EvolutionSFox Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Holy crap, has anyone heard of this hurricane that just occured? It's suppose to be a class 5 hurricance, the worst and New Orleans is it's main target. People there have evaculated non-stop, I mean, I live in Indiana and we're suppose to get Tropica storms. I LIVE IN THE INLAND. This scares me, especially for New Orleans saftely, I mean they're ALREADY UNDER sea-level... Floods are going to happen everywhere there. I hope noone gets hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Bone Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 oohhh yeah, i have heard all about it. its been on the news a lot. i live in michigan and i have been getting some of the rain from it. i dont see how it would go that far up but thats what the news said it was from. anyway, i hope it clears up soon. thats not cool at all for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Dude. Where have you been, ESF??? It's all about OVER now... unimaginable flooding in New Orleans... And no, you haven't been getting the rain from it, T-Bone. It's not NEARLY that far north yet. ESF should be seeing some good and heavy rain soon though, being in Indiana. Here's my summary of the massive superstorm that was Hurricane Katrina. I've been watching it since JUST BARELY before it hit Florida. XG Fox's Hurricane Katrina debrief *Katrina's first strike Katrina ripped through Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, a relatively weak one, with windspeeds topping out about 80 mph. Relatively light damage ensues, and Floridians get off the hook easy this time. *Complete underestimation Experts then predicted Katrina to turn and follow the west coast of Florida up into the mainland. They were wrong. Katrina turned and headed toward Louisiana and started strengthening, at which point the mayor of New Orleans called for a mandatory evacuation of the city once Katrina hit the classification of a Category 5 hurricane, the highest rating the National Weather Service has EVER had to issue, and quite rarely at that. *>2 days til landfall Traffic was backed up for MILES with people fleeing New Orleans. You could have WALKED faster than those cars were moving. And every second Katrina was drawing closer to the Louisiana coast. Katrina, still a Category 5 hurricane, had reached its maximum windspeed that it attained throughout the entire event, 175 mph sustained winds. *~1 day til landfall The city of New Orleans sets up what they later call the "Shelter of Last Resorts" in the Louisiana Superdome for those unable to escape, wanting to stay and those in poverty. In the end, somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 people stay in the shelter. *HOURS til landfall Some people stayed until the very last second, they didn't feel they had to leave. When they heard how strong the storm had become, they had second thoughts and decided to skip town, mere HOURS before Katrina's eye was due to make landfall. New Orleans records winds at 60+ mph at this point. ***LANDFALL*** Grand Isle, Louisiana, the site of Katrina's landfall: Winds reported at 75+ mph. Katrina's 30 mile wide eye ends up passing to the EAST of New Orleans, most likely saving the city from total devastation. But not before throwing boats, blowing roofs off houses, and bringing in a 15 foot storm surge. With the city of New Orleans lying about 12 feet below sea level protected only by levees, the extreme dounpour of rain and the enormous storm surge overflows the levees and rushes into the city. Catastrophic flooding ensues. Pieces of the Superdome's roof covering are also torn off. *Surveying the damage (>1 day after landfall) The winds have died town a little bit, and Katrina has been degraded to a Category 1 hurricane within hours after making landfall. Some people try to get out and about to survey the damage. What they see horrifies them. Whole city blocks, subdivisions, TOWNS are flooded with up to 9 feet of water in some places. Power lines are down. Water... is everywhere the eye can see. Newscasters reporting about the storm make the point about disease spreading because of the now-standing water, because it has no place to go. A person from a disaster relief organization says they won't be letting anyone back into New Orleans until some of the more serious damage has been alleviated. Aerial video from helicopters show water for as far as you can see. Debris from an unimaginable number of structures lie in the streets, on top of houses, everywhere you can possibly think. *The future of New Orleans New Orleans is in a state of stasis. Many parts of the city will be uninhabitable until conditions are improved. Pumping all of the water out of the city will likely take a month, possibly even longer. Foundations of buildings have very likely been weakened from the enormous amount of water now in the ground around it. The Red Cross is staging the largest disaster relief force ever assembled in the HISTORY of the Red Cross to help with the damage. Any surrounding areas such as Mobile, AL and Biloxi, MS likely experienced major flooding. They area also at a higher elevation, so the water doesn't have to be pumped out, it can just run off into the Gulf of Mexico. But the majority of the flooding was focused on New Orleans due to it's low elevation and it's surrounding bodies of water. Getting electricity restored to New Orleans will be a prime concern. THIS JUST IN: The Superdome will need to either be rebuilt of have the roof redone entirely. Katrina really tore it up a LOT more than I thought. According to Fox News channel, the Superdome's protective membrane on the outside of the roof was severely damaged and torn off during Katrina's assault on New Orleans. Videos were shown of water pouring in through holes in the roof, and water being driven through cracks in the roof because of the extremely high speed winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvolutionSFox Posted August 30, 2005 Author Share Posted August 30, 2005 Thanks XG for the info... ... 50 people have died so far, that's pretty sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Bone Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 wow, nice report on the hurricane XG. thats a lot of info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Oh yeah, and I just saw aerial footage of Biloxi, MS today... DEVASTATION LIKE NONE OTHER. It's all GONE... everything's been leveled... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flaming Leprechaun Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 The damage isn't quite as bad as I thought it would be in NO. Still very bad though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conall Drest Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 All I got to say is wow. I never seen so much destrution in a city like New Orleans and the worst part is most of the people who didnt get out of the city were poor so it seems the people who need dont get and people who have enough get. That makes me mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvolutionSFox Posted September 1, 2005 Author Share Posted September 1, 2005 100 people dead and counting. That's very bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conall Drest Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Just 100? Are you sure? My mom said there were thousands in new orleans dead. She said in missippi there were about 100 dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvolutionSFox Posted September 1, 2005 Author Share Posted September 1, 2005 100 people dead and counting. That's very bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludvig11 Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 It's horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galactic Jaguar Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 People who did survive will not be able to enter the city for months!! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Nox Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Truly tragic, i hope the survivors are able to rebuild their lives and that the sick get better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvolutionSFox Posted September 4, 2005 Author Share Posted September 4, 2005 People who did survive will not be able to enter the city for months!! I know, that's just... uhh... speechless in words because there would be many four-letter ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashster Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 I heard they brought soldiers from Iraq and we're given orders to fire at people caught stealing.... Is that ture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvolutionSFox Posted September 5, 2005 Author Share Posted September 5, 2005 I heard they brought soldiers from Iraq and we're given orders to fire at people caught stealing.... Is that ture? True, people were caught looting buildings and eachother, armed with guns and they were targeting the helicopters with the guns. They were firing at the helicopters so they could steal them and ride off with them, I'm being serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashster Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 holy shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvolutionSFox Posted September 5, 2005 Author Share Posted September 5, 2005 It really looks like Americans are hopeless at this point, taking advantage of eachother during a horrible crisis that's taken so many lives... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludvig11 Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 We had a Huge natural catastrophe in Sweden too, for some month ago, where 10 years of forestcutting got destroyed, many forest-owners took suicide.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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