Katrina

Could be the perfect storm. The satelite picture basically shows the whole of the Gulf covered in cloud. The fastest way to keep updated is, surprise, Instapundit. Looks like Glenn is updating here.

MSM will have pictures and storm tracks and the like; bloggers will have this

I am in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and we are battening down the hatches here, too. My parents and in-laws, both living in New Orleans, left yesterday for parts north and west. As a child, I survived both Betsy and Camille, many more since then. This one scares me.
Clifford Grout writing to instapundit

Here is hoping Katrina stalls or swerves. But if she doesn’t blogs are going to have a lot more of the story than will fit MSM.

Update: From Suspect Devices:

Last year, I was worked a hurricane planning workshop in Baton Rouge, put on by the state’s Department of Homeland Security. It dealt with planning and response to a major SE Louisiana hurricane, complete with simulations and expert-designed projections, surveys, etc. A Cat3 making a direct hit on NOLA was projected to cause massive damage, far beyond what the average person might think. Consider the possibility of 18 feet of water in the CBD, a toxic soup of household and industrial chemicals floating around the flooded bowl that NOLA sits in and substantial, if not complete, destruction of homes and businesses along the river. Think floating corpses and balls of fire ants and gasoline and god knows what. If you stay and survive, search and rescue will not come after your ass for some time, and if they do they will be coming to take you out and nothing else. After they blow the levee and the water goes down, it’ll still be months before the city is livable. Casualties possibly in five figures.

That’s a Cat3. If Katrina makes landfall as a Cat5? The destruction will be apocalyptic.

Get out now.
suspect device

Yup.

Written by jay on August 29th, 2005 with 1 comment.
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