[Stealth]

So i was just listening to the 6:00 news, and apparently the New Orleans mayor told the city that he recommends evacuating.  he said if it's absolutely necessary to stay, that people must go to the second floor, and bring an axe, so if necessary they can get to the roof; but he said he doesn't recommend anyone try to "sit out" the storm.  apparently there's lines of cars going out of the city, and it's taking like half a day just to get out of the city limits.

Not that any of this suprises me, i called this on Monday night.  Since the storm was already moving in the direction of New Orleans i'm suprised people didn't leave sooner.  

For those of you who don't know, New Orleans (city) in Louisiana is dozens of feet below sea level.  It keeps sinking further and further down every year.  so if it gets hit by this hurricane, there's not even going to be a city left anymore.

[Rictor]

oh no! All the whores and French cuisine, gone!

seriously, best of luck to whoever is caught in Ivan's way. I'm thankful for never having to have lived through a storm of that proportion.

[Clave]

Good luck to them..

I'm glad of the boring UK weather right now.

[Stealth]

well just watch in the next few days... i guarantee you that if it hits the city, there's not going to be a New Orleans anymore... it's going to be a disaster zone.

[karajorma]

God damn. Where am I going to get my fix of drunken girls flashing their boobs from now!

Seriously though I think you could be right about how bad this will be if it hits New Orleans.

[aldo_14]

Damn.

[vyper]

Golly ****ing gosh.

[aldo_14]

When was the last time a hurricane went as far into the continent as this one is predicted to, BTW?

[Clave]

That could get very nasty.  The hurricanes usually fizzle out very quickly when they lose contact with the ocean, but this may be an exception...

[Stealth]

but New Orleans is practically ON the ocean...

[Clave]

Indeed, but I was looking at the path through to Tenesee....

[Kazan]

aldo_14: the low always goes that far inland on that kind of track - just normally by the time it's fully inland it's weakened to less than tropical storm, just because s are strong, wet low pressure system


here watch her come ashore on the WSR88-D radar network http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p20-r/si.kmob.shtml


note: ivan has weakened from category 5 (156+ mph) to a category 4 (131-155) before even coming ashore (current max sustaned winds of 136 mph gusting to 154)

[Night Hammer]

Yeah weve gotten the remnants of hurricanes way the hell out here in west texas

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Kazan
aldo_14: the low always goes that far inland on that kind of track - just normally by the time it's fully inland it's weakened to less than tropical storm, just because s are strong, wet low pressure system


here watch her come ashore on the WSR88-D radar network http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p20-r/si.kmob.shtml


note: ivan has weakened from category 5 (156+ mph) to a category 4 (131-155) before even coming ashore (current max sustaned winds of 136 mph gusting to 154)

Ah, right.  (I kind of made a assumption that it wouldn't be losing strength inland, which is pretty a bloody daft assumption in retrospect.  I should have known that already, to be honest...)

Cheers.

[Kazan]

the remnants of Andrew made it all the way to iowa

[Bobboau]

looks like that _might_ _almost_ make it to were I live

[Solatar]

Stupid pansies are thinking about canceling cross country meets in Nashville (highschool) on Saturday because of rain....

[Ford Prefect]

Well I would hope that New Orleans could at least be spared until I can see what Mardi Gras is really like.

[Thorn]

"My memory is muddy, what's this river I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking, man, and I don't want to swim."
-The Tragically Hip

[JR2000Z]

Meh, I never liked those southern states anyway. Too many rednecks.