Category 5 Hurricane heading for New Orleans

[1ViciousGSX]

Baton Rouge is about 1 hr NW of New Orleans.

[Jakey]

Jakey must have forgot that you moved Mike!

Nah, just thought the White Whale was still back in Louisiana.

[JET]

I think this is going to be pretty devastating. I will have to turn on CNN when I get to work tomorrow morning.

[dumb_ricer]

They are saying it is very slightly losing strength, lets hope it happens fast enough.

[Onefast99gsx]

Hurricanes generally lose strength as they go over land because they depend on the warm water below to build/maintain their power. Sounds like this was downgraded to Cat4 just before it hit land this morning. So far it's on the high end of Cat4.

[Outlaw1]

This is gonna be a bad one. All we can do is hope for the best for those families that will lose their homes.

[Jakey]

Fox news just finished talking to a reporter who is hopping from roof top to roof top through downtown New Orleans. He said he is seeing water so high that U-Hauls are virtually covered. :eek:

[Onefast99gsx]

Watching Larry King Live tonight on CNN. They say it didn't hit New Orleans as bad as they anticipated BUT did anyone see the latest video releases??? It's worse than i thought it would be. Total Shock and Awe! Anywhere from $9 to 16 billion in damage and that doesn't even include home flood damage. As an estimate, they generally multiple the above numbers x2. This ranks as one of the costliest storms ever.

[curt_gendron]

New Orleans is still really hurting today. Levees keep breaking and the water keeps rising. Looks like half of the city is under water.

Can you imagine how many peoples homes are flooded. Damn.

[Onefast99gsx]

I was watching at lunch and Krya Phillips was being told by another reporter that someone in the Superdome jumped from the 2nd balcony and committed suicide. It's hot in there without a/c, people are uptight, the facilities are overflowing. This is by far worse than the World trade center incident. The only difference was one was terror inflicted and the other mother nature. If you haven't watched some of it, you can't imagine some of the stories. A man was holding on to his wife in the rushing currents and had all he could do to hold on anymore and the last thing she told him was to take care of their 2 boys and floated off to die.