Lessons from Charley...

[TPACane04]

I am starting to see some chatter here on theboard that Katrina "may" bump bit more east (if models do indeed see and correctly predict more influence from Texas trough)

So ASSUMING that Katrina bumps say 60-80 "landfall" miles east (roughly what Charley did, from Tampa Bay prediction down to Punta Gorda) then is Biloxi/Mobile/Pensacola really ready for this?

Charley was locked into Tampa Bay landfall per the forecast paths last year, right up til <b>6 hours </b> til actual landfall, when the early turn happened.

POINT: If you are in NOLA east to Pensacola, get away from danger...if this Charley-like scenario plays out again, there will be no time and nowhere safe to be.

[JQ Public]

Sage advice

[cjrciadt]

No matter where she strikes a large area (100 miles wide) will get hurricane force winds remember that.

[Myersgirl]

One lesson is, don't bother with putting plywood up if you are not going to do it correctly. You will lose it in the first fifteen minutes and it will be just another flying object. Oh and no generators inside!