ATL: KAREN - Remnants - Discussion

[WeatherGuesser]

Ok... If something has been DECAPITATIED, shes officially dead... Right? Lol

Well, we ARE coming up on Halloween.

[monicaei]

Ok... If something has been DECAPITATIED, shes officially dead... Right? Lol

Well, we ARE coming up on Halloween.

If it works on zombies and vampires, no reason to believe it can't work on tropical storms. Shes been decapitated. NHC Halloween code speak for... All is well!

[ROCK]

She is now toast and the LLC moving towards the NW with the low leveL flow... Probably end up like the CMC into central LA now....just some low clouds and a few showers...

[CYCLONE MIKE]

Well guess the cmc is good for being right 1 out of 100 times a season

Seriously though can't believe some people in mobile are freaking out over this. They should know better.

[cajungal]

I live in Thibodaux and while I didn't go to the stores ( felt there was no need for a measly weak tropical storm) my friends and family reported that Walmart in Thibodaux and Raceland was nuts. Hardly anything on the shelves.

[CYCLONE MIKE]

That's ridiculous. I guess people just like the rush or whatever you want to call it of being in the mix. Kind of like shopping at 3 in the morning on black friday. Dumb.

[Javlin]

Another Dud ! Who would of guessed that would happen hurricane season 2013??

[Maven2379]

Hey guys, I just lurk here! LOL But wanted to say my husband went to Walmart today in Metairie LA and said they had no bread or milk, people here seem to be in a panic! Although why would they buy extra milk if they think we will lose power?? LOL

[cajungal]

That's ridiculous. I guess people just like the rush or whatever you want to call it of being in the mix. Kind of like shopping at 3 in the morning on black friday. Dumb.

I agree. It is stupid. This storm will prob not even blow a few branches of my trees. Chances are slim to none that I will loose power here in Thibodaux esp being on the west side of a naked swirl.

[stormkite]

You got to take into account it was only 24 hour's before NHC was forecasting a L1
Hurricane that is the reason i would think for the panic and confusion.

[cajungal]

Nope the mass panic was actually after she got downgraded to only 50 mph.

[CYCLONE MIKE]

And it has always been forecasted to be a midgrade ts on its final landfall as well.

[MidnightRain]

This has been one of the worst seasons I've tracked, maybe the worst. Preseason forecasting has a long, LONG way to go.

[Evil Jeremy]

Don't look now, but clouds are starting to refire. Lets see what happens as we approach DMAX:

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floater ... imated.gif

[ROCK]

She is wasting no time now...shoot, she might make TX /LA border...lol....she needs the center of her LLC to fire convection over it. Not some pop corn showers well away from the COC....what she needs is a jump start....

[Steve]

Lol Rock. I just got home from a wedding reception and stopped at the store to get a case of Abita just in case we see a couple of squalls and breeze tomorrow. I know wxman57 probably disagreed a bit earlier but I'm kind of hoping the front can squeeze out a couple of inches between a recurving Karen or remnant of Karen and itself. We will see.

Janie, I'm going to watch what I post since politics are banned here. So let me just say there is a large segment of the south (and yeah I'm a native gulf of Mexican) who are paranoid, think everything is a conspiracy, and live in an alternate reality from the real world. We saw that among the poor and less educated during Katrina's aftermath where everyone had it on good source that cannibalism, rapes and beheadings were going on in thesuperdome, sharks were swimming down vets blvd attacking people etc. I was in mobile about four weeks later reading an L.A. times sociological look at how we all (including big media) fell for the rumors as they got increasingly more bizarre. It reminded me of what they used to teach you in first grade by passing something to the ear of your neighbor student who then passed it on to the next one until after a few people, the story was completely something else. In that case, they concluded that a desperate and shell shocked remaining populace of less educated types who spun what they heard into fantastic tales. From that point forward, I decided to be more cynical and believe things I saw or someone who tells me a story directly saw (as opposed to what their friend saw). For those older, many might recall the hysteria of the powdered baby formula 'settlement' in the early 90s where everyone knew of someone's friend who got a hundred bucks when there never was a settlement in Louisiana. Now there is a cottage industry of promoting instant outrage through social media, perpetrated by those motivated only by the money they rake in as they divide the nation with half-truths, outright falsehoods, misinformation etc. and find people willing to lap that up and shell out the cash for the cause. I guess that's the long way back to saying that it would be extremely easy for me to believe that people would blame a 7 dollar an hour convenience store clerk for conspiring to horde gas. Sad, but this is 2013 afterall.

[CYCLONE MIKE]

She is wasting no time now...shoot, she might make TX /LA border...lol....she needs the center of her LLC to fire convection over it. Not some pop corn showers well away from the COC....what she needs is a jump start....

Lol rock. Might better run to the store and gas up the generators. You're going to be in the cone soon. Storms a gonna blow

[CYCLONE MIKE]

Don't look now, but clouds are starting to refire. Lets see what happens as we approach DMAX:

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floater ... imated.gif

I see nothing. The storm system building in south Dakota looks 1000x' s better than this.

[Texashawk]

If you squint real hard and wish cast just a little, it almost seems to be heading WNW. Personally, I have a cruise leaving from Galveston on Sun so I hope Karen doesn't make too much trouble over this way!!!

[emeraldislenc]

Have fun on the cruise you should be Good.