Just Like Andrew, Floridians Not Prepared

New Orleans is toast by the looks of that photo

 

I didn't see it on the NWS site.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lix/

 

I hate those NWS bulletins. We get them all the time for thunder storms here in Kansas. They are always the worst case scenario, I sometimes think to CYA. We got a TRW warning tonight for large hail and damaging winds and all we got was a gust front without a single drop of water. You gotta suspect something is amiss when "all gable roofs will fail" or "all low rise wood apartments will fail" "Certain death" NWS has always been a chicken little. Not to belittle the fact that New Orleans is going to get a real street cleaning, but when you use words like all and certain, with a storm that is packing the punch of a F3 tornado, I feel is going a little overboard with the scare tactics!

 

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway/
66, it has 902 mb barometric pressure at the eye, and sustained winds of 160 MPH. It has 100 MPH winds 100 miles from the eye. When it makes landfall in about eight hours, at its present 315 degree 11 mph course, it will be one of the four biggest to ever hit the US.
Long range radar.
http://radar.weather.gov/radar/latest/DS.p20-r/si.klix.shtml

 

Oh, not saying it won't scrub the puke stains off burbon street, just hate the NWS's maximum devistation forcast as if that is exactly how it will happen. Went back and re-read it again and found the "all livestock exposed to the wind will die" Yet, all wood framed buildings will be destroyed! I can guarantee you that tomorrow when this thing passes through, within hours, you will see birds flying around.

 

Sorry for the delay on this one....

here it is.... http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KLIX/0508281550.wwus74.html

 

One more link for you guys..... graphic loop on Katrina

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-ir4-loop.html

 

one more.... this one is going to bad .... maybe for alot of us....

 

One more....