Please post any evacuation orders, links, or information you have from your local emergency management for Alabama or Mississippi in this thread. Dont forget to add what area it pertains to.
Prayers go out to all who will have to deal with this situation.
Evacuation orders, Local emergency info LA\AL\MS\FL
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beachbum_al
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So far nothing except watch the storm and be prepare. As soon as I hear something I will try to post it. I know there are several of us from the Mobile, AL area and the Miss area. I appreciate all of you for keeping us inform during a time like this.
Here is a link to the Mobile Al/ Mississippi info
http://www.stormalert.net/main.html
Here is a link to the Mobile Al/ Mississippi info
http://www.stormalert.net/main.html
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watching
well I have watched both Ivan and Dennis come and go. Ivan was to be a AL/MS border storm just 24 hours before landfall as per NHC then it hits some 50 to 75 miles east. Then Dennis a Mobile/Baldwin strom just 24 hours before land fall it to goes 50 to 75 miles east at the least. After living through both I don't feel to good with the NHC saying NOLA since it is only 125 miles from Mobile. If they stay on track that put it in MS and Mobile on the east side not good. I hope the people in Mobile don't take this storm lightly. Also I will be praying for who ever has to end up dealing with Katrina.
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According to
http://www.stormalert.net/storm1.html
MS/AL might see watches later today or tonight.
http://www.stormalert.net/storm1.html
MS/AL might see watches later today or tonight.
THE NEW FORECAST TRACK AND WIND RADII REQUIRE A HURRICANE WATCH FOR
PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA AT THIS TIME...INCLUDING
METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS. THIS WATCH WILL LIKELY NEED TO BE
EXTENDED ALONG THE COAST LATER TODAY OR TONIGHT.
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St. Tammany Parish (probably spelled wrong) south of I-12 mandatory evac. by 12pm tomorrow.
(http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/ ... s=livenoad)
(http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/ ... s=livenoad)
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tracyswfla wrote:St. Tammany Parish (probably spelled wrong) south of I-12 mandatory evac. by 12pm tomorrow.
(http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/ ... s=livenoad)
Oh DANGIT!! My sister lives there and she just left here going back home. OH for goodness sakes!
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Lindaloo wrote:tracyswfla wrote:St. Tammany Parish (probably spelled wrong) south of I-12 mandatory evac. by 12pm tomorrow.
(http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/ ... s=livenoad)
Oh DANGIT!! My sister lives there and she just left here going back home. OH for goodness sakes!
Call her!
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CASINOS CLOSING
Per the Mississippi Gaming Commission, all coastal casinos will halt casino operations and close to the public at 2am on Sunday morning, August 28. Further, all hotels associated with the properties will close at 9am on Sunday and all guests will be directed leave the premesis no later than that time.
That's about 17,000 folks who won't be working on Sunday or Monday for sure. Only time will tell how long they (and me) will be "off work" after that...
That's about 17,000 folks who won't be working on Sunday or Monday for sure. Only time will tell how long they (and me) will be "off work" after that...
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an FYI from NWS Jackson, MS for those in Mississippi living inland as of 5am:
http://kamala.cod.edu/ms/latest.flus44.KJAN.html
FOLLOWING THE LATEST FORECAST TRACK FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER...HURRICANE KATRINA WILL MAKE LANDFALL ALONG THE SOUTHEAST COAST OF LOUISIANA JUST BEFORE NOON MONDAY MORNING. THE PATH WILL TAKE THE CENTER OF THE STORM OVER NEW ORLEANS AND NORTHWARD TO THE MARION/LAMAR COUNTY LINE BY 7 PM MONDAY EVENING. THE STORM WILL THEN CONTINUE NORTH-NORTHEAST TO NEAR NEWTON AND COLUMBUS THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THIS PATH WILL BRING SIGNIFICANT WINDS AND WIND GUST TO A LARGE PORTION OF THE REGION. AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 84 FROM PRENTISS TO LAUREL WILL EXPERIENCE THE STRONGEST WINDS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE. THE REST OF THE REGION...BASICALLY EAST OF A NATCHEZ TO YAZOO CITY TO WINONA LINE WILL EXPERIENCE TROPICAL STORM WINDS WITH HIGHER GUSTS. EXPECT EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES...ALONG WITH SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN MOST COUNTIES.
http://kamala.cod.edu/ms/latest.flus44.KJAN.html
FOLLOWING THE LATEST FORECAST TRACK FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER...HURRICANE KATRINA WILL MAKE LANDFALL ALONG THE SOUTHEAST COAST OF LOUISIANA JUST BEFORE NOON MONDAY MORNING. THE PATH WILL TAKE THE CENTER OF THE STORM OVER NEW ORLEANS AND NORTHWARD TO THE MARION/LAMAR COUNTY LINE BY 7 PM MONDAY EVENING. THE STORM WILL THEN CONTINUE NORTH-NORTHEAST TO NEAR NEWTON AND COLUMBUS THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THIS PATH WILL BRING SIGNIFICANT WINDS AND WIND GUST TO A LARGE PORTION OF THE REGION. AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 84 FROM PRENTISS TO LAUREL WILL EXPERIENCE THE STRONGEST WINDS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE. THE REST OF THE REGION...BASICALLY EAST OF A NATCHEZ TO YAZOO CITY TO WINONA LINE WILL EXPERIENCE TROPICAL STORM WINDS WITH HIGHER GUSTS. EXPECT EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES...ALONG WITH SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN MOST COUNTIES.
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Important!
If anyone plans on taking shelter at the Superdome, you are to bring 3-5 DAYS worth of food with you!
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...rricane_katrina
Katrina Packing Wind of Nearly 175 Mph
By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer
4 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an immediate evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans, a city sitting below sea level with 485,000 inhabitants, as Hurricane Katrina bore down with wind revved up to nearly 175 mph and a threat of a massive storm surge.
Acknowledging that large numbers of people, many of them stranded tourists, would be unable to leave, the city set up 10 places of last resort including the Superdome arena. :pray:
"This is a once in a lifetime event," the mayor said. "The city of New Orleans has never seen a hurricane of this magnitude hit it directly."
The mayor called the order unprecedented, but said Katrina's storm surge would likely top the levees that protect the city from the surrounding water of Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi River and marshes. The bowl-shaped city must pump water out even during normal times, and the hurricane threatened pump power.
"We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared," Nagin said.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Interstate 10, which was converted Saturday so that all lanes headed one-way out of town, was totally gridlocked.
At 11 a.m. EDT, the National Hurricane Center said Katrina's maximum sustained wind speed had stepped up to nearly 175 mph, with higher gusts. The hurricane's eye was about 225 miles south-southeast of the mouth of Mississippi River.
The storm was moving toward the west-northwest at nearly 12 mph and was expected to turn toward the north-northwest, the hurricane center said.
The mayor said people who opted to go to the Superdome should come with enough food and supplies to last three to five days. He police and firefighters would fan out throughout the city telling residents to get out. He also said police would have the authority to commander any vehicle or building that could be used for evacuation or shelter.
A hurricane warning was in effect for the north-central Gulf Coast from Morgan City, La., to the Alabama-Florida line, meaning hurricane conditions were expected within 24 hours, the hurricane center said. Tropical storm warnings extended east to Indian Pass, Fla., and west to Cameron, La.
Katrina had been blamed for nine deaths in South Florida.
The storm had the potential for storm surge flooding of up to 25 feet, topped with even higher waves, as much as 15 inches of rain, and tornadoes, the National Hurricane Center said.
Only three Category 5 hurricanes — the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale — have hit the United States since record-keeping began. The last was 1992's Hurricane Andrew, which leveled parts of South Florida, killed 43 people and caused $31 billion in damage. The other two were the 1935 Labor Day hurricane that hit the Florida Keys and killed 600 people and Hurricane Camille, which devastated the Mississippi coast in 1969, killing 256.
The hurricane's landfall could still come in Mississippi and affect Alabama and Florida, but it looked likely to come ashore Monday morning on the southeastern Louisiana coast, said Ed Rappaport, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. That put New Orleans squarely in the crosshairs.
"If it came ashore with the intensity it has now and went to the New Orleans area, it would be the strongest we've had in recorded history there," Rappaport said in a telephone interview Sunday morning. "We're hoping of course there'll be a slight tapering off at least of the winds, but we can't plan on that. So whichever area gets hit, this is going to be a once in a lifetime event for them."
He said loss of life was "what inevitably occurs" with a storm this strong.
"We're in for some trouble here no matter what," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...rricane_katrina
Katrina Packing Wind of Nearly 175 Mph
By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer
4 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an immediate evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans, a city sitting below sea level with 485,000 inhabitants, as Hurricane Katrina bore down with wind revved up to nearly 175 mph and a threat of a massive storm surge.
Acknowledging that large numbers of people, many of them stranded tourists, would be unable to leave, the city set up 10 places of last resort including the Superdome arena. :pray:
"This is a once in a lifetime event," the mayor said. "The city of New Orleans has never seen a hurricane of this magnitude hit it directly."
The mayor called the order unprecedented, but said Katrina's storm surge would likely top the levees that protect the city from the surrounding water of Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi River and marshes. The bowl-shaped city must pump water out even during normal times, and the hurricane threatened pump power.
"We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared," Nagin said.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Interstate 10, which was converted Saturday so that all lanes headed one-way out of town, was totally gridlocked.
At 11 a.m. EDT, the National Hurricane Center said Katrina's maximum sustained wind speed had stepped up to nearly 175 mph, with higher gusts. The hurricane's eye was about 225 miles south-southeast of the mouth of Mississippi River.
The storm was moving toward the west-northwest at nearly 12 mph and was expected to turn toward the north-northwest, the hurricane center said.
The mayor said people who opted to go to the Superdome should come with enough food and supplies to last three to five days. He police and firefighters would fan out throughout the city telling residents to get out. He also said police would have the authority to commander any vehicle or building that could be used for evacuation or shelter.
A hurricane warning was in effect for the north-central Gulf Coast from Morgan City, La., to the Alabama-Florida line, meaning hurricane conditions were expected within 24 hours, the hurricane center said. Tropical storm warnings extended east to Indian Pass, Fla., and west to Cameron, La.
Katrina had been blamed for nine deaths in South Florida.
The storm had the potential for storm surge flooding of up to 25 feet, topped with even higher waves, as much as 15 inches of rain, and tornadoes, the National Hurricane Center said.
Only three Category 5 hurricanes — the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale — have hit the United States since record-keeping began. The last was 1992's Hurricane Andrew, which leveled parts of South Florida, killed 43 people and caused $31 billion in damage. The other two were the 1935 Labor Day hurricane that hit the Florida Keys and killed 600 people and Hurricane Camille, which devastated the Mississippi coast in 1969, killing 256.
The hurricane's landfall could still come in Mississippi and affect Alabama and Florida, but it looked likely to come ashore Monday morning on the southeastern Louisiana coast, said Ed Rappaport, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. That put New Orleans squarely in the crosshairs.
"If it came ashore with the intensity it has now and went to the New Orleans area, it would be the strongest we've had in recorded history there," Rappaport said in a telephone interview Sunday morning. "We're hoping of course there'll be a slight tapering off at least of the winds, but we can't plan on that. So whichever area gets hit, this is going to be a once in a lifetime event for them."
He said loss of life was "what inevitably occurs" with a storm this strong.
"We're in for some trouble here no matter what," he said.
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