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Katrina = Cat.5 = Goodbye New Orleans

They are saying that New Orleans will be uninhabitable for weeks or months with catastrophic damage, millions of people are going to be displaced.
 
CNN, which also just reported that officials in LA think the power won't just go out, but that the entire grid will be destroyed.

Here is what the National Weather Service expects:

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... leaning 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 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 destroted. 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 totally defoliated. Few Crops will remain. Livestock left exposed to the winds will be killed.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm
 
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I hope this is a big ass case of media overexposure. In my short hurricane experience i am totally aware of how the forecasted pathways and predictions don't mean shit in regards to what actually happens
 
did anyone see a really shitty TV movie on the FX channel called "Oil Storm?" They played it a couple of months ago... in June I think...

Anyways, it was a horrible movie(fake documentary), but it started out with this exact same situation... a category 4 hits new orleans. Then the domino effect started. Off shore rigs were too damaged, so the dept of energy rerouted all the traffic to the port of houston, freighters ran into each other, gas prices rose, all hell broke loose, and finally China outbidded the US for middle east sources. Of course realistically there's little chance it would follow that exact sequence, but like its been said, who knows what effect this will have on the whole country. Maybe none at all.... I guess we'll know by tommorow morning.
 
^That would be the kind of worst case scenario that is very unlikely to happen. Oil futures are going to spike tomorrow, but damage reports that come out through the day will determine if it will be just an intraday panic or a more sustained increase.
 
As pointed out already, it has been said for decades that New Orleans simply has no means of sustaining such a natural disaster. I'm a little surprised this hasn't happened already, to be honest. It is on the coast, below sea level, and on the gulf. I just wish this hurricane didn't have to hit New Orleans two weeks after I booked a $250 dollar hotel room on Bourbon Street for 4 days :\ Better cancel that, hey?!
 
bong420tripper said:
I just wish this hurricane didn't have to hit New Orleans two weeks after I booked a $250 dollar hotel room on Bourbon Street for 4 days :\ Better cancel that, hey?!
Cancel? With whom?

A morbid scenario: New Orleanians burry their dead close to the surface, because the soil gets more "mushy" the deeper you dig. With all the flood waters anticipated, New Orleans is about to turn into the city of the floating dead, as all the cadavers get washed up (full of puns today, aren't I, sorry).

On a positive note, on the latest satellite loop (java), it looked like the outer bands were being spread wide, the hurricane becoming less tight. Looks like it's getting ready for an "inhale", its "down" cycle of its reorganisation. Could be good news, because it is almost over land now and once it hits land, it will not be able to "exhale" and tighten up or strengthen. Fingers crossed.
 
rowland2110 said:
It was only a matter of time.


Who wants to bet Pat Robertson is gonna say Katrina is Gods way of punishing New Orleans for all those wild Mardi Gra Parties? 8(

I'd sooner bet that Fred Phelps and his WBC cronies would descend upon the ruins to picket the survivors with ramblings along the lines of:

"God had swept his wrath through the American equivalent of Sodom and Gamorrah. New Orleans has been washed away of all its sodomites and irredeemable sinners, just as in the days when Noah built his ark to save the true believers from His wrath."

8( 8(
 
^^is 4 dollars a pretty normal increase, or is that dramatic increase?

anyways, i just saw on TV that the official record high for gas prices (in todays dollar) was $3.12 per gallon in 1981. so the price of gas wouldn't have to do much to break that record.
 
Four dollars is a big jump, but not huge- swings of $2-3 aren't that uncommon.
 
Katrina hit Florida already on Thursday and killed seven people, then headed to water again and is recharging before hitting New Orleans. Apparently its not going to be quite as bad as was originally predicted, although its still gonna be really really bad.

I just find it incredible how they are evacuating such a huge area. Has anyone seen the pictures of I-10 heading out of the state? They made it one way heading out to the state, and the road is pretty much at a standstill. It looks like a scene out of the movie Independance Day.

Good luck to anyone in the way of the storm.
 
i could very easily see oil going above $100 per barrel in the next couple days that could mean prices at the pump as high as $5.00 i know that does not mean as much as the potential loss of life but that will cripple the US economy:\
 
My brother trades natural gas and oil on the NYMEX, and he said in international trading, natural gas was up 1.78 to 11.78; needless to say, thats a huge jump. The hub where all the natural gas of the country flows to is in LA, and could be shut down for some time. So this is not only big for oil; i'm going to let you all know how both of them close tonight (I'm sure up).
 
*CrystalMeth Bunny* said:
Anyone who evacuates during natural disasters (which most of the time do fuck-all) is a huge pussy. There, I've said it.

Yea.....b/c the all the hard ass cool people like CMB who dont evacuate should get a trophy in the shape of his pathetic penis....Only pussies actually think that a human life is worth taking extra precautions

I just wanted to quote that.....Hope it misses so u can feel good about yourself.....but if it doesnt....you will see how bad this shit will really be.....N.O is the last fucking place on earth a hurricane needs to hit....

If it is a direct hit....this will prob go down as one of the worst natural disasters in US history....N.O sits about 6 ft below sea-level...

Im from New Orelans.....Lived there for 20 yrs until i came into the mlitary....Im deployed right now overseas....so at least im safe (ironic huh?)....But almost everyone i know still lives there...I just got an email today from my Mom (who has NEVER evacuated) saying she's getting the fuck out....even she, at 46, has never seen a hurricane this bad........

Ive rode thru soooo many hurricanes....But this is by far the worst hurricane (175mph + winds) ive ever seen ANYWHERE.....If there is one time people should evacuate it should be NOW! Unfortunantly, last year, 'X' hurricane , just barely missed us but a shitload of people evacuated for nothing (well thast what they said. A reg 6 hr drive to Houston took 18hrs last year when everyone evacuated) I think there will be alot of people who wont evacuate b/c of last year....unfortunantly

I just want people to understand the magnitude of a Hurricane hitting N.O.....Its not necessarily the winds....its the water! And N.O will be the modern day Atlantis if it takes a direct hit....
 
huntmich said:
My brother trades natural gas and oil on the NYMEX, and he said in international trading, natural gas was up 1.78 to 11.78; needless to say, thats a huge jump. The hub where all the natural gas of the country flows to is in LA, and could be shut down for some time. So this is not only big for oil; i'm going to let you all know how both of them close tonight (I'm sure up).

IIRC, oil will be traded on NYMEX until 3:00 PM, but international trading may have a different schedule.

could very easily see oil going above $100 per barrel in the next couple days that could mean prices at the pump as high as $5.00 i know that does not mean as much as the potential loss of life but that will cripple the US economy

$100/bbl seems a little extreme, but it depends how the infrastructure holds up down in LA.
 
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