Hurricane Ivan - Rut-roh!

[ak_powder_monkey]

Originally posted by Sublime
Why the fuck would anybody live IN AK?

I don't know and its pissing me off everyone needs to freaking leave




But seriously the highest point in florida is what? 285 feet ASL sounds like hell to me





I just wish there were that many sig storms lined up in the south pacific they all seem to end up here dropping a ton of precip and most imortaly pacific storms end up missing land all together a lot of the time

[Benny Profane]

As of now, the sixth strongest storm ever recorded in this part of the world.

Castro's probably pissed 'cause his baseball viewing will be disrupted. Wonder if he's a Janqui fan?

[raddam]

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories...1204-1145z.jpg

whoa nelly

[Tippster]

Originally posted by raddam
...whoa nelly

You said it. Today's updated pic:

[cololi]

I have some cousins who live in the Caymans. They got hit pretty hard yesterday and into this morning. Her cell phone worked for about two minutes and they were able to get through to her mom. They were unableto get into a shelter, because they were all full and they were turning people away. They live in an apartment building on the secon floor. By the time they got back from trying to get into the shelter, they first floor of their building was under about 5 feet of water. They had already boarded up all their windows and doors, but got into their apartment and brought in some of their neighbors. They hunkered down in the bathroom. The roof of the apartment building was ripped off, so they sat in the rain for 8 hours before it let up enough for them to get outside. Luckily, they are all ok. They lost everything they own except for their lives.

[Max Gosey]

Damnit. We had best not get pounded. Last I checked, we are on the western border of the track of the storm. This bitch had best turn north (even though it probably is our turn to get slammed).

Have you guys watched the weather channel lately? It's ridiculous! "Umm yeah... we uh... don't really have the slightest friggin' clue which way it's gonna turn..." Not a good sign. Extremely volatile, extremely powerful, and extremely f#&%in' HUGE storm!

P.S. my condolences to your cousins cololi. Devastation sucks. Especically in that awful extreme way.

[iceman]

Good luck, Max. Keep your head down.

[Benny Profane]

Note to myself. Never go to the Caymans during hurricane season.

"What, whitey, you want shelter?? Ah ha ha ha." [slam]

[Tippster]

Goddamn, Max... it's not looking good:

[Tippster]

And here comes the next one...

[cololi]

Thanks for the thoughts Max. Hopefully it will avoid the New Orleans area, where the sister of my cousin in the Caymans is going to school.

Benny: I got an update from my aunt, they were turned away because the shelter had been heavily damaged and they were evacuating it. The told everyone to go to an elementary school, but there were thousand of people there and it was standing room only at best. The building they live in is fairly new, so they decided to go there. Luckily, the Caymans have strict building codes (much like Florida) and no shantee's, so the loss of life and amount of damage will not be as high as it was in Granada and Jamaica.

[Max Gosey]

Damnit. Damnit, damnit, damnit. This is absolutely the very most active hurricane season I have ever witnessed. ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

Oh, and another damnit: school is cancelled here tomorrow. Cool cuz I don't have to do hw tonight, but not a very good sign. I wish your cousin's sister luck, cololi. She doesn't live near the water does she? I hear storm surges will be like 12 to 15 feet near the mouth of the river if the storm turns anymore west...

GO AWAY! WE DON'T WANT YOU, IVAN THE TERRIBLE!!!

[iceman]

Originally posted by Tippster
And here comes the next one...

The name of the next storm is "eleven" ?!?!?

Naw, yer pullin' mah leg.

[AltaPowderDaze]

max, looks like you will be well west of the real action. ivan killed 62 in cuba. lets hope it's done. i remember a cat 4 that died to a cat 1 by the time it made landfall around pecan island. let's hope this one dies down too. i have parents that live on the bay in pensacola. it looks like they will take a direct hit and unfortunatly be to the east of the eye. for those that do not know, the east side of the storm is where the winds are the highest. this one needs to make an abrupt 90 degree right turn back to the cold waters of the atlantic. i hope something changes soon.

[Max Gosey]

Me too, dude. My condo is gonna get slammed hardcore in Orange Beach (Pensacola basically). I'm glad we're on the west side, fer shur. Definitely gotta wait this one out. Pleeeease let it die down before it hits!!!

[Tippster]

Originally posted by iceman
The name of the next storm is "eleven" ?!?!?

Naw, yer pullin' mah leg.

Goddammit, they changed the name (due to being upgraded to a TS ...) It seems they expect it to be a full-on Hurricane in 120 hours, aka 5 days. Good luck, Florida. I wish I had my refund to give to the cause.

[Max Gosey]

Normally we burn skis and do all kinds of crazy things for this kind of atmospheric activity. NOT THIS TIME!

Currently debating whether or not to evacuate. Most of my friends have already made their decisions, but my dad is taking his sweeeeeet time. If we do stay... I'll post some pics. The next couple days ought to be interesting, to say the least.

[13]

Standing in the path of a Cat. 4 possibly strengthening to Cat. 5, and you're below sea level in LA?

Either your dad has major huevos or he's got shit for brains. I can't decide which.

[milton]

i heart mardi gras

Experts paint doomsday scenario if Ivan strikes city

04:40 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Brett Martel / Associated Press

People floating through a polluted stew to treetops, competing with fire ants for a dry perch -- a direct hit here by Hurricane Ivan could be that horrifying, Louisiana storm damage experts say.

With New Orleans' saucer-shaped topography that dips as much as nine feet below sea level, there's nowhere for water to go if a storm surge is strong enough to top levees ringing the city.

"Those folks who remain, should the city flood, would be exposed to all kinds of nightmares from buildings falling apart to floating in the water having nowhere to go," Ivor van Heerden, director of Louisiana State University's Hurricane Public Health Center, said Tuesday.

And that's not all. Flood waters, in addition to collecting standard household and business garbage and chemicals, would flow through chemical plants, "so there's the potential of pretty severe contamination," van Heerden said.

LSU's hurricane experts have spent years developing computer models and taking surveys to predict when hurricanes could flood the city and how many people would choose to wait out the storm at home. Both results paint grim pictures.

Surveys show about 300,000 of the city's 1.6 million metro-area residents would choose to risk staying inside the city's ring of levees.

Computer models show a hurricane of a strong Category 3 or worse (wind speeds of around 120 mph or more), hitting just west of New Orleans, would push storm surges from the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain over the city's levees. New Orleans would be under about 20 feet of water, higher than the roofs of many homes here.

Much of town would be inundated for weeks, meaning the hundreds of thousands who evacuated or could be rescued would have to stay with friends, relatives or in sprawling temporary shelters to the north for weeks.

The rescue operation, meanwhile, would be among the world's biggest since World War II, when Allied Forces rescued mostly British soldiers from Dunkirk, France, and brought them across the English Channel in 1940, van Heerden predicted.

As far as draining flood water out, once the storm passes, if levees have trapped water above sea level, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would cut the levees.

"The real big problem is the water from sea level on down because it will have to be pumped and restoring the pumps and getting them back into action could take a considerable amount of time," said John Hall, the Corps' spokesman in New Orleans.

Hall was talking from home as he prepared to flee the city himself. The Corps' local staff was being relocated Tuesday evening 166 miles north to Vicksburg, Miss., and Hall was worried about what he'd find left of his home when he eventually came back.

"I'm sitting here at minus 6 (feet below sea level) and I'm scared to death," he said.

If Ivan hits east of the city, New Orleans would be on the low side of the storm surge and would not likely have catastrophic flooding, van Heerden said.

Forecasters said the track appeared to be to the east along the Mississippi coast as of Tuesday afternoon.

But even if New Orleans escapes this time, it will remain vulnerable until Louisiana gets billions of dollars from the federal and state government to help restore coastal wetlands that act as a buffer to storms coming in from sea. Louisiana has lost about a half million acres of coast to erosion since 1930. The lost wetlands were built by the Mississippi River, which is now corralled by levees and can only dump sediment at its mouth. That allows waves from the Gulf to chop away at the rest of the coastline with no new sediment replacing it.

"My fear is, if this storm passes (without a major disaster), everybody forgets about it until next year, when it could be even worse because we'll have even less wetlands," van Heerden said.

(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

[Geronimo]

Get the fuck out MORON, this could turn New Orleans into Galveston
plus 21st century sewage & chemicals.

[AltaPowderDaze]

premature evacuation is bad. it's like the boy who cried wolf. after it happens a few times everybody thinks it's just another fire drill and just goes about their business. looks like new orleans will be fine this time. the worst case senario is one that comes right up the mississippi river which i believe andrew did. Ivan will be really bad, but not as bad in n.o. as you think. they get torential downpours that drop more than 2+" per hour(on and off) lasting a couple days. they are geographically screwed, but they really make the best of it. meanwhile in pensacola my parents are losing much sleep over this one. i don't know what's gonna happen, but it looks like a lot of people are going to lose material things. let's hope most people do evacuate from mobile to panama city. unfortunatly my parents have to stick it out.

[AltaPowderDaze]

my mom just sent this in an email to me. i tried to post on my last one, but the image link wouldn't work.

[Jumper Bones]

All the cemeteries in New Orleans are aboveground too - all the graves are sarcophguses, because they can't bury due to water being right below ground level.

So, if the graves get opened up...just imagine what will be floating around...

ewww

[AltaPowderDaze]

Originally posted by Jumper Bones
All the cemeteries in New Orleans are aboveground too - all the graves are sarcophguses, because they can't bury due to water being right below ground level.

So, if the graves get opened up...just imagine what will be floating around...

ewww

hey i've seen it happen in baton rouge a few times. the coffins are held down by a few hundred pounds of concrete. every now and then one comes off during a heavy rain and the coffin pops up.

Edit: in BR they must not be true Sarcophaguses.

[Game Over]

they have a mark on a building in galveston that shows how high the storm surge went...I cant remember how high..it is way up there.