Weather geeks are freaking out ("worst storm ever")

[blitzen]

link to a good weather blog:

http://www.weatherunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=79&tstamp=200508#commenttop

I'm not sure if they really know what they're talking about, but some of them are pretty alarmed.

[merh]

1. It is a pretty scarey storm.

:scared: Thanks for the link.

[Horse with no Name]

2. Read it and weep. Seriously.

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_neworleans.html

[H5N1]

9. oh... that's depressing

[still_one]

3. they say New Orleans could have parts under 20 feet of water

the dams will not hold

Why doesn't our idiot president activate the armed forces to help with the evacuation?

[NYC]

5. Probably because most of them

are in Iraq.

[Bluebear]

6. Shhh he is sleeping right now

Brush to clear tomorrow.

[Hardrada]

7. He is still on vacation

and can't be disturbed while riding his bike.

[lavenderdiva]

11. on another thread here on DU, but still on this same topic,

one poster said that Mary Landrieu came out and said that Louisiana had 3000 National Guard members, BUT they were all in Iraq. There's noone to send, even if Shrub did quit clearing brush, get off his bike, and make some HARD decisions.... :sarcasm:

[steve2470]

4. Andrew and Camille were very bad. Hope this doesn't beat them nt

[steve2470]

8. Hugo was also really bad. Hurricane in 1900 killed 6000 in Galveston nt

[Renew Deal]

10. One guy estimates 300,000 dead

I wouldn't take that seriously, but here it is.

Posted By: Orleans77 at 2:21 AM GMT on August 28, 2005.
its an awful attitude..some guy on Fox ..former FEMA official jus said that 50% of all that stay in NO would die in a cat 4/5 direct hit on NO...50% of 600,000 = 300,000 dead...this would be our Tsunami

[lavenderdiva]

12. The Orleans parish Coroner

(this is the parish New Orleans is in) reportedly has 10,000 body bags on hand, ready. Very Scary thought.

[wake.up.america]

13. And I thought we had weather problems here.

[Daphne08]

14. I'm very worried.

I was born in Louisiana and still have immediate family there. Although they don't live on the coast, we love New Orleans and have many friends and relatives there (and on the Mississippi coast).

New Orleans is a very unique city -- so much history there.

This does look like a really bad hurricane. :scared:

[riverwalker]

15. OMG

"its an awful attitude..some guy on Fox ..former FEMA official jus said that 50% of all that stay in NO would die in a cat 4/5 direct hit on NO...50% of 600,000 = 300,000 dead...this would be our Tsunami"