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re: Hurricane Ida - were the wind reports across SELA greatly under measured?
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:30 pm to Klingler7
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:30 pm to Klingler7
Mine is about 23 feet above ground level. I can't get it any higher and maintain safety (without risk of it falling over) since it's on a pole. It's also surrounded by trees on 3 sides, with the trees on the northern side where the wind during Ida was coming from about 70 feet away. It's not 100% accurate because there's lots of obstructions, which just adds confidence to my theory of over 100mph gusts since a 78 mph gust broke it (likely a branch or other debris).
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Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:31 pm to TDsngumbo
I'm telling you we had many many gust over 100.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:31 pm to fightin tigers
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Negative. I believe worst he saw in the area was Katrina; but other circumstances probably contributed to that.
He is just down the creek from you.
Man, I'm really confused now. Katrina wasn't shite around here. Maybe 50-60mph gusts here and there but mostly under 50 for Katrina. How does he feel Gustav wasn't as bad as Katrina and that Gustav was worse than Ida? That makes no sense to me.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:34 pm to TDsngumbo
Katrina more destruction than both, Gustav more wind than both.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:39 pm to fightin tigers
You have to be fricking with me now 
. Unless your dad was in New Orleans or around the Mississippi coast for Katrina, one of you is full of shite. Gustav was during the day so maybe your dad feels like that was stronger winds because he could see it more but Ida 100% was more powerful and destructive to this area than both. Gustav would be a close 2nd, though.
. Unless your dad was in New Orleans or around the Mississippi coast for Katrina, one of you is full of shite. Gustav was during the day so maybe your dad feels like that was stronger winds because he could see it more but Ida 100% was more powerful and destructive to this area than both. Gustav would be a close 2nd, though. Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:50 pm to TDsngumbo
quote:Do you though?
gusts are higher than sustained winds, I know that
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my estimate of 100-110mph gusts
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the hurricane had sustained winds of around ~105mph when it was closest to me, in my opinion
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100-110mph gusts here
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:52 pm to lsufb1912
Are you really not able to read what you're quoting and not understand what I'm saying?
Posted on 5/26/22 at 5:01 pm to TDsngumbo
yes
Posted on 5/26/22 at 5:37 pm to TDsngumbo
Gustav was worse in SE EBR from every measurable metric. Power outages, tree damage, wind speed. Once winds gets strong people greatly over-estimate them.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 6:01 pm to The Boat
Maybe my location was just very different from Baton Rouge then. I know the gradient was very sharp but I assumed SE BR was close to on par with what I got here but maybe not. I know for a fact that Ida was worse where I am than Gustav was - and I was in Donaldsonville for Gustav.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 6:21 pm to TDsngumbo
I work in the industry and I move my guys in basically while it's still blowing.
I haven't done a major storm in 20 years that wasn't under reported.
Especially Michael. I had a retired weatherman with $30k of equipment on his property and he personally showed me the sustained wind were WAY over the reported speed and well into CAT 5 rating....yet I was reported as a 4.
He seemed to think there is some type of raise gvmnt liability % if storms hit a a 5.(basically saying a larger% of $ is legally required of the gvmnt)
I haven't done a major storm in 20 years that wasn't under reported.
Especially Michael. I had a retired weatherman with $30k of equipment on his property and he personally showed me the sustained wind were WAY over the reported speed and well into CAT 5 rating....yet I was reported as a 4.
He seemed to think there is some type of raise gvmnt liability % if storms hit a a 5.(basically saying a larger% of $ is legally required of the gvmnt)
Posted on 5/26/22 at 6:49 pm to the LSUSaint
I was in the manchac lake apartments that Sunday night. It’s the big complex right by bayou manchac on airline highway by the parish line with EBR. We were on the 3rd floor and got 5 or 6 readings of gusts over 100mph. From what I remember, the sustained winds stayed in the 80s where we were.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:09 pm to LSUguy2023
My house in Destrehan took an arse whipping. That bitch was not playing around. Cat 5 IMO no matter what the NWS says.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:23 pm to rmnldr
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I'm curious myself. The max wind gust for my area was listed as 90 or so mph with a sustained windspeed of 75 or so. We were in the eyewall for a good 3+ hours and the damage done to the trees all around was staggering. Most of them were all defoliated and some debarked badly. I don't buy those wind speeds.
When you sit for hours in an eye wall that looks like this you're not going to have typical-looking hurricane damage.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:01 pm to LegendInMyMind
What a bitch
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:16 pm to TDsngumbo
At MSY, ASOS had an interruption in service but measured a gust around 90 mph. The thinking is that winds maxed out at the airport between 105-110 mph.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:50 pm to TDsngumbo
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Are you really not able to read what you're quoting and not understand what I'm saying?
Yes, you said gusts are higher than sustained winds.
Then you also said there were sustained winds of 105 & gusts of 100-110.
Sounds to me like you are saying gusts are the same thing as sustained winds.
This post was edited on 5/26/22 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:54 pm to lsufb1912
Sustained winds: average winds over a 2 minute interval.
Gusts: are the highest winds that have a peak and lull of 10 knots or greater within the past 10 minutes.
Gusts: are the highest winds that have a peak and lull of 10 knots or greater within the past 10 minutes.
This post was edited on 5/26/22 at 8:55 pm
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:59 pm to lsufb1912
No no, I also said that the sustained winds were 105 when it was a few miles to my east, putting me on the west side where the winds are usually weaker. Given how close it was when it was sustained at 105 and my experience at 78mph an hour before, I would estimate the strongest gusts I received were around 100-110. The sustained winds near me were probably around 80 with gusts to 100-110 is what I’m saying.
This post was edited on 5/26/22 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 5/26/22 at 9:02 pm to TDsngumbo
What parish did your trampolines land in? That's my measuring stick.
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