-day forecast for Gustav from Wednesday morning: The average error for a five-day forecast is more than double the 120 statute miles they were off by. Moreover, their intensity forecast at five days out called for a 115-mph hurricane at landfall, and it came in at 110 mph. That's incredible. The hurricane center gets beaten up when it misses on forecasts, so it's only fair they should get credit when they absolutely nail one. In fact, during the last four days prior to landfall, the hurricane center did an exceptional job of keeping the forecast point of landfall on central Louisiana. What do I mean? Take a look at the computer model runs from midday Friday: The average among most of the major dynamical models clearly points at least as far westward as the Texas-Louisiana border. So what did the hurricane center do? All the forecasters did that afternoon was put out a projection that pretty much nailed this morning's landfall: In an earlier e-mail to me, senior hurricane specialist Rick Knabb explained his rationale at the time. He was right. Forecasting hurricanes is really difficult work. There are large errors involved. Our forecasts aren't yet precise enough, so we have to evacuate large areas of coastline. (Sorry Beaumont and Port Arthur, there was no need for you to leave this time). But in the end I find it amazing that, when Gustav was just a 60-mph tropical storm bouncing around Haiti's mountains, we could predict where it would be 120 hours later with such precision Finally, the season's ninth tropical depression has formed and it may ultimately threaten the United States. There's lots of other tropical activity elsewhere, too, and I'll have a full update today shortly after noon.
Better predictions and practiced responses is the best antidote to Katrina-like disasters. You can't do anything about Mother Nature but it's great to be able to get people out of her way. Government can do things, the people just need to require them to do it well.
As every hurricane that is ever heading towards Houston until the end of time. Why in the world people trip out about these I have no ****ing idea, it's hilarious. Operation Nuke New Orleans is underway
Hats off ? The hurricane barely had the power to blow leaves off a tree much less a hat off someones head. Another over hyped, sensational, rating grabbing Charlie Foxtrot -- and -- they badly missed on the intensity of the storm. If you look back -- since the great 1900 storm in Galveston forecasting is not that much better -- now we just have the pretty satellite views.
Live TV feed last night on that link... http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/gustav.html Two stations reported it...
According to that article, they predicted landfall at 115mph, and it hit at 110. That's not too bad a miss.
