You're right JVG, they are different. What I posted is from a government run site so I guess it's my fault in assuming they wouldn't allow BS to be posted on their site, but maybe so. You can click on links from that article to display other alerts related to the storm. Oh well, it doesn't matter. I was just passing along information, not "posting fake links" as you said.
Possible good news..... According tho the NO Times Picayune and the NHC, the storm has weakened to 160 mph and has shifted slightly to the east. They didnt say where the storm was targeted to hit....but still had the sme grim tone other reports had, so I'm assuming the NO metro area is till in its path. Can anyone shed more light on this?
Here's a link to a stream of a local tv affiliate in New Orleans. http://www.wwltv.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/m...laylist.pl?title=beloint_khou&live=yes
Going by the reports and studies I read last year during the buildup for Ivan, I would say that the media is in no way exaggerating the severity of this storm. If anything, they are understating it. IMO, there is no excuse for tens of thousands of residents to still be stuck inside the bowl. The govt. should have done more to get everybody out. Load everyone into train cars and ship them out to safer ground if that is what it took. Expecting every person to use their own transportation and cause vehicle gridlock is just ludicrous. With the 36 hours advance notice that we've had, there is simply no excuse in the most powerful country on earth for the major loss of life that is likely to take place now.
Looking at radar, the storm is moving just barely west of north on a northerly track. It is directly south of the mouth of the Mississippi River and a portion of the eye will likely cross directly over New Orleans. It is possible the storm will weaken to a cat 4 before making landfall, but it is is so large now, it won't make much difference at this point. The difference will only be nominal when you get close to the eye wall which is nearly 100 miles across.
I'm gonna have trouble sleeping tonight just because I want to stay up to see what this monster does.
I heard 184mph in the middle of the day....although I don't know if they meant just gusts or actual sustained winds.....I believe it was the latter..
GOOD NEWS.... Per WWL TV's reports via internet stream....via link provided by Harrisment The storm is now expected to take a turn to the north, putting the worst of the strom away from the NO metro area. Hopefully there expectations are correct......
This is what I don't understand either. Seems in America, there is no public transportation other than airplanes. A few school buses will make the highway traffic much better and I am sure there are hundreds and thousands are driving to the same or close places.
I hear there is a major accident involving an 18 wheeler on I-10. There are approximately 15,000 cars stuck behind the accident.
Yeah, I think it's looked like that for a while though from what I've been watching. They may avoid the dirtiest part of the storm, but regardless I think it will be devestating to the city.
They just showed some more live shots of the roads that were bumber to bumber and now there are only a few cars driving by. Edit: You're talking about outside of NO?
Sad to report.....the first deaths attributed to Katrina have been reported. Three ederly people at a nursing home trying to evacute in . No word on how they died. RIP. Three N.O. nursing home patients die in evacuation 11:42 PM CDT on Sunday, August 28, 2005 BATON ROUGE, La. -- An official with the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner's Office says three residents of a New Orleans nursing home fleeing Hurricane Katrina aboard a school bus died today (Sunday) during an evacuation to a Baton Rouge church. The names, ages and sexes of the dead were not available. Don Moreau, chief of operations, says the coroner's office responded to a call from emergency medical technicians to a Baptist church, which was the destination for the bus of nursing home patients. Once there, Moreau says one person was dead inside the church and another was found dead inside the bus. He says the person in the bus appeared to have been dead for some time. Moreau says the others on the bus, 21 people, were transported to Earl K- Long Hospital, where a third nursing home resident later died. The coroner's office has not determined a cause of death for any of the three. However, Moreau says many people on the bus were suffering from dehydration. It is not known how long the bus was on the road, but many other travelers reported drive times from the New Orleans area to Baton Rouge of several hours. Moreau would not name the nursing home or the church in which it sought refuge from the oncoming storm. The deaths come almost a year after two nursing home residents died during an evacuation of a nursing home for Hurricane Ivan. (Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Coast Guard had to rescue 13 surfers from surfside, tx beach. Looks like the storm is going east of NO, why was everyone saying it was going to go west? Mississippi is going to get slammed.
