ATL: IKE Discussion
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Hurricanewatcher2007
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Re: ATL IKE: Category 2 - Discussion
attallaman wrote:Sorry to bother you but my internet just came back on after being down for four hours, my cable TV is still out, what's the latest on Ike? Has Ike started moving inland yet? Has the hurricane strengthened or has it lost some of it's strength?
hasn't strengthened yet but based on radar data and sat images looks like its about to. Still up to about 8 hours before landfall.
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dolebot_Broward_NW
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Re: ATL IKE: Category 2 - Discussion
I wonder if govt officials in Galveston and surrounding areas followed "the line", as the Houston metro area first went into the 3 day cone at 8, then clearly at 11pm on Tuesday. I know that in SoFla they evacuated the keys of visitors starting Saturday morning just before they entered the 3 day cone.
This nonsense of "it took a turn" is just crazy - they were even in the 5 day cone for quite some time. From what I can tell they waited until the watch was up for 24 hours before ordering evacs.
This nonsense of "it took a turn" is just crazy - they were even in the 5 day cone for quite some time. From what I can tell they waited until the watch was up for 24 hours before ordering evacs.
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Ed Mahmoud
Re: ATL IKE: Category 2 - Discussion
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
516 PM CDT FRI SEP 12 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN IBERIA PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...NEW IBERIA...JEANERETTE...
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
WEST CENTRAL ST. MARTIN PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES ST. MARTINVILLE...
WESTERN ST. MARY PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...FRANKLIN...BURNS POINT...
EXTREME NORTHEASTERN VERMILION PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
* UNTIL 545 PM CDT
*AT 510 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES EAST OF
BURNS POINT...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 69 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
FRANKLIN BY 525 PM CDT...
BALDWIN AND 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHARENTON BY 530 PM CDT...
JEANERETTE BY 535 PM CDT...
NEW IBERIA AND LYDIA BY 540 PM CDT...
7 MILES SOUTH OF ST. MARTINVILLE BY 545 PM CDT...
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Re: ATL IKE: Category 2 - Discussion
attallaman wrote:Sorry to bother you but my internet just came back on after being down for four hours, my cable TV is still out, what's the latest on Ike? Has Ike started moving inland yet? Has the hurricane strengthened or has it lost some of it's strength?
Ike remains offshore and at 105 mph intensity. Satellite and radar imagery, however, show the storm is better organized than earlier, and some strengthening remains a possibility.
- Jay
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PTrackerLA
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Re: ATL IKE: Category 2 - Discussion
Things have gone downhill quickly in Lafayette, easily gusting over 40 just now with heavy rain in squalls. Tornado warnings going off all around us, hopefully we avoid any of that. Good luck everyone to my west .
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attallaman
Re: ATL IKE: Category 2 - Discussion
Thank you very much for the update.Hurricanewatcher2007 wrote:attallaman wrote:Sorry to bother you but my internet just came back on after being down for four hours, my cable TV is still out, what's the latest on Ike? Has Ike started moving inland yet? Has the hurricane strengthened or has it lost some of it's strength?
hasn't strengthened yet but based on radar data and sat images looks like its about to. Still up to about 8 hours before landfall.
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dhweather wrote:Wow, the Governor, Lt. Governor, Senator Cornyn just said the damages could run upwards of $85 billion. Already estimating 150,000,000 tons of debris to be removed.
Sadly doesn't surprise me, would challenge Katrina's top place!
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Hurricanewatcher2007
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Re: ATL IKE: Category 2 - Discussion
attallaman wrote:Thank you very much for the update.Hurricanewatcher2007 wrote:attallaman wrote:Sorry to bother you but my internet just came back on after being down for four hours, my cable TV is still out, what's the latest on Ike? Has Ike started moving inland yet? Has the hurricane strengthened or has it lost some of it's strength?
hasn't strengthened yet but based on radar data and sat images looks like its about to. Still up to about 8 hours before landfall.
Your very welcome! Hopefully we can get this thing in land before it can strengthen to much more!
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Station 42361 - Auger - Garden Banks 426
Houston, we have a problem. We need a new weather station! The anemometer has not reported since 315 CDT.
Link: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42361
Houston, we have a problem. We need a new weather station! The anemometer has not reported since 315 CDT.
Link: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42361
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Re: ATL IKE: Category 2 - Discussion
This site has been extremely helpful to someone in Houston wondering what the real story is. I'm 26 so I was technically here for Alicia but this will be my first real hurricane experience. Just want to say thanks for all of the very intelligent opinions.
About those who decided to stay in Galveston - I never would have stayed. I'm nervous about staying in Houston. BUT, keep in mind these people waited 18 hours when evacuating for Rita - just to get to HOUSTON, only 50 miles away. There were over a hundred deaths just related to evacuation. Plus, had Rita actually hit Galveston/Houston, these people would have been stuck in a car on the highway instead of the comfort of their homes. So while their decision is not the smartest IMHO, I guess I understand. Best of luck to them!
About those who decided to stay in Galveston - I never would have stayed. I'm nervous about staying in Houston. BUT, keep in mind these people waited 18 hours when evacuating for Rita - just to get to HOUSTON, only 50 miles away. There were over a hundred deaths just related to evacuation. Plus, had Rita actually hit Galveston/Houston, these people would have been stuck in a car on the highway instead of the comfort of their homes. So while their decision is not the smartest IMHO, I guess I understand. Best of luck to them!
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Re: ATL IKE: Category 2 - Discussion
New Orleans area update
A storm surge model produced by the Center for the Study of Public Heath Effects of Hurricanes at LSU predicts surge from Ike will reach near 10 feet on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish and could reach that high in southeasternmost St. Tammany Parish.
The National Weather Service has predicted up to 9 feet of surge on east-facing coastlines in the New Orleans area through this evening.
According to the state Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration, widespread flooding is occurring at Shell Beach, Yscloskey, Alluvial City, Delacroix and Hopedale in St. Bernard Parish, all outside levees.
In Plaquemines Parish, contractors hired by the parish are sandbagging levees in the Caernarvon and Braithwaite areas that experienced breaching during Hurricane Gustav last week. An earlier report of a six-foot-wide breach today in a non-federal parish levee near the towns of Caernarvon, Scarsdale, White Ditch and Braithwaite was false, officials acknowledged later.
However, there has been some minor overtopping of that levee, but the flooding is being contained officials said. As of 11:45 a.m., no reports of flooded homes had been reported in that area.
The state has opened a siphon at the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion Project that usually moves Mississippi River water into wetlands so storm surge in the marshes can flow into the river. Officials are closely monitoring the levels in both the river and the nearby marshes.
On the parish's West Bank, meanwhile, Plaquemines officials are pessimistic about winning a fight against overtopping of a levee in Pointe Celeste. With higher tides later tonight, however, officials fear that fight will not be successful.
In New Orleans, water continues to rise along Lake Pontchartrain, but may be dropping in the Industrial Canal. At the Industrial Canal lock, the water was at 8.56 feet at noon, down from 9.27 feet at 9 a.m.
Floodgates have been closed at the mouths of the London Avenue and 17th Street canals, and no significant flooding is expected in the city, state officials said.
In Jefferson Parish, flooding is reported in Lafitte, where the Pontchartrain Levee District is sending sandbags to protecte critical areas. Grand Isle reported surge flooding covering the island, and water levels may be higher than experienced during Hurricane Gustav on Sept. 1
Floodgates have been closed throughout the parish, including at Company Canal and the Harvey Canal.
Neighborhoods along the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish began flooding Friday morning. The Mandeville lakefront and areas near Slidell such as Eden Isles, Coin du Lestin and Lakeview Drive were swamped by rising water encroaching from the lake Ike's winds pushed through from the southeast.
Numerous roads and bridges were closed from Madisonville to the Slidell area.
In Terrebonne Parish, flooding is reported in the towns of Isle de Jean Charles, Montegute, Pointe Aux Chenes, Cocodrie and Dulac, with parish levees overtopped at several locations.
A storm surge model produced by the Center for the Study of Public Heath Effects of Hurricanes at LSU predicts surge from Ike will reach near 10 feet on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish and could reach that high in southeasternmost St. Tammany Parish.
The National Weather Service has predicted up to 9 feet of surge on east-facing coastlines in the New Orleans area through this evening.
According to the state Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration, widespread flooding is occurring at Shell Beach, Yscloskey, Alluvial City, Delacroix and Hopedale in St. Bernard Parish, all outside levees.
In Plaquemines Parish, contractors hired by the parish are sandbagging levees in the Caernarvon and Braithwaite areas that experienced breaching during Hurricane Gustav last week. An earlier report of a six-foot-wide breach today in a non-federal parish levee near the towns of Caernarvon, Scarsdale, White Ditch and Braithwaite was false, officials acknowledged later.
However, there has been some minor overtopping of that levee, but the flooding is being contained officials said. As of 11:45 a.m., no reports of flooded homes had been reported in that area.
The state has opened a siphon at the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion Project that usually moves Mississippi River water into wetlands so storm surge in the marshes can flow into the river. Officials are closely monitoring the levels in both the river and the nearby marshes.
On the parish's West Bank, meanwhile, Plaquemines officials are pessimistic about winning a fight against overtopping of a levee in Pointe Celeste. With higher tides later tonight, however, officials fear that fight will not be successful.
In New Orleans, water continues to rise along Lake Pontchartrain, but may be dropping in the Industrial Canal. At the Industrial Canal lock, the water was at 8.56 feet at noon, down from 9.27 feet at 9 a.m.
Floodgates have been closed at the mouths of the London Avenue and 17th Street canals, and no significant flooding is expected in the city, state officials said.
In Jefferson Parish, flooding is reported in Lafitte, where the Pontchartrain Levee District is sending sandbags to protecte critical areas. Grand Isle reported surge flooding covering the island, and water levels may be higher than experienced during Hurricane Gustav on Sept. 1
Floodgates have been closed throughout the parish, including at Company Canal and the Harvey Canal.
Neighborhoods along the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish began flooding Friday morning. The Mandeville lakefront and areas near Slidell such as Eden Isles, Coin du Lestin and Lakeview Drive were swamped by rising water encroaching from the lake Ike's winds pushed through from the southeast.
Numerous roads and bridges were closed from Madisonville to the Slidell area.
In Terrebonne Parish, flooding is reported in the towns of Isle de Jean Charles, Montegute, Pointe Aux Chenes, Cocodrie and Dulac, with parish levees overtopped at several locations.
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HURAKAN wrote:Station 42361 - Auger - Garden Banks 426
Houston, we have a problem. We need a new weather station! The anemometer has not reported since 315 CDT.
Link: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42361
Excellent use of that line!
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Holy anti-56k weatherman21! I've got 6mb cable and those pics took 2 minutes to load!
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