Here we go again -- Katrina

[Cowboyjg]

I find it amazing the degree of uncertainty that exists with these things. That quick southerly jog after it hit shore was similar to Charley last year. It chugged it's way up the west coast and all of a sudden, out of the blue, it hangs a rudy into charlotte harbor and gets sucked up the Peace River. In 35 years I never boarded up till last year. I would have swore that Charley was headed right for my house... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Whats amazing is no matter how hard they try to predict...it's gonna go where it wants to go when it wants to go there. I don't think people, as a general rule, fully understand that you can't wait till the last minute to see what's gonna happen because you don't want to put all that STUFF away and have to take it back out.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Glad to hear you dodged a bullet. Over here in the South Tampa area there talkin bout some rain and wind mostly.

 

[dmccarty]

Don,

The slushing of Lake O's water from the north to the south is why the Hoover dike was built. There was a hurricane in the 20's or 30's that killed thousands of people around Lake O. The real number of deaths will never be known.

I'm surprised at the number of deaths so far from Katrina. The ones I don't understand is the missing family of 5 that went on a boat trip Thursday to/on the west coast. The report was not very clear on where the boat was from or where it was traveling. Two parents, two teenagers and a four year old. I sure hope the report has a better answer.

Later,
Dan

 

[SkyPup]

I have photos of my grandparents taking my mother and her brother and sister out of the second story window of their home into a rescue boat in 1928 when that storm flooded the Big O and killed so many people. The tops of the Royal Palm trees were just barely sticking out of the water in the background.

Their two story Spanish stlye home was built in 1915 in Fort Lauderdale on the edge of Port Everglades in Broward County. Our family owned all the land that is now Port Everglades.

Also have pics of three 600-foot long steel freighter ships high and dry in downtown Ft. Lauderdale 2 miles INLAND of Port Everglades! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

That was the storm that resulted in the Dam around the Big O, my grandmother told me most of the people died of food poisoning and water contamination in the aftermath of the storm.

 

[PSDStu]

Well it now looks like once again a Hurricane is headed to the Panhandle......at least I'm inland, and not on the water.

Hopefully it won't be to bad around here.

 

[SkyPup]

The National Weather Service is predicting Katrina to make Class IV prior to landfall, that simply means get out now while there is still time.

 

[Amontilado]

Personally am not going to get worried until it starts to turn north. About 72 hrs until landfall according to the 4pm CDT NHC prediction. The problem is the northeasterly winds keeping it from turning north. The last issuance the NHC left open the possibility for more "adjustments" to the track (with the center of the cone of probability aiming for southern Mobile county). <sigh>

Steve

 

[Barton]

From weather.com:

There was a report of a family of five missing that was on a boat off southern Florida during the hurricane, but the good news they were all rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard.

 

[dmccarty]

Barton,

I saw the report that they had been found. They where very lucky. They played a bit of Gilligans Island.

The reports I saw was that they where in a 24 foot boat. I would like to know why they went out in the first place. My guess is that they thought the storm would track well to the north and they where ok to go. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif And then it turned south.....

I just hope New Orleans can escape this mess somehow. This sure looks to be The One. A guess another few hours and we will know. With 10 inches of rain so far the flooding is going to be bad....

Later,
Dan