How's Aleit doing in New Orleans?
Swayze
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Hope he is making it to safer ground.oh yeah--and i hope his records are too.
Swayze
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Hollar if you're okay A**.
Hold it down. Protect your neck, and then your raer.
WWUS74 KLIX 281550NPWLIXURGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005
DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED
HURRICANE KATRINAA MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969. MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. ATLEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE. HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT. AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATEADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK. POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING... BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEWCROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BEKILLED.AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEARHURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE OUTSIDE!
yikes. some of the phrases in there...just incredible. my thoughts go out to everyone in new orleans, my favorite city.
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On a more insignificant note, just heard a report that oil just reached a new record of $70 a barrel!!! Shit gonna be rough for a while!
dude has anybody ever been in a hurricane?
i was in one as a baby but i don't remember it.
Hurricane Gloria in 1985, passed right over my town and took a huge oak tree down onto our garage. I don't know how fast the winds were, or what category it was. It was kind of awesome though, I remember the tree snapped on the last round of wind right before the eye came. So we all went out to look at it for a bit, then the wind picked up again and we had to go back inside. Wild when you're ten years old.
Yeah, I remember Gloria, I was 11 years old. It had minimal impact on upstate NY but I remember we got to go home from school early. I remember that and the Challenger blowing up the same school year. I think Gloria was a kiss on the cheek compared to what is about to hit NOLA though.
I was in andrew (and katrina 3 days ago), and it was loony. Even just catching the north side of it took out the national hurricane center, which scared the hell out of me as i was in a shelter accross the street from it. my folks place lost power for three weeks, and they were one of the lucky ones - some went out for six-eight weeks.
South Dade county fl was completely taken out - homestead was flattened. whole housing developments were ripped to shreds -- and that was in a city built for this weather. NO is fucked. Too much political bullshit to take preventative measures - and now the people will pay forit. I fear my cousin's beautiful house in mid city is gonna be totaled.
Where in south dade were you? I was in Perrine w/ my mom locked in closet. She was praying like a mad women. We got lucky because we were on a 1st floor apartment and didn't lose our roof. Less then a block away houses were in shambles with roofs missing or just a vacant lot.We went over a month w/out power cooking canned pasta w/ sternos. Like dude said homestead was wiped away. The funked up thing is alot of that population was made up of low income immigrant workers who lost everything. You can still go down south and see plywood over windows w/ " you loot we shoot" spray painted on them. Sad to say but NO looks like it might be washed away.
again I hope everyone makes it out ok...
Hurricane Iwa in November 1982. Considering where we lived at the time, a house that was pretty much termite ridden, we were lucky that the house stayed up. My dad was still alive, so it was him, me, and my sister in the house, while my mom was at work. I believe she stayed the night there. It was 75-85mph, but with no land to slow down the storm, where can one go? That's the only one I've been through.
That was nothing like what it sounds like Nawlins is about to experience, though. MAN. Hope it doesn't end up being that bad.
Witness drastic price increase in local New Orleans records as supplies are offically "non-replenishing."
This storm looks like some scary shit for real though. Having to camp out in the Superdome is just too crazy to contemplate.
i was in Charleston SC during Hurricane Hugo (1989, above). too scared to live on the SE coast ever since.
this shit is so scary.
Forecasters predicted the storm surge could reach 28 feet; the highest levees around New Orleans are 18 feet high."
Damn.
double damn. still trying to find out if a buddy of mine got out OK. He's probably fine....I really feel for folks who don't have much in terms of resources(car,cash,family,etc)in a situation like this. Mother Nature is one humbling force.
Cue Mike Vague Jim Russell backstock
That's who I'm most worried about.
I am safe and in Texas for the time being until things settle.
I moved 25 boxes of records up to the third floor of a friend's modern apartment building late on saturday night. I can only hope that they are safe there, but considering my first story apt in a 100 year old building w/ paper thin windows, they will much safer in their current location.
As for other personal belongings, hard to tell what has become of them until I am able to return to New Orleans. But it looks like the worst has passed. I've been glued to the TV since 6:00 AM.
In any case, I can only hope for the safety of other communities all along the gulf coast- this is a serious storm, diminishing but still brutal.
As far as hikes in NOLA records- the least of my worries or concerns. If I still have records when I get back home, feel free to support some sales!!! I will now definitely need the cash.
Thanks for the wishes and concern.
Thanks for taking a minute to check in. I was thinking about you this morning watching the footage.
Keep us updated if you can, please.
Best.
For those watching the news, things look quite grim in the aftermath for the gulf coast. Despite some optimism about New Orleans when Katrina hit yesterday, the aerial footage looks awful. They are estimating that 80% of the city is underwater, some areas up to 15 - 20 feet, especially around the 9th Ward and New Orleans East. Obviously power is out for more than 1 million people on the coast, but there are also water main breaks, gas leaks around the city, and a number of fires that have broken out.
What's crazier is the warning of poisonous snakes, alligators, and fire ants that have been blown into the city. They are saying that it will be at least a week before they start letting any of the folks who evacuated back into the city.
So now I must figure out where the next move is from Austin as I continue to kill time and money waiting to come home to assess the damage. Of course the important thing is that I'm alive and all the folks who I know along the coast that I have been able to reach are safe. But my heart goes out to those who stayed to ride out the storm or who had no choice. If you notice who was left at the Superdome, you'll get an understanding of how things work in the city I live in. They have no sense of the death count in New Orleans at this point, but I can guarantee it won't look good. Water filled up homes in only a matter of minutes and they are saying that it is still rising at 1 inch per hour although it is starting to settle.
In any case, holler if you're in the south. I'm debating heading back to Detroit but shit, that's probably 1500 miles from where I am.
Peace.