Posted: 8/31/2008 8:35:21 AM EDT
| Well? Do you think it will hit New Orleans? & is it really the storm of the Century? |
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Here's a great site to track the hurricanes.... www.stormpulse.com/ |
The NorthEast side of a hurricane is the worst, generally with the fastest winds and the most rain. Look at the counter-clockwise motion. In contrast, the SouthWest side has lesser winds and rain. Sort of the "leeward" side of the storm. LC |
Storm surge is pushed northward on the NE quadrant of a hurricane because of the south winds...that would not be good for a city below sea level. |
WHo CARES! Dont live there! Its BELOW SEA LEVEL!  Just let them destroy their city again - if this storm hits! We forget alot of things- The RAPES , Robberies & Beatings in the DOME! & all that MONEY we allow to be pumped in to that city! I do not recall any Great Plains Towns , Cities or states begging for money when the blizzards hit or the floods hit the midwest! Different lifestyle I guess!
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It is actually the leading right quadrant that is the strongest. Of course if a storm is heading north, it will be the NE quadrant. |
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My friend lives just off Mobile Bay on the West side. They nearly took a direct hit from Ivan which hit the East side of Mobile Bay. His house didn't get flooded at all. Katrina struck West of Mobile Bay by 90 miles or so and his house got flooded by the storm surge. New Orleans is in a bad location for this storm. |
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I don't wish any harm on the people caught in the storm. I think anyone who willfully chooses to continue living below sea level is crazy and should take RESPONSIBILITY for their CHOICES. City officials need to be held accountable for their actions as well. I could care less if NOLA was wiped off the map - rebuilding is an exercise in defeat.  I think Hurricane Katrina killed 1,800 people. Not everyone can just pack up and go - I'm sure there are elderly who have no where else to go. There is a humanitarian responsibility to take care of our countrymen. There is no obligation to rebuild a city which keeps getting destroyed. Good grief.  Accountability and personal responsibility. Wild concepts that someone like Mayor Nagin will never grasp. Silly liberals. |
You wouldn't love him if you were aware of all the other things he's said in the last three years since Katrina. -- John |
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According to that animation it's losing power... |
Nope not at all I feel that GOD is trying to tell them something. The people in New Orleans have really made him mad and he is going to keep throwing Hurricanes at them until they stop re-building and re locate to another place. That's just my opinion though. That is all. |
Here's a better look......it don't look good for NO. Gustave is much wider than Katrina was. Gustav |
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I don't understand the 1 P.M. landfall prediction when the center is moving at 18 MPH and is 215 miles SSE of the MS river moving NW. That's 12 hours to landfall not 21 or ~ 0100 tonight. Speed would have to average 10 to 12 MPH to be 1300 hours landfall tomorrow. If the 18MPH/215 miles is correct link. those who expect to leave in the morning after curfew may have a planeless flight out! |
Wideness doesn't factor in when they're both basically hitting it dead on. Katrina was a Cat 5 at this point before it hit. |
That animation auto-updates, as of the last reading (36min ago) the wind was down to 115mph, from 150 (C4) earlier. looks like it will go down to a Cat2 soon. Almost looks at the rate it is petering out it could only hit as a cat 1.... |
He will be just your average, run of the mill hurricane. |
Yep, nothing like Katrina, which took a similar path but grew from a Cat1 to a Cat5 in like 24 hours and was for all intents and purposes a "perfect storm"... Gustav has been weakening from a cat 4 on the other hand. |
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The last report I just saw was that it was to remain a CAT3. Its picked up speed (now 18mph) and the expected landfall is now early tomorrow morning. No one will know what this storm will be or what it might do until then. The science is not exact. Good luck who ever is staying and you have my prayers. |
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