Category 5 Hurricane heading for New Orleans
 

Is anybody else keeping up with Hurricane Katrina? I've been glued to CNN all morning. It's HUGE! Winds are between 150-180mph. It could be the worst in U.S. history since 1935. If it stays on course, New Orleans could take a devastating hit and be under 12-15ft of water. The Mayor has mandated that everyone evacuate the city. It's supposed to hit early Monday morning. This will have an impact on everyone in the U.S. as well. A third of all domestic oil comes thru the port of New Orleans.

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Damn, that is not good. I feel bad for whoever this effects =/ I cant watch much CNN. Maybe I will just take a peak at the TV because maybe I dont know how bad it is !!

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Yep, I feel for everyone there. Generally they have evacuation centers at the football stadiums but for this huge hurricane they don't even want people to go there. It's only a last resort center. If you know New Orleans, it's basically in a valley with the Mississippi river on one side and Lake Pontchartrain on the other side. The entire city would be under water. I remember back in 1992 I think it was when Andrew hit Florida and how bad that was. This would be worse than Andrew!

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That's a nice .gif showing the path and how far inland this thing will go.

N.O. is 6ft. UNDER sea level. They're raising scenario questions like, "Is this it for New Orleans?"

They are calling this a 1 in 500 year historic event. No city is a good city for something like this to hit, but N.O. is definately not a good city for this to happen.

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It will be really bad. I saw something on one of those Discovery/TLC channels about this really happenning and how bad it could be. New Orleans is nothing but a "bowl" in the ground. Every time it rains they have to pump the drainage water out of the city because it sits so low.

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Hey 1Viscious- you probably saw the same program i did. It was a few months back or so. It was a Movie/documentary thing. This is so weird because what is happening today and what is coming into New Orleans is exactly what was portrayed in the movie. Because of the way the city is, they've dreaded this moment for years.

PS- Didn't gas go upto $6-7/gallon in the movie because the port was destroyed?

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I don't remember the gas issue, all I remember is that it will be a bad situation. :(

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Yeah lets hope there is no loss of life in this one. The Hurricane is a big issue but the storm surge is an entire issue of its own. Could surge to 20ft!

I'll be up all night watching this when it hits. Too bad i gotta work in the morning.

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Is your car on high ground?

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Too late for that, at least 7 dead in Florida already.

On another note, work is going to be a living hell for me since I work at an alarm company.

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Jana agrees with ya CVD. have fun ;)

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Storm surge is predicted to be 28 feet when I read the news earlier today.

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YOu know, when we get a foot of snow someone down there will make a post on a car forum saying how bad we have it at that point. ;)

I saw on the tv yesterday some of those 8 lane highways (4 lanes each way) where both open for traffic headed NORTH!

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High ground in Florida inside my garage. ;)

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Jakey must have forgot that you moved Mike! I bet you are happy about that now!!

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Yes and no, my house in Baton Rouge is sold and we were supposed to close tomorrow, Monday the 29th. :eek: I hope there is no damage to it or I'm screwed like Allan in the movie "Deliverance", suuueeeee!!! :p

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How far is Baton Rouge from N.O.? And is it east or west of it? You realize they are talking total devastation, right? This is due to N.O. being surrounded by water.

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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.


I have a hard time worrying about it, weathercasters are notoriously overdramatic

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Well i hope for the citizens of LA, MS and other surrounding states that it's overdramatic. I don't possibly see how though. This thing is at 160mph and gusting to 190mph right now. It's 105miles wide on EACH side of the eye. It's not gonna disappear. It's only moving at about 12mph north. The damage will be huge. Other than Andrew in 1992, I wasn't even alive when a Hurricane was at this magnitude.