Picture of Katrina's storm surge in Bay St. Louis

[beachbum_al]

I was going through snopes looking for something and came across this. Just unbelievable and scary!

Here is the link

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/surge.asp


Sorry if this has been done before.

[TSmith274]

Actually, that picture was taken at NASA's Michoud facility in New Orleans East. Those plant workers have quite a story to go along with those pictures.

Here's the link to the rest of the pictures... the story is in there somewhere. I'll try to find it. http://www.wwltv.com/cleanup/160.htm

Found it... here's the story... http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWL102405picture.27068e.html

[beachbum_al]

Thank you! Those pictures are just...well hard to even imagine. Is this close to Chalmette LA. My dad worked at the Chalmette plant for several months.

[dhweather]

I e-mailed Snopes to inform them that is NOT from BSL, MS.

[Dr. Jonah Rainwater]

Yowzers...

Show this to those officials nitpicking about "overtopping" vs "breaching"!

[cheezyWXguy]

incredablee pic!!!

[HurricaneGirl]

[HurryKane]

I e-mailed Snopes to inform them that is NOT from BSL, MS.

They know it's not.

From the Snopes article:

Origins: The above-displayed photograph, which documents a storm surge created when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the U.S. in late August 2005, is genuine (although the accompanying descriptions of the location it was taken from are sometimes inaccurate, and what it depicts might be more accurately described as water overflowing a levee rather than a true storm surge).

The image is one of a series captured by Don McClosky, manager of Entergy's Michoud power plant in New Orleans. Mr. McClosky rode out the storm at the power plant, from which he snapped pictures like the one displayed above. As WWL-TV noted of the event:

They also include this link which gives great detail about the images:
http://www.mgcollins.com/Katrina/MRGOPage.html

[brunota2003]

Yowzers...

Show this to those officials nitpicking about "overtopping" vs "breaching"!

All in all, I dont think it matters if the levees where breached or overtopped...but...this was interesting from the guy that was there:

In a home video made by a worker at the power plant, you can hear Katrina's winds screaming through the power plant. McClosky and his crew watched as the levee reached the limits of its protection and water began pouring in. Eventually Katrina dumped between five and eight feet of water inside the power plant.

On the tape you can hear McClosky talk to his employees about moving higher as the water rose about a foot every ten minutes.

"There were waves up on top of that, that were probably 15 to 18 foot on top of what you saw form the hurricane protection levee that was out there"

If I'm reading that correct...the levees were indeed overtopped first...then most likely broke due to all the stress after they were overtopped...just an interesting thought IMHO...which would mean the NWS/NHC warning of them being overtopped was dead on...and people are STILL trying to trash the NHC...(no one here)

[Dionne]

NASA satelite altimetry knew this surge was out there 48 hours prior to landfall.

It was never reported in advance. I have done the research and sent numerous emails. To the best of my understanding someone, somewhere along the media information line doubted the intensity of the data and failed to pass it along. 45 minutes before the eyewall made landfall a bouy off Dauphine island confirmed the data.

I am of the opinion that more people would have evacuated with this information.

[vbhoutex]

NASA satelite altimetry knew this surge was out there 48 hours prior to landfall.

It was never reported in advance. I have done the research and sent numerous emails. To the best of my understanding someone, somewhere along the media information line doubted the intensity of the data and failed to pass it along. 45 minutes before the eyewall made landfall a bouy off Dauphine island confirmed the data.

I am of the opinion that more people would have evacuated with this information.

I would like to see some sort of confirmation of this other than your own words. I'm not doubting you, but what you are stating has serious implications to it if indeed information such as this was withheld. I am not sure that people could have gotten out of harms way with that short of a notice(meaning the 45 minute confirmation at the Dauphine Island bouy), but if it was known in advance enough then as I always say BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY!!!

[Jim Cantore]

Almost looks like a tsunami