Running Hurricane Gustav thread

[Bob Cook]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

On a lighter note (while we perhaps can still be light), last night I saw a news crawl during Demo convention coverage that said the hurricane would go through Haiti and hit the "Florida Straights."

So gay people in Florida, you are safe.

 

[Italian_Stallion]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

The photo is from Monday. Fay's rains pretty much ceased at noon on Friday. But the water is just sticking around. It's some smelly ****, too. I can't imagine what that **** smelled like in New Orleans.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

The photo is from Monday. Fay's rains pretty much ceased at noon on Friday. But the water is just sticking around. It's some smelly ****, too. I can't imagine what that **** smelled like in New Orleans.

As in... yesterday?

 

[Batman]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

I always thought New Orleans was worse off with a storm that hit on the east side? Makes the wind push Lake Pontchartrain to the south, right toward the city.

In any event, SportsJournalists.com folks in the Gulf South might want to get a couple extra cans of gas now. Remember Katrina? The gas lines? Hard to get gas for the generator when there's a) no power to run the pumps; and b) 500 people waiting in line at the one station that does have power -- behind some douchebag filling up his pickup truck, three 55-gallon drums, and the 50-gallon emergency tank lining the truck bed.
If the storm goes somewhere else, you can dump the gas into your car next week.

 

[Italian_Stallion]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

The photo is from Monday. Fay's rains pretty much ceased at noon on Friday. But the water is just sticking around. It's some smelly ****, too. I can't imagine what that **** smelled like in New Orleans.

As in... yesterday?

Yes. They've been pumping it out since Friday morning.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

I always thought New Orleans was worse off with a storm that hit on the east side? Makes the wind push Lake Pontchartrain to the south, right toward the city.

That can be bad, but because of a hurricane's counter-clockwise motion, stirring in the Gulf south-southwest of New Orleans and make landfall to the west would dump a lot more storm surge and rain on the city at the worst possible time.

Frankly, because of the way New Orleans is trapped by water on all four sides, it's bad no matter what happens.

 

[Football_Bat]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

Even if you don't live in a hurricane-prone area ... it would be prudent to fill up today if possible, because gas went up a nickel today just on a threat.

Why do oil companies hike gas prices at the drop of a hat and drop them so slowly? Because they can.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

I always thought New Orleans was worse off with a storm that hit on the east side? Makes the wind push Lake Pontchartrain to the south, right toward the city.

That can be bad, but because of a hurricane's counter-clockwise motion, stirring in the Gulf south-southwest of New Orleans and make landfall to the west would dump a lot more storm surge and rain on the city at the worst possible time.

Frankly, because of the way New Orleans is trapped by water on all four sides, it's bad no matter what happens.

NO is surrounded by water ... and sitting in a bowl.

You are exactly right. Don't want to get hit by the east side of the storm.

Been hit direct from the east by Category 1 Katrina (decelerated to a TS by the time the east side of the storm hit) and from the south by a Cat 1 Irene. Nothing. I mean nothing, though Irene was wet

Nothing like getting walloped by the east side of Wilma as a strong 1 as it moved east.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

True dat, about the bowl. I should have said New Orleans is surrounded by water on all five sides.

 

[Angola!]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

I always thought New Orleans was worse off with a storm that hit on the east side? Makes the wind push Lake Pontchartrain to the south, right toward the city.

That can be bad, but because of a hurricane's counter-clockwise motion, stirring in the Gulf south-southwest of New Orleans and make landfall to the west would dump a lot more storm surge and rain on the city at the worst possible time.

Frankly, because of the way New Orleans is trapped by water on all four sides, it's bad no matter what happens.

NO is surrounded by water ... and sitting in a bowl.

You are exactly right. Don't want to get hit by the east side of the storm.

Been hit direct from the east by Category 1 Katrina (decelerated to a TS by the time the east side of the storm hit) and from the south by a Cat 1 Irene. Nothing. I mean nothing, though Irene was wet

Nothing like getting walloped by the east side of Wilma as a strong 1 as it moved east.

Katrina was only a Category 1 when it hit New Orleans?

 

[dixiehack]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

I always thought New Orleans was worse off with a storm that hit on the east side? Makes the wind push Lake Pontchartrain to the south, right toward the city.

That can be bad, but because of a hurricane's counter-clockwise motion, stirring in the Gulf south-southwest of New Orleans and make landfall to the west would dump a lot more storm surge and rain on the city at the worst possible time.

Frankly, because of the way New Orleans is trapped by water on all four sides, it's bad no matter what happens.

NO is surrounded by water ... and sitting in a bowl.

You are exactly right. Don't want to get hit by the east side of the storm.

Been hit direct from the east by Category 1 Katrina (decelerated to a TS by the time the east side of the storm hit) and from the south by a Cat 1 Irene. Nothing. I mean nothing, though Irene was wet

Nothing like getting walloped by the east side of Wilma as a strong 1 as it moved east.

Katrina was only a Category 1 when it hit New Orleans?

South Florida

 

[Football_Bat]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

Just saw on TWC there's a depression developing in the NE Caribbean (that could be trouble for the eastern seaboard) and a Cape Verde getting organized. Looks like it's go time.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

Reminder: Katrina did not hit New Orleans. Katrina made landfall to the east of New Orleans. I shudder to think what might have happened there had it come ashore more westerly, just south and west of New Orleans.

My buddies in Mississippi would probably still have their homes, though.

 

[KG]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

It seems like the Caribbean is suddenly waking up for the hurricane season, even though we are already on the seventh storm.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

Just saw on TWC there's a depression developing in the NE Caribbean (that could be trouble for the eastern seaboard) and a Cape Verde getting organized. Looks like it's go time.

Did you see that on TV, or do you have a link from the Web site?

 

[Football_Bat]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

Just saw on TWC there's a depression developing in the NE Caribbean (that could be trouble for the eastern seaboard) and a Cape Verde getting organized. Looks like it's go time.

Did you see that on TV, or do you have a link from the Web site?

Mentioned on TV at :50 past.

 

[Angola!]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

Just saw on TWC there's a depression developing in the NE Caribbean (that could be trouble for the eastern seaboard) and a Cape Verde getting organized. Looks like it's go time.

Did you see that on TV, or do you have a link from the Web site?

Mentioned on TV at :50 past.

What is a Cape Verde?

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

Just saw on TWC there's a depression developing in the NE Caribbean (that could be trouble for the eastern seaboard) and a Cape Verde getting organized. Looks like it's go time.

Did you see that on TV, or do you have a link from the Web site?

Mentioned on TV at :50 past.

What is a Cape Verde?

By Senegal off Africa.

 

[Italian_Stallion]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

Here you go.

Two are not favorable for development. But that could change with one of the two. The third storm is expected to develop, but there's still a lot of blue between it and the United States. The fact is that they're just rolling in one after the other right now.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

Here you go.

Two are not favorable for development. But that could change with one of the two. The third storm is expected to develop, but there's still a lot of blue between it and the United States. The fact is that they're just rolling in one after the other right now.

Doesn't the orange mean two ARE favorable for development?