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re: Hurricane Katrina, re: the doomsday warning
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:51 am to East Coast Band
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:51 am to East Coast Band
When extreme events like this happen, nobody really believes it will be as bad as the experts predict. The last storm that somewhat affected Nola in a bad way was decades before. We should have planned for levee failures, but it’s hard to make people believe it was real.
For MS gulf coast, it ended up being way worse than anyone thought.
shite happens. The Texas hill country floods this year and the NC area floods are proof. Mother Nature sneaks up on everyone at some point.
Even with the 2016 Baton Rouge floods, many people were caught off guard.
For MS gulf coast, it ended up being way worse than anyone thought.
shite happens. The Texas hill country floods this year and the NC area floods are proof. Mother Nature sneaks up on everyone at some point.
Even with the 2016 Baton Rouge floods, many people were caught off guard.
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Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:52 am to East Coast Band
quote:
. All gabled roofs will fail,
My gable roof did just fine...
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:52 am to Hangover Haven
Well it didn't hit at 175 MPH winds, more like 115 or 110.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:53 am to GeauxtigersMs36
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Taking up shop in the quarter
They had no where else to go
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 10:55 am
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:53 am to GeauxtigersMs36
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:55 am to GumboPot
The temperature of the air in New Orleans has nothing to do with the strength of a hurricane developing in the Gulf. The temperature of the water in the Gulf contributes to the strength of a hurricane.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:55 am to profdillweed
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happened, not just in NOLA but it did happen along the Gulf Coast and the lower lying areas
50% of all houses had roof and wall failures?
100% gabled roof failure?
>50% of all industrial buildings become non-functional due to partial or complete roof and wall failures?
ALL wood-framed, low-rise apartment buildings DESTROYED?
High rise apartments and offices swaying to the point of complete collapse?
Look, Katrina is the singularly most destructive hurricane of my life-time. Its storm surge devastated everything in its path, a literal wall of water that floated oil storage tanks, flattening homes down to foundations or piers. It was truly a devastating storm that we need to take lessons from. However, the hyperbolic language used does nothing but drums up panic and results in irrational chaos and fear. It’s weather fear-porn and I can’t stand it.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:58 am to The Boat
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Nothing of that lives up to this certain death warning about the wind.
At the time of that warning, she was a cat 5 packing 175 mph winds. If not for the weakening to a cat 3 around 135 mph right before landfall, that doomsday warning about the wind would have come true. Just look at the wind damage that Andrew left in south Florida making landfall as a cat 5. And that was a relatively compact in size, while Katrina was huge in comparison.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:59 am to notiger1997
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The last storm that somewhat affected Nola in a bad way was decades before. We should have planned for levee failures, but it’s hard to make people believe it was real.
That last major storm was Betsy in 1965... The MRGO wasn't completed till 1968 which was the main reason why New Orleans had major flooding 40 years later. Not only that it wasn't completed, it was four times the size in 2005.
Yes, the industrial canal wall failed and the the Lower 9 and beyond flooded badly, problem with Katrina, the outlying canals flooded and those wonderfully engineered T walls failed.
Now with the great wall built along the intercoastal, I fell much better, especially with no flooding after IDA with those strong east winds.
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 11:02 am
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:00 am to longhorn22
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staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawp with the katrina threads
This is the second time I've seen you enter a Katrina thread - a subject that you claim to not care about - and tell people to stop posting about it. Why are you like this?
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:05 am to Tiger Prawn
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At the time of that warning, she was a cat 5 packing 175 mph winds. If not for the weakening to a cat 3 around 135 mph right before landfall, that doomsday warning about the wind would have come true.
Well.. Katrina weakened and the wind prediction didn't come true. He didn't mention storm surge and flooding in the warning. Which is a huge swing and a miss.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:10 am to fightin tigers
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Not like the roof of the dome was ripped open and skyscraper windows were blown out all over downtown.
I was coming to post something similar. EVERYBODY had damage from the coast to the northshore and beyond. You don't see that with most hurricanes.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:12 am to East Coast Band
I got home about an hour ago.. and decided to take a nap... I had a dream that I was at work during Katrina.. I am in a bad arse mood right now... 20 years ago right now I was at work setting up to stay for Katrina.. I had seen my house not destroyed for the last time...
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:15 am to CocomoLSU
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It was the floods after the levees failed that caused the most damage.
Storm surge was over 100 feet in GoM.
I giggle when people say storm was not bad. Rather, it was the flooding.
Left nut and right nut are both nuts.
I hear your point. And while true the wind at landfall was not the biggest factor, she had already sealed fate with huge surge before landfall.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:16 am to glassman
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Well it didn't hit at 175 MPH winds, more like 115 or 110.
Well, I was in town during Katrina, and I saw wind gusts that flattened trees to the ground with windows blown out of the Galleria and billboard I-beams bent over 90 degrees... Ida didn't do any of that...
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 11:17 am
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:16 am to Snipe
This is the truest statement ever written on this website.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:16 am to OysterPoBoy
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Coolest August on record.
Totally accurate, but soys will say the “feels like temperature” was 110!!!
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:18 am to longhorn22
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staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawp with the katrina threads
Is t Katrina a German name?
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:19 am to Hangover Haven
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 11:20 am
Posted on 8/28/25 at 11:23 am to notiger1997
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When extreme events like this happen, nobody really believes it will be as bad as the experts predict.
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The Texas hill country floods this year and the NC area floods are proof. Mother Nature sneaks up on everyone at some point.
In comparison, this was in the NWS office forecast discussion the day prior to hurricane Helene making landfall:
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 11:32 am
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