Comments on: Some Useless Data

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:10:12 +0000

You need a storm every so often to be sure that everything is still working and available if you need it. This weekend I’ll be pulling all of the ice packs out of the freezers and put things away until they are needed.

When I have the time I will make a few changes that I will need to deal with the fact that I’m older and can’t throw things around like I used to.

I use this as a controlled outlet for anger, and I have amassed a lot of it over the years.

By: Anya

Anya — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 04:39:55 +0000

Yes, thank you, Bryan. I finally had to take Out, Standing In Her Field down because I burned out after Katrina and my ability to be outraged never recovered. The whole site was gathering dust.

So glad you made it through this storm, and hope they miss you and yours for the rest of the season.

🙂

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:01:05 +0000

Well, there’s nothing like a hurricane for an excuse to indulge. Who wants to be washed out to sea with too few root beer floats consumed?

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:49:51 +0000

i noticed it, and knew where the tm symbol was linked to even without hovering over the link!

so yesterday between storm bands, because i had already eaten all my hurricane ice cream, i went out and got a chocolate frosty root beer float at wendy’s drive-up window.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:29:47 +0000

I hope you hovered over the ™ symbol and saw that I gave you credit, Аня, even though the link is dead.

By: Anya

Anya — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:17:32 +0000

*Sets up her stainless steel colander stand* Just $10.95… But, for you — Free!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:51:47 +0000

At least they have blocked MRGO, which acted like a battering ram against the flood wall on the East side of the city, but there is going to be flooding with all of the rain forecast. The pumps only remove an inch the first hour, and ½ inch/hour afterward.

Yeah, I played with the maps. With that ridge building in and slowing the storm, the surge will be pushing into the bays for at least two high tides, and blocking the drainage from upstream, so there will be inland flooding in my north county and yours.

If this thing goes where they say, New Orleans will actually get higher winds than it had from Katrina. They should issue life vests and hole saws to people when they register to vote in the parish. The surrounding parishes are also in trouble if the rain forecast holds. The rain will be trapped by their levees, and they don’t have the pumps to get rid of it. At least the Mississippi is way down, so there is a lot of available storage for water.

As near as I can tell, Isaac has sucked in dry air and is so large that it can’t really intensify rapidly. Katrina expanded after it intensified, but Isaac’s wind field has been hundreds of miles across since the Caribbean.

Ivan got sucked over by a trough building in before landfall. There is a trough coming down, which is why the UKMET model has been well East of the others, but it isn’t having the influence the model thought it would. If Isaac had intensified in the southern Gulf, I would be waiting for it to come ashore here. Troughs don’t affect tropical storms as much as they do hurricanes.

The NHC forecasters are getting really annoyed with this storm. Let’s just hope the newest candidate to come off of the African coast doesn’t follow Isaac’s path. I want a break.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:16:59 +0000

speaking of storm surge, the nhc has provided me with a new toy this year – storm surge maps:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/033838.shtml?gm_psurge#contents

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/033838.shtml?gm_esurge#contents

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:12:35 +0000

yep, ivan [2004] was supposed to go to new orleans too, and veered over here at the last minute. at the very last minute – new orleans had done major evacuations, only to have a nothingburger of a rainstorm. i’ve always wondered how much that figured into the non-evacuations that didn’t happen for katrina [2005].

i’m cautiously hopeful that the mississippi river will get this one, but other than already eating the ice cream, i’m not coming out of hiding until that sucker makes landfall.

people from various other parts of the country sometimes ask me how i can stand to live in hurricane alley. let’s see… wildfires, earthquakes, mudslides, ice storms, tornadoes, avalanches, blizzards, dust storms… why would anybody live in any of those places?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 03:45:10 +0000

We were posting at the same time, Ellroon.

I see the Imperial Valley had another cluster episode. Those were really unnerving – multiple hits in quick succession and you had no idea when or if the earth would stop trembling under your feet. I can plan and prepare for the storms, but earthquakes just happen.