*OFFICIAL* Hurricane Katrina thread

[TMFS9]

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Good luck to you as well

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Thanks

[theghost]

Good luck to everybody down there, take care of yourselves.

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"We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared," Mayor C. Ray Nagin said in ordering the mandatory evacuation for his city of 485,000 people, surrounded by suburbs of a million more. "The storm surge will most likely topple our levee system."


Conceding that as many as 100,000 inner-city residents didn't have the means to leave and an untold number of tourists were stranded by the closing of the airport, the city arranged buses to take people to 10 last-resort shelters, including the Superdome.

Nagin also dispatched police and firefighters to rouse people out with sirens and bullhorns, and even gave them the authority to commandeer vehicles to aid in the evacuation.

"This is very serious, of the highest nature," the mayor said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime event."

For years, forecasters have warned of the nightmare scenario a big storm could bring to New Orleans, a bowl of a city that's up to 10 feet below sea level in spots and dependent on a network of levees, canals and pumps to keep dry. It's built between the half-mile-wide Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, half the size of the state of Rhode Island.


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[KDawgCometh]

Bush has already delcared a state of emergency for the main gulf coast cities. I'm watching the weather channel and Katrina is stretching almost from the yucatan. THis is pretty sick

oh my god, Fox is showing it live right now and there's some guy out there surfing the waves right now. Wow. I just saw him with his surf board out in the water.

[utmt40]

Good for you schmuck.

[rusellmj]

Eh, I see them standing in front of the water. I think they thought they'd be cool, then they got there and saw the surf and realized how retarded it would be.

[utmt40]

Pressure up to 904 from 902

[wonderwes]

I have been through many hurricanes when I was a kid living in Houston, Tx. This hurricane is freaking huge. The size of the eye of the storm is incredible. This is prob the 2nd biggest I have witness in the gulf. Back I think in 1988 Hurricane Gilbert was the monster of them all. Tore straight through cancun, but luckily it hit rural Mexico south of texas.

After beeing in New Orleans for the May 2005 WSOP circuit, if that hurricane hits N.O. head on, it will be torn to shreads. So many of those buildings are decades old.

Prepare for floods.... from cable new organization reporters.

[Ed Miller]

I pray our city somehow survives in recognizable form. To anyone planning to ride out the storm... I hope you stay safe throughout.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

Why aren't everyone leaving? Too many similar warnings in the past?