I need tropical research

[zoeyann]

Does any one have any links to statisical info on hurricanes affecting the Louisiana coast in terms of damage and injury (not a particular storm or season, but a statistical overview in general) Also I am looking
for links to video shots of an area that is being hit by a storm. You know things blowing in the wind and water coming up (the typical hurricane footage stuff. It's for a video project I doing on how dangerous Hurricanes can be. Thanks in advance to anyone who has anything. I can find lots of stuff on a storm by storm basis, but not an overview.

[JetMaxx]

Here's some excellent Louisiana hurricane information I found on the Lake Charles NWSFO website...
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/tropical/hurclihist.htm

[wxman57]

Try the NHC ftp site. Pash has some excellent videos from Hurricane Lili striking south Louisiana:

ftp://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/pub/users/pasch[url]

Look for "Falling_Tree2.avi" and "Truck_Blowing_Over.avi" to name a couple. He has lots of AVI and MPG video files there. You can also back off to the main "users" folder and search the other forecasters/researchers' sub-folders for nice video files of previous hurricanes.

Beware though, that excellent Falling Tree movie shot by KLFY TV-10 in Lafayette is 72+ MB. Better have high-speed Internet access if you're downloading those movies.[/url]

[Agua]

http://www.hurricanecity.com/cities.htm#G

That *may* be of some help to ya.

[CajunMama]

Zoeyann you'll have to do a search but the Orleans Parish Levee Board had some great info about 7 years ago. My son had to do a LA History project and did it on LA Hurricanes. He found info dating back to the 1700's. Good luck.

[zoeyann]

Thanks everybody! This will be lots of help. I was assigned to do a public service announcement for our college TV station, and I wanted to do one for hurricane preparation.

[PTrackerLA]

Try the NHC ftp site. Pash has some excellent videos from Hurricane Lili striking south Louisiana:

ftp://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/pub/users/pasch[url]

Look for "Falling_Tree2.avi" and "Truck_Blowing_Over.avi" to name a couple. He has lots of AVI and MPG video files there. You can also back off to the main "users" folder and search the other forecasters/researchers' sub-folders for nice video files of previous hurricanes.

Beware though, that excellent Falling Tree movie shot by KLFY TV-10 in Lafayette is 72+ MB. Better have high-speed Internet access if you're downloading those movies.[/url]

Ah the famous falling tree video played probably hundreds of times by our news station but it really is an awesome clip if you have 72mb to spare!