My son lives on Royal St. in New Orleans.
Should he leave now. Concerned parent!
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LSU2001
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Hi,
I live in Baton Rouge which is about the same distance from the coast as hattisburg. With Andrew Baton Rouge recorded 100-110 sustained winds and we were without power for about 8-14 days depending upon location. we did not see very much rain as andrew was fast moving but we did have a lot of wind damage. I am planning to start tomorrow getting things ready (food water, generator etc) If it misses i just won't have to buy groceries for another week but I will be ready if it hits
I live in Baton Rouge which is about the same distance from the coast as hattisburg. With Andrew Baton Rouge recorded 100-110 sustained winds and we were without power for about 8-14 days depending upon location. we did not see very much rain as andrew was fast moving but we did have a lot of wind damage. I am planning to start tomorrow getting things ready (food water, generator etc) If it misses i just won't have to buy groceries for another week but I will be ready if it hits
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skyking wrote:My son lives on Royal St. in New Orleans.
Should he leave now. Concerned parent!
I live there too. We are rounding up the important papers, documents and photographs that insurance cannot replace and packing them up. Tomorrow, if it still looks possible to us that NOLA is a target we will board up, secure all outdoor stuff from wind, and head north.
Whether or not this is the time to leave is hard to say. I would caution to leave sooner rather than later, though...in Georges it took 8 hours to get 80 miles to Baton Rouge. Last place I want to be in the storm is stuck on the I-10.
I'd advise you to urge him to go fill up his vehicle with gas tonight.
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lsu2001 wrote:Hi,
I live in Baton Rouge which is about the same distance from the coast as hattisburg. With Andrew Baton Rouge recorded 100-110 sustained winds and we were without power for about 8-14 days depending upon location. we did not see very much rain as andrew was fast moving but we did have a lot of wind damage. I am planning to start tomorrow getting things ready (food water, generator etc) If it misses i just won't have to buy groceries for another week but I will be ready if it hits
Woah now. Baton Rouge did not get that kinda wind. I live there too. The highest winds I know of were 90 mph on the river (which I think were estimates) and 70 mph (61 kt) at the airport, on the north side of town. Brusly, on the other side of the river, reported winds of 103 mph (90 kt). These were all gusts. In fact, I am not sure that any place in LA actually reported sustained winds over 110 mph. I would not be shocked if some place in BR got some gusts to 100, especially on the south or west side, but there are no reports of that in anything I've seen so far. Andrew hit southcentral LA hard, but it really spared us a lot. It had been a category 4 in the Gulf. It was small and weakening when it. In fact, in the reanalysis of Andrew, they upped the intensity for Florida and lowered it for LA, from 105 kt to 100. Besty is a good example of how much worse it could be. The 140 mph gust line extended to Thibodaux, the 130 mph line to Carville and Morgan City (129 mph), 100 mph line to Pointe Coupee. Winds were still gusting to near hurricane force in southern Arkansas. New Orleans had winds of at least 125 mph, and possibly higher as some of the observations there ended before the worst of the storm.
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I stand quite corrected. I guess I heard somewhere that the winds were 110 at the airport. Usually the Pat S is wrong on wbrz but I did find an article that supports your wind gust estimates. However, the damage was real and I do know that I went without power in North Baton Rouge for 9 Days.
http://www.lacoast.gov/education/willfulwinds/storm.htm
Still very strong, the hurricane traveled through the swamps and forests of the Atchafalaya Basin. Aerial reconnaissance shortly after the storm revealed large tracts of downed and mangled forests. More than 40 percent of the bottomland hardwood forests in Iberia, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes were severely damaged. By the time the storm neared Baton Rouge, its peak wind gusts were still near hurricane force, 113 kmph (70 mph).
http://www.lacoast.gov/education/willfulwinds/storm.htm
Still very strong, the hurricane traveled through the swamps and forests of the Atchafalaya Basin. Aerial reconnaissance shortly after the storm revealed large tracts of downed and mangled forests. More than 40 percent of the bottomland hardwood forests in Iberia, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes were severely damaged. By the time the storm neared Baton Rouge, its peak wind gusts were still near hurricane force, 113 kmph (70 mph).
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I stand quite corrected. I guess I heard somewhere that the winds were 110 at the airport. Usually the Pat S is wrong on wbrz but I did find an article that supports your wind gust estimates. However, the damage was real and I do know that I went without power in North Baton Rouge for 9 Days.
http://www.lacoast.gov/education/willfulwinds/storm.htm
Still very strong, the hurricane traveled through the swamps and forests of the Atchafalaya Basin. Aerial reconnaissance shortly after the storm revealed large tracts of downed and mangled forests. More than 40 percent of the bottomland hardwood forests in Iberia, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes were severely damaged. By the time the storm neared Baton Rouge, its peak wind gusts were still near hurricane force, 113 kmph (70 mph).
http://www.lacoast.gov/education/willfulwinds/storm.htm
Still very strong, the hurricane traveled through the swamps and forests of the Atchafalaya Basin. Aerial reconnaissance shortly after the storm revealed large tracts of downed and mangled forests. More than 40 percent of the bottomland hardwood forests in Iberia, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes were severely damaged. By the time the storm neared Baton Rouge, its peak wind gusts were still near hurricane force, 113 kmph (70 mph).
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I stand quite corrected. I guess I heard somewhere that the winds were 110 at the airport. Usually the Pat S is wrong on wbrz but I did find an article that supports your wind gust estimates. However, the damage was real and I do know that I went without power in North Baton Rouge for 9 Days.
http://www.lacoast.gov/education/willfulwinds/storm.htm
Still very strong, the hurricane traveled through the swamps and forests of the Atchafalaya Basin. Aerial reconnaissance shortly after the storm revealed large tracts of downed and mangled forests. More than 40 percent of the bottomland hardwood forests in Iberia, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes were severely damaged. By the time the storm neared Baton Rouge, its peak wind gusts were still near hurricane force, 113 kmph (70 mph).
http://www.lacoast.gov/education/willfulwinds/storm.htm
Still very strong, the hurricane traveled through the swamps and forests of the Atchafalaya Basin. Aerial reconnaissance shortly after the storm revealed large tracts of downed and mangled forests. More than 40 percent of the bottomland hardwood forests in Iberia, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes were severely damaged. By the time the storm neared Baton Rouge, its peak wind gusts were still near hurricane force, 113 kmph (70 mph).
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