[achtung]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]Not to worry, I'll just merge them instead.
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Thanks:)

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

In a kind of strange way I think that would be neat to see.

[Bobboau]

superdome is going to hold 20-30,000, they are going to be there for a week or two.

[StratComm]

Believe me, you wouldn't want to be there to see it.  I've been in a hurricane once - and it was at best category 1 when it was as far inland as I lived - and it's not a pleasant thing to experience.  This thing has wind speeds of twice what I experienced, lots more rainfall, larger size, and just happens to be hitting the one place on the entire east coast that is both highly succeptable to flooding and a densely-packed city made of primarily low-to-medium grade housing and older, smaller buildings, all in one go.  I'm not trying to downplay the situation at all (I just think that the Superdome will be able to handle what's thrown at it).  It's as bad a weather disaster as you can get.

[Bobboau]

well I had better get my loot'n gear in oder and refuel the overcraft.

[Sigma957]

There wont be much worth looting afterwards.

[aldo_14]

It's been downgraded to cat 4 at the moment.  That's probably not a massive relief, of course.

[Bobboau]

made land fall, massive flooding everywere.

[aldo_14]

Nasty.

[Mongoose]

Haven't heard much about any flooding of the catastrophic level in New Orleans itself, but that could just be because it'll be a long while before news can get out easily.  From what I've heard, other than some minor roof damage, the Superdome's holding up pretty well.  I have heard that the storm surge is not as horrifically huge as was first feared, but it's still around 15-20 feet over much of the affected area, and New Orleans is by no means out of the woods.  Apparently, the Mississippi coast is getting the worst of the surge/wave damage.  I'm still praying that the city of New Orleans manages to pull through.

[aldo_14]

Was down to cat 2 last I heard.  The 'wrath of God' stuff would seem to be a bit hyperbolic......at least so far.

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by BlueFlames
Take your pick...

• Seasonal hurricanes in costal regions.
• Psychotic heat and forest fires in the Western US
• Tornados in the midwest US.
• Bitter, bitter cold and pounding (read: 'lake-effect' for the Northern US) snows to the 'extreme' north and south.
• Sandstorms in the middle east.
• Plague in Africa.
• Hole in the O-zone over Australia.

Seriously, it doesn't matter where you live because every locality has its own set of natural disasters to worry about.  Of course, since a lot of those natural disasters happen on a seasonal basis, the real solution is to be nomadic.  Food that isn't hunted is overrated anyway, right?  

Actually being nomadic won't help you at all as the weather ig getting incresingly beserk everywhere.

I live in a town where tens of thousands of turists from all over the world come trogh every summer.. and I tend to talk with them a lot.

They all complain about the ****ed up weather in the last few years and it's getting worse.. Seasons are no longer recognizible.
the global warming has practicly ruined the end of my summer as the temperature suddenly dropped drasticly which is unheard of in these parts. Normally such oddities happen from time to time, but are terribly rare (we're talking once every 50 years or so) but lately is becoming ever more drastic and more often.

anbd I have turists from all over Europe, US and some from asia saying teh climate is going to hell.

[aldo_14]

Scotland is fine.  Wet and cold, but no disasters here

[vyper]

Only MSPs.

[Mongoose]

I haven't noticed any irregularities in climate around where I live (Northeast US); things are pretty much the same as they have been for the past 10 or 15 years.

[WeatherOp]

Look at this. Aftermath in NO. Someone please change the title, Cause we have NEVER went through this before!

http://www.wdsu.com/video/4909353/detail.html

[Bobboau]

you know actualy I think they got off lucky, I was expecting it to be a whole bunch worse.

maybe they can turn this into a good thing, make NO into a sort of Venice type thing.

[WeatherOp]

Originally posted by Bobboau
you know actualy I think they got off lucky, I was expecting it to be a whole bunch worse.

They did, they got the weaker West side of the eyewall, if Kat had hit west of NO, it would be far worse. However the hardest hit areas, have not been herd from. As they got hit from a storm surge over 25 feet high. If thats the case, we have a new record in surge height.

[achtung]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hurricane_katrina

55 dead.

[Bobboau]

there is aparently wild looting,
thanks for talking me out of it

[WeatherOp]

I herd that another levee has broke and the french quarter, that didn't sustain much damage is now flooding.