there's so much sadness in the world... >.< i hate thinking about all the families who have been separated by death... such are the effects of sin...
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there's so much sadness in the world... >.< i hate thinking about all the families who have been separated by death... such are the effects of sin...
New Orleans is an awesome place, and I hope it doesn't get damaged too badly by this thing. A few days ago it was projected to come up through Georgia (though, once it made landfall, it would lose most of its steam), which was rather worrisome for me. Hurricanes are so unpredictable, this situation is, at the very least, interesting.
Thanks for the links =)Quote:
Originally Posted by eestlinc
I used to live in Biloxi, Mississippi ( about an hour and a half from New Orleans ) and that's where my father is staying ( in the Keesler Medical Center - Keeseler = Air Force Base ). I'm worried about him but I know he'll be fine. The hospital has survived through Camile . . . but with Katrina being even worse then Camile I'm not sure what to expect.
I'm flying down in December for Christmas and I don't really know if I'll have the same home to go to.
I go to bed tonight with the hope that the carnage is not too bad when I wake up tomorrow.
I want to know, where is the hurricane next stop after its frist stop?
Well, it first hit Southern Florida before making its way to the west and into The Gulf of Mexico where it will directly hit New Orleans in a matter of hours. After that, it will lose some of it's strength and become just a "tropical storm" again (or something like that) and many of the more northern states will feel its effects. Not to mention the states bordering Louisiana to the East, such as Alabama and parts of Florida, that will also face some of the hurricane's wrath once it makes landfall. I live in Kentucky and the local news has forecasted heavy rains and 40+ mph winds as well as isolated thunderstorms for Tuesday and Wednesday because of it.
And I think states even further north are expected to get some bad weather.
I really hope it doesn't hit...there's so much history there, structures that are irriplacible...not to mention all the people who will lose homes.
25,000 deaths is far too many. I don't want this to happen. I hear they are herding up thousands of people and sheltering them in some arena, but they don't know if the arena is enough to protect them. It's hard to imagine that they have packed thousands of people into what could become a 'death dome'.
That's a really weird projection. These things are supposed to get smaller as they move over land, not larger.
They get weaker, but not necessarily smaller. In fact, they may get weaker because they grow larger.
Think diffusion - an odor generated from a certain point in a room will at first be very powerful at that point only and present nowhere else, and much later it will be very faint but present throughout the room.
Is anybody happening to watch CNN right now? If so, did you see the weatherman yell at that lady?
I still find it hard to believe that this is hapening... I hope those people are alright.
That's what I figured. Excellent fart analogy, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by -N-
No, the white area is where the hurricane center could go. It gets wider because there is more uncertainty about the path it will follow the farther in time you project. this is the wind swath map:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphi...084619P_sm.gif