Reply #: Your timing is off [View All]

[Boomer]

Katrina left Florida a Cat 1 and almost immediately exploded into a Cat 3 when it hit the warm Gulf waters. At that point, with several days of travel over the gulf before landfall, the predictions were that it would reach Cat 4.

So by Friday it was fairly clear that a strong hurricane was headed right for the area between Louisiana and the Florida panhandle.

I remember thinking on Friday that if I lived in New Orleans, I'd be taking a weekend vacation NOW. The consequences of a hit are so devastating that some false alarms are a small price to pay.