Fragamemnon
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I've been watching this storm develop with increasing horror over the past eighteen hours or so. Here's the skinny, in pictoral format:
Katrina is currently undergoing eyewall replacement but most of the models have it reaching top winds between 120 and 130 knots (140-150 mph) when it makes landfall. The curvature seen in the forecast map above is already happening, and the forecast models are converging about as well as they possibly can:
I'm most worried about New Orleans, the classic "worst case scenario" city. The city is essentiually at the bottom of a "bowl" and, in most parts of it, the only way to remove water once it is there is through pumping it out since most of it lies below sea level. I'd think hard about evacuation if you're in New Orleans. Stay safe people, and hopefully this storm will take out some piece of shit place in Texass or Mississippi instead of hitting the Crescent City, truly one of the Southeast's few unique treasures.

Katrina is currently undergoing eyewall replacement but most of the models have it reaching top winds between 120 and 130 knots (140-150 mph) when it makes landfall. The curvature seen in the forecast map above is already happening, and the forecast models are converging about as well as they possibly can:

I'm most worried about New Orleans, the classic "worst case scenario" city. The city is essentiually at the bottom of a "bowl" and, in most parts of it, the only way to remove water once it is there is through pumping it out since most of it lies below sea level. I'd think hard about evacuation if you're in New Orleans. Stay safe people, and hopefully this storm will take out some piece of shit place in Texass or Mississippi instead of hitting the Crescent City, truly one of the Southeast's few unique treasures.