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Scary thought for New Orleans:


Well, we know Gustav will hit Louisiana or Texas (most likely Texas right now) but New Orleans will get some heavy rain bands for certain and that city is still **** up from 3 years ago.
Gustav is looking to be a hefty Category 3 by the time it reaches landfall.
59 people dead already in Cuba and Hispaniola from Gustav.

Meanwhile here in Florida (after a week of Fay's heavy rains that have killed 11 people), I've got Tropical Storm Hannah (soon to be a hurricane) that's bearing on Florida at a sluggish pace.
This one has potential to be even bigger than Gustav and from what I'm seeing, it may be a Katrina clone where it'll strike Florida between Orlando and Miami at around a Cat. 1 and then strengthen as soon as it hits the Gulf Coast and supposedly strike the Louisiana area at much higher winds.

Then behind Hannah there are two more systems that are projected to become hurricanes.
And then there's that awkward system just sticking around in the Caribbean just above Mexico.

damn global warming

This is scary as sh*t if you ask me...

As much for us as for New Orleans... Well maybe not as much as were not several feet under water.

Yeah i read an article somewhere that the levees that were breached are only partially rebuilt and that they still have people living in trailers and that they need to evacuate asap

That is damn near scary for the city of New Orleans. . .

UCFknight84 wrote:damn global warming

I watched Al Gore's "An inconvenient truth" yesterday, actually. I never knew there was that big a connection between the hurricanes and global warming.

Scary thought... Thinking about it, it really really pisses me off that George Bush became president over this guy.

AgEnT50 wrote:That is damn near scary for the city of New Orleans. . .

Agreed

I'm supposed to fly into Orlando on Thursday night. Any chance this could screw with me? Anyone know what were the delays like during Fay?

you should be good as long as gustav doesnt chang paths down our throats.
I actually in a sick way like these small storms i have thrown some great hurricane parties.
I sell RVs for a living so it does suck for work though, but i can always take one home!

I had my flight from Orlando to Charlotte canceled due to T.S. Fay. The cancellation turned out to be totally unnecessary, but the airlines justifiably tend to err on the side of caution where major storm systems are concerned.

So if anyone needs a cheap trailer to stay in for crazy weather let me know.

http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.a ... &article=4

impact of damage will be west of where Katrina made landfall


Gustav is fast becoming a very dangerous hurricane. Over open water now, the storm will enrich itself with heat energy stored in the ocean. The intensification process could happen very fast with sustained winds climbing past 115 miles per hour Saturday. That would make it a potent Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. When storms like this get in the right place they go crazy, just like Katrina and Rita did three years ago. That's not saying this storm will achieve the same magnitude as those two brutes, but Gustav could reach Category 5 for a time once it's over the central Gulf.

Gustav is going to hit extreme western Cuba hard this weekend, then strike the central Gulf Coast early next week. Right now, we feel ground zero is central Louisiana, which is somewhat farther west of where Katrina made landfall.

This has all the makings of another disaster

With all due respect ot New Orleans the storm that has me concerned is Hanna. Its projectd to just be meandering around off the coast of Florida. those are the ones that tend to hit us more than once.

maginno wrote:With all due respect ot New Orleans the storm that has me concerned is Hanna. Its projectd to just be meandering around off the coast of Florida. those are the ones that tend to hit us more than once.

Yeah, and right now it's projected to hit exactly where I live.

The Ultimate Disaster
http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blog ... saster.asp

In any case, the fact that we have two storms that will hit the United States could be the ultimate disaster for this country. Gustav, as we all know by now, is coming and will hit somewhere in Louisiana as at least a Cat 2 with potential for Cat 4. I think that the central Louisiana coast is more likely to get hit by Gustav than the New Orleans area.

The real concern that I have, and I have shown that on the image below, is the double hit, by first Gustav, then Hanna, on the Gulf Coast, followed by the flood threats into the Ohio Valley. The image posted below shows the areas of threats for next week given the tracks of both storms. This is not a very good scenario for our country. First, Gustav will hit and cause major damage, followed by serious flooding, then Hanna will come along and hit the Gulf Coast as a major hurricane, followed by serious flooding. And that might not be the end. We still have another wave coming off Africa that,

speaking with Joe Bastardi, could be a concern for the East Coast in two weeks.

How nice i live on the east coast

tjm384 wrote:The Ultimate Disaster
http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blog ... saster.asp

In any case, the fact that we have two storms that will hit the United States could be the ultimate disaster for this country. Gustav, as we all know by now, is coming and will hit somewhere in Louisiana as at least a Cat 2 with potential for Cat 4. I think that the central Louisiana coast is more likely to get hit by Gustav than the New Orleans area.

The real concern that I have, and I have shown that on the image below, is the double hit, by first Gustav, then Hanna, on the Gulf Coast, followed by the flood threats into the Ohio Valley. The image posted below shows the areas of threats for next week given the tracks of both storms. This is not a very good scenario for our country. First, Gustav will hit and cause major damage, followed by serious flooding, then Hanna will come along and hit the Gulf Coast as a major hurricane, followed by serious flooding. And that might not be the end. We still have another wave coming off Africa that,

speaking with Joe Bastardi, could be a concern for the East Coast in two weeks.

How nice i live on the east coast

I just watched CNN and now they are saying that Gustav could strengthen to a Cat 5 the odds of that are about 40%. That's too high for me. Though if you listen to the Weather Channel there is a chance that the storm could get close to the coast and then stop.
Hannah is another totally different story though right now they are not talking about that storm as much because of Gustav, but because of steering winds that could affect Gustav would then steer Hannah away from FL, but if Gustav push's that front back then Hannah would hit FL.
There are a lot of could be's and maybe's in all of those reports.
So here is crossing your fingers.
Oh yea two more storms further out that could threaten the US. The only good news is that previous storms make storms following the same course would be weaker because the storms before stir up the waters making it harder for storms to get stronger it just depends on how much further behind these two those other storms are.
Sounds like you need to change this thread to Batten down the Hatch's Part II

Well from the looks of things New Orleans, and those affected by Gustav seem to have gotten lucky. The levee's that they reinforced seemed to do the job. Still obvious damage from a Cat-2, Cat-3 storm, however, they lucked out by not getting a replay of 2005 with Katrina.

Hanna, seems like it'll spare the Gulf Coast, but us in Florida, those in the Carolinas and Georgia need to keep an eye out over the next couple days. It could be another Cat-2 or higher storm. And with Ike following Hanna, We might see 3 Hurricanes hit the States in a 2 week period.

Made luck and prayers be with anyone involved in Gustav and those 2 more out there.

anyone else getting a 2004 feeling with this? That was the year we had 3 hurricanes (including Charlie) hit and all of them basically went through Central Florida, and if I remember correctly they were about 2 weeks apart each.

If Hanna hits FL, and then Ike follows her, we could have 3 hit Central Florida within the span of two months.

Ugh.

I got this really bad feeling about Ike. Really bad. Like Cat 4 feeling and A central or south florida land fall. I usually ride it out but if it heads toward south Florida I am getting out of Dodge.

I get that feelin Jay, however, in 2004 weren't they all Hurricanes that hit? I'm not too sure. I left for Iraq shortly after Charley and I lived in Southwest Florida at the time. This year Fay was a TS, and brought moderate wind with alot of rain. I don't believe Ike will have any effect on Central to Northern Florida, unless it hits mid-Southwest Florida coming in on the Miami/Fort Lauderdale heading across the state to Fort Myers/Punta Gorda area, because it could be a big storm by the time it hits... I think Hanna will be our only real threat so far, however.. HEY theres that new one that's expected to turn to TS Josephine at any time.. lol. Gotta love living in Florida along with the rest of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast States.