Yikes!! Just saw weatherchannel.com report for alot of rain over next few days here in Palm Beach County...
Glad I have that giant red umbrella I got over in Amsterdam...

Hopefully she won't give us strong winds; we lose power pretty easy on my grid.

There were actually gas lines this afternoon and people hoarding as much junk food they could fit in their carts at the Publixsss

Anyone else getting prepared?

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I am watching her as well. The current track keeps her about 200 miles away from my spot in a broad arc. I am more concerned with the thing whipping back from the Gulf of Mexico if it regenerates out there. But after 3 storms last year, most anything that could have happened around here has ALREADY happened. As long as we don't get anything stronger than 100MPH, that is....

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It's gonna be a lot of rain, much like Emily was earlier thi syear. And the hassles that accompany it.

Will be drinking some Warsteiner thru it....

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Where is Ladelluftkuhler- Stadt????

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Katrina, part II, looks like she is really serious this time.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/205300.shtml?3day

http://www.hurricanecity.com/

I live in earthquake country, so maybe I am not one to talk about natural disasters. But with a quake you get 45 seconds of rocking and rolling and then it is like WHOA DUDE!

Hurricanes, that's another trip altogether. Ten feet of water coming through your front window, your Benz gets blown over to the next county (or it floats there) and your neighbor's palm trees ends up in your upstairs bedroom.

I lived in Cuba (major hurricane magnet) and South Florida (major, major hurricane magnet) and I gotta tell you.

I'll take one strong quake every ten years or so (or even the potential tsunami) over 3 or 4 hurricanes per year.

Having said that, and being serious now, I feel bad for the loss of life and property. Hope all returns to normal and sunny real soon.

Good luck you guys.

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Not in this weather!

If Katrina comes ashore near New Orleans and as strongly as they predict, the destruction of 9-11 will seem like a walk in the park. Sustained winds of 170 mph plus will demolish every wooden structure in New Orleans, topple highrises, and leave the city in 15-20 feet of water. Hopefully the loss of life will be minimal.
Scary times were living in! Maybe the global warming proponents are on to something - then again, maybe not and the number of hurricanes this season have nothing to do with it.

The news channel said if there was such a category as 6, then Katrina would fall under that category. In fact, I had to go to a funeral yesterday, and there was supposed to be a resolution made by a representative from an organization the deceased was affiliated with. Well, the representative had to turn around in Orange TX, (on TX/LA border about 110 miles from Houston)
because there were orders to evacuate New Orleans, so they had to drive all the way back and pack up. I knew Katrina was on course for New Orleans, but I did not know at the time that the hurricane was so intense.
I remember back when we had cable television a television special aired on the Discovery Channel about Hurricanes, and they presented this scenario... A category 5 hurricane making a direct hit on New Orleans, and the destruction was devastating. Lake Pontchartrain would overflow its banks, and flood the city of New Orleans, the French Quarter would be underwater. For those of you who don't already know, New Orleans is a bowl shaped city, the flooding from the rain, and the overflow of the lake is going to be unimagineable, and I think it might be one of the worst natural disasters to hit Louisiana. So, ya'll, pray for and keep the thoughts of the city of New Orleans, the people who made it out, and for those who can't leave. I imagine that hotels on I-10 in places like Beaumont/Port Arthur, Winnie, Baytown, Houston, Orange, maybe even San Antonio? will be filled with evacuees.
-Joe

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The track of and the second landfall for Katrina depends on a continued weakening of an upper ridge of high pressure over the Southeast, a digging upper-level trough of low pressure over the Midwest and a building ridge of high pressure east of Florida. These three factors will combine to steer Katrina on a northwest and eventually northerly track Sunday into Monday morning. The most recent computer models show a consensus track over southeastern Louisiana. Our latest thinking is that Katrina will make landfall Monday morning over extreme southeastern Louisiana. Conditions are already deteriorating along the Mississippi delta well ahead of the storm, with tropical storm-force winds. Hurricane-force winds will reach the coast Sunday night then spread north. The winds will be strong enough to down not only trees and power lines but also bring down structures and make missiles out of objects that are not tied down. As the storm nears the coast Monday, a devastating storm surge will be pushed into the lower Mississippi Delta as the powerful southeasterly winds pile water into the area. The storm will also bring flooding rain well inland and the risk for tornadoes north and east of the path of the center.

If you were planning on staying and ride it out, If this isn't enough to change your mind about leaving, you must be committing suicide!

Wave heights at buoy 42040 are at 28 ft. Winds steady at 31 kts gusts to 38 kts. Buoy 28040 is due east of the Misssissippi River and due south of Pascagoula, MS. You should see the graphs, OMG!

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How about a canon?

My mom and her visiting sister from Europe made year-long plans for a Mississippi River boat tour thats supposed to happen on Sept 12. Something tells me they may not be going.

I hope everyone there finds safety and Katrina somehow avoids causing a lot of destruction.

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Hang on Botnst! Looks like we are in for a BLOW

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You'll be getting a Category 1 this afternoon, right? Whodda thunk it, in lil ol' Brandon.

The storm will probably be much worse for you and for teh folks in Hattiesburg and Meridian. My friends in Picayune have mostly evacuated. One who runs a steel mill in Slidell (Pearl River) has stayed. His wife is a nurse and is standing by for after the storm passes to help with ER triage in Slidell.