Early Reports: Mississippi Coast Gone in Record 37ft surge

[Mempho]

Looks real bad. A truly catastrophic hit.

[jokerthief]

Damn, that sounds like a tsunami.

[Mempho]

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Damn, that sounds like a tsunami.

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Read the report from Jim Cantore's Weather Channel crew here:

"We Thought We Were Safe (http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/?from=wxcenter_news)

Also, reports continue to flood chaser sites:

Early Reports (http://flhurricane.com/cyclone/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=52009&page=0&fpart=9&vc= 1)

[tek]

Where are the casino boats--just floating aimlessly in the Gulf?

[Mempho]

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Where are the casino boats--just floating aimlessly in the Gulf?

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No one knows...check the NOAA link out from a buoy just off Biloxi...I don't think they could have survived this.

Incoming Tidal Wave Report (http://www.stormsurf.com/cgi-bin/4cast.cgi?ID=wna.42007)

[JihadOnTheRiver]

As per my "loc:", I truly hope MS is gone...

[Clarkmeister]

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/

[BobK]

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Grand Casino Biloxi washed across U.S. 90. Treasure Bay's pirate ship was beached. Beau Rivage still stood, while Hard Rock Casino -- scheduled to open in early September - was half destroyed. Hard Rock's signature guitar, touted as the world's largest, survived the lashing.

In Gulfport, the Copa Casino barge sat on land next to the Grand Casino parking garage. The western Grand Casino barge, containing Kid's Quest, was swept around the west side of the hotel and now blocks U.S. 90.

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Clipped from this link Mississippi blog (http://eyesonkatrina.blogspot.com/)
Things are pretty rough down there I guess.
The humidity has to be a real killer this time of year without water and power.

[Quicksilvre]

Thirty-seven feet? Is that even possible? I thought that storm surges topped out at about 25 feet (though I understand that geography can push surges higher).

[fsuplayer]

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http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/

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some of those pics in that link are astounding.

very sad.

[Mempho]

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Thirty-seven feet? Is that even possible? I thought that storm surges topped out at about 25 feet (though I understand that geography can push surges higher).

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I thought so, too. However, it is verified that there were places where it exceeded 30ft. The Hancock County Emergency Management Headquarters was at 31ft elevation and took on over a foot of water during the height of the storm. Officials there were shocked and they knew what that meant.

The sheer geographic size of the storm and the fact that it was a strong Cat 5 for a long time over the gulf probably allowed it to "bulldoze" massive amounts of water. Even though it weakened some, the cards were already obviously dealt. Also, the continental shelf in that region is very large, meaning that there is a large amount of shallow water (making the storm surge even larger).

[Spaded]

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Where are the casino boats--just floating aimlessly in the Gulf?

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They ripped from their mooring and settled on apartment complexes. Saw shots on CNN.

[Quercus]

Hopefully now the Mississippi legislature will allow the new casinos to be built on land. In the pictures with the barges, you can see that most of the land-based hotels that go along with them survived pretty much intact.

[Mempho]

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Hopefully now the Mississippi legislature will allow the new casinos to be built on land. In the pictures with the barges, you can see that most of the land-based hotels that go along with them survived pretty much intact.

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Agreed

[wacki]

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Thirty-seven feet? Is that even possible? I thought that storm surges topped out at about 25 feet (though I understand that geography can push surges higher).

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If the Canary islands go, the east coast will be hit with a wave over 1,600 feet high.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/mega_tsunami.shtml