The good news for New Orleans is that the Mississippi is down 7 feet because of the drought, so the surge won’t be as bad there as it would have been in a normal year. Climate change giveth and climate change taketh away.
This storm got to me because the numbers weren’t making any sense at all. The pressure says 100mph+, but it’s 80mph. The intensity models were all wrong. Where in hell is that dry air coming from? The sucker has been spreading rain from the Atlantic to the coast of Texas. The highest wind speeds were in the Southwest quadrant?!
It’s not like were haven’t had almost continuous aircraft coverage in the storm since it entered the Gulf, often with both NOAA and the Air Force in the storm at the same time. There has been massive amounts of good data to run through the models, and we couldn’t pin it down.
The people of New Orleans are going though hell tonight reliving something most would like to forget. It is a form PTSD, and it takes a long time to get over it, if you ever do.
Well, I feel bad for the people in Columbia, South Carolina, because they are being drowned and no one knows it. Every time I looked at the regional radar picture over the last several days they have had a huge glob of red and yellow over their heads.
I’m pleased that my Mother is finally calming down, mostly because I used my laptop to show her what was going on, while she has been trying to get information from television all day. The Weather Channel is fixated on New Orleans for obvious reasons, but she wants to know what’s going on in coastal Okaloosa County and they have cancelled their local features for the duration.
I’m doing great because my Mother and the cats are finally sleeping and not annoying me.
]]>Anyway Bryan, glad you are OK. 🙂
]]>I’m glad the brunt of it missed you, Bryan. But I’m concerned for New Orleans. I wonder if they ever fully recovered from Katrina… certainly despite the efforts of GeeDubya if they have.
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