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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: BTW on September 16, 2005, 07:58:27 PM
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From the NWSFO New Orleans...
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005
...DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED...
.HURRICANE KATRINA...A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.
MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.
HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.
AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.
POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.
THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE KILLED.
AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.
ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE OUTSIDE!
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sounds like a low yield nuclear weapon detonation.....over 55,000 square miles :cry
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It really hard to comprehend the devastation. In New Orleans we have one type, but on the Gulf Coast its like someone just hosed away the houses and buildings. I have friend in Pas Christian just west of Bay St. Louis and I can't find his house on satellite images. There's just nothing there.
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Originally posted by Yeager
sounds like a low yield nuclear weapon detonation.....over 55,000 square miles :cry
I heard it was more like 900,000 square miles.
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90,000
Too many zeros ;)
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
90,000
Too many zeros ;)
that sounds about right.
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maybe it was a nuke. A AQ nuke and the bushies want us to think its a hurricane so they can stuff haliburton full of taxpayers money. Its the fake moon landing all over again.
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Originally posted by Yeager
maybe it was a nuke. A AQ nuke and the bushies want us to think its a hurricane so they can stuff haliburton full of taxpayers money. Its the fake moon landing all over again.
That sounds more plausible than a Bush created hurrican with the aftermath proving that Bush hates black people.
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It might be intelligent design? ;)
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Originally posted by Sandman
It might be intelligent design? ;)
good point......or it could be how our planet "evolves" :aok
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It might just "evolve" us right the hell off. ;)
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Yep, pack yer bags.
You missed the Comet now watch the Earth implode.
:huh
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Originally posted by Sandman
It might be intelligent design? ;)
Would'nt that be more like intelligent redesign?;)
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Hey, I got an idea. Maybe if we continue to pollute the oceans and atmosphere, hurricanes won't work anymore!! :rolleyes:
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mayhaps we miss the point.
BTR's post is a word for word transcript of the warning issued by NOAA a day in advance of Katrina's landfall.
This warning was not passed on by the media. They simply didn't believe it.
Hundreds, possibly thousands died because the media edited and downplayed this warning.
The media is now wailing about federal, local, state bungling.. and has yet to take it's share of responsibility for their part in the disaster.
I suspect the guy at NOAA that put that wire out has been censured... and I bet that was the last believable disaster warning that'll ever be issued without higher level censure first.
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Maybe if we continue to pollute the oceans and atmosphere, hurricanes won't work anymore!!
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Ive been saying for years all humans should have butt plugs permanently installed. That would end all human pollution.
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I dont believe in prophecy and even if it came true I still wouldnt believe in prophecy.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
The media is now wailing about federal, local, state bungling.. and has yet to take it's share of responsibility for their part in the disaster.
So it was newspapers, radio and television who's to blame because evacuation plans sucked big time and barriers failed? Right :D
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Jeeze, Staga; if yah can't understand english, why do you attempt to communicate via that medium?
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Paul Trotter, a New Orleans native, a survivor of Betsy, employed at the NWS in Slidell wrote that warning. He hasn't been censured but lauded for his attempt to get the message out.
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he's lucky to be alive... i heard the NWS service site in Slidell got pounded flat 24 hours after he put out that warning..
*cheers*
here's to the hero's of the NWS and the Coast Guard.... pro's.
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They are pros. The 48 hour track was only 15 miles off.
I have a *hearty* magnolia tree in my front yard. One large branch was twisted off, twisted like a stubborn sapling - around and around till it snapped. The tree was entirely defoliated. Leaves were pushed under the weather stripping of my door, and created a pile of confetti consistency leaves in my foyer. My locked garage door was torn off and is nowhere to be found - not a piece - nothing - its just gone.