by Nameless » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:09 am
The official elevation of New Orleans is 12 feet below sea level (-12 feet) I think from what I've heard they have been saying 100 mph sustained winds in the city, with gusts to 120 or so...my guess is the Superdome could stand up to 200 mph gusts. They have a pretty good feeling that tomorrow morning the field level will all be flooded. And also they are talking potentionaly months before they can pump all the water out of the city. So a long time before people can return to their homes then. Another thing to consider though is that there are sometimes alot of tornado's with hurricanes, so who says the Superdome wont get hit by a tornado and the 20,000-30,000 people in there would unofortunatly die. It just seems like it would be a big bullseye for a tornado to hit.
Edit: I also just heard that New Orleans could see hurricane force winds for about 10 hours! Also they think the storm will hit the coast in about 6 or 7 hours, thank God that there is not much population on the Louisiana coast. It's just there is a metro area of 1.4 million people just inland that alot of it is 5-10 feet below sea level. Last I heard they were looking for about an 8am central time arrival around the New Orleans area. Also area's like Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi could get very bad surge and winds along with of course rain. They have some casino's on the water in those areas that might float out to sea. And Mobile, Alabama is even getting some affects from the storm, they are expecting the bay to overflow into the downtown area and 8-10 blocks inland will be underwater. Not to mention bad beach erosion even in Florida.
Another thing they are excepecting hurricane force winds through most of Mississippi, and tropical storm force through Tennessee. I'll try to find a pic with color now.
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Nameless on Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:28 am, edited 2 times in total.