« Kudos to the little Cajuns | Main | Wow, Katrina traffic! »
August 27, 2005
Hurricane Katrina
So, she's now a class 3 and still hasn't decided where she's going. I've been watching the computer models and 5-day forecasts on the net since Thursday and I'm solidly convinced that they don't have a clue what this storm is going to do. Right now, it's supposed to make landfall on Monday morning south of New Orleans. New Orleans...wow, what if a strong hurricane hit New Orleans? Can you say "Tear it all down and start over"? I've been hearing for years that eventually, N.O. is going to get hit by a BIG one and it will be it's demise. For those of you that don't know, New Orleans is built like a big saucer and sits below sea level. When it rains in New Orleans, it takes hundreds(over a thousand actually) of pumps to get the rainwater out of the city. Well, a storm surge by a slow moving category 3 or above will potentially "pick up" the water from Lake Pontchatrain and the Mississippi River, carry it over the seawalls and drop it inside the city. This would put all of the pumps underwater and shut them down. Now, no water gets out and the city literally fills up like a huge bathtub. I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in that city, but I wish this on nobody. I hope it doesn't happen.
Posted by james at August 27, 2005 06:59 AM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://nolablogs.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1517
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Hurricane Katrina:
Comments
My SIL and her family are making their way to my in-laws at Lake Martin in AL right now. They live in Madisonville across Lake Pontchatrain. Hope it loses strength.
Posted by: mrscrumley at August 27, 2005 05:05 PM
Are you gonna evacuate?
Posted by: Jim at August 27, 2005 07:41 PM
We are waiting until tomorrow afternoon. If it shifts west another 50 or so miles, we're outta here. If not, we will ride out the 40 mph winds will get from it hitting New Orleans.
Posted by: SonofThunder at August 27, 2005 10:48 PM
What might be a problem is gettin home from church tomorrow. We were in South Laf tonight and when we got to the Thruway at Kal Sal traffic was jammed with evacuees from the south and east. We took University to Pont des Mouton and cut across and it was ok from there.
Posted by: GumboFilé at August 27, 2005 10:55 PM
Camille in 1969 got down to 905 mb. That was one of the lowest pressures ever. Katrina is now at 908 mb.
Posted by: GumboFilé at August 28, 2005 08:10 AM
Whoops. 902 mb...whoa!
Posted by: SonofThunder at August 28, 2005 04:19 PM