Hurricane question.

[TNDemo]

My daughter has evacuated NO with her boyfriend's family to a relative's house in Mississippi. This is just about 15 miles over the Mississippi line so I guess about an hour or so inland from the coast. I told her that if this thing jumps up to a cat. 4 or 5 that they ought to think about getting further inland. When Camille struck, how far inland did the major destruction go?

[fishnfla]

1. That far inland they should be safe(r)

The coast gets the most damage, from storm surge and strongest winds.
They will still experience powre outage and tree damage, but in a sturdy house they will be safe.

I was in Camille as a child in NO. The coast got wacked

[merh]

2. Check out the images from this web site

Destruction did happen inland, depending on the path of the storm.

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/about_us/meet_us//roger_pielke/camille/gallery.html

Hurricanes are not predictable, we don't know how many tornadoes can be spawned when it hits land. Hurricane Frederick in the late 70's didn't cause as much destruction when it hit, but it smacked the hell out of a lot of cities inland, 100 miles north of land fall.

The winds, the rains and the tornadoes are the continue threat that these things bring with them.

I pray your daughter is with folks that are seasoned in dealing with hurricanes. When they come, all you can do is sit tight in safe rooms and wait for them to pass.

:grouphug: I pray all are safe in the path of this storm.

[trof]

3. Not so much the hurricane, but tornados.

Hurricanes can generate tornados.
They can reach farther inland that the hurricane force winds.
Not to make you worry.
They're hit or miss.

[geomon666]

4. Camille was still a hurricane by the time it passed the middle of Miss.

Camille had a sustained wind velocity of 200 mph and a storm surge over 25ft.

Look familiar?

[pitohui]

5. now ask abt ivan

i evacuated to western north carolina area for that one

in that area an entire village of 30 or so ppl, they prob. still don't know the exact number, was wiped out by ivan sending a mudslide down the mtn

there were parts of major highways that completely collapsed

a storm this size...all bets are off

i thought i did the right thing going north

i ended up right in the track

not a drop of rain from ivan at my home

i have no useful advice

just tell her to hunker down & take care


we all do the best we can but no one knows where this thing is going

[skeeterintexas]

6. My daughter left N.O. for Baton Rouge

What a way to start your freshman year at college, huh? Oh, and classes haven't even starte yet.

The problem is usually flooding. N.O. floods really bad since it's below sea level. DD & some of her friends are traveling to Baton Rouge to stay with friends at LSU.

They'll get lots of wind and rain up there but at least there shouldn't be the flooding like N.O. could see.

[trof]

7. Aw, man? I remember when my daughter was off at college.

Remnants of Hurriccane Bob hit the campus.
I was manic.
700 miles away.
Hope she comes through OK.

[nytemare]

8. I was in Orlando for Charley, which was 100+ miles as the crow flies

from where it hit the coast, and we had significant damage.

Thing was, this storm is moving MUCH slower than Charley, and looks much bigger. This means longer exposure to high winds and buckets of rain. I would tell her to go east or west of the storm's path.