Ike is headed towards New Orleans?

[thewiseguy]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0908W5+gif/025613W_sm.gif

[merwin]

1. For a minute I thought you were saying Ikea is headed for New Orleans.

And I immediately thought "Oh no! They're going to replace all of the damaged furniture with Ikea crap!"

[area51]

13. LOL.

:spank:

[ddeclue]

2. Who knows?

It could hit the east coast of Florida, the west coast of Florida, it could hit Cuba, it could hit Mississippi, Alabama or New Orleans.

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

[LeftyMom]

5. Honest question- how on earth do people down there deal with this?

I have precisely one person down there to worry about, and I can't deal with it.

[Lasher]

10. A friend of mine says he goes on vacation for a week if it looks like a hurricane is approaching.

He and the wife just take off.

[ddeclue]

11. I've been through 4 direct hits (one in Atlanta believe it or not) and a few near misses.

This may be a direct hit for us in Orlando or another near miss.

We have had 2 near misses this season: Fay (which caused a lot of flooding here still) and Gustav which is right now offshore headed north.

[frustrated_lefty]

17. It's where your job is

It's where you make a living, feed and house your family. When bad things happen, you hunker down and pray.

[sandnsea]

22. Maybe that's where the religiosity comes from

Tornado season and hurricane season. Preparing for a winter storm or going through a random earthquake is just not the same. Maybe if we all had to think about dying several times a year, we'd be more religious too. I don't know. Just a random thought.

[ThatsMyBarack]

3. Hasn't NOLA suffered enough!

:banghead:

[NightWatcher]

4. aw shit, they're not going to want to turn around after returning from Gustav

I really wish we had gotten that HAARP thing to work FOR us.

I'm loving this time of year. If it hits anything in Florida north of the keys, I'll be working it- trying to help evacuate people

[Suich]

6. What's the HAARP thing?

:shrug:

[NightWatcher]

7. the study/project to alter weather

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/

"HAARP is a scientific endeavor aimed at studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere, with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use it to enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and defense purposes.

The HAARP program is committed to developing a world class ionospheric research facility consisting of:

The Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high power transmitter facility operating in the High Frequency (HF) range. The IRI will be used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere for scientific study.
A sophisticated suite of scientific (or diagnostic) instruments that will be used to observe the physical processes that occur in the excited region.
Observation of the processes resulting from the use of the IRI in a controlled manner will allow scientists to better understand processes that occur continuously under the natural stimulation of the sun. "


using giant freakin lasers (or satellites) to alter the weather. Very Scifi kinda shiite

[LeftyMom]

9. We'd have to understand weather to be able to control it.

Based on how often the weather reports are wrong (okay, not here, but we don't have weather, only climate) I'd say that's a long way off.

I mean, look at Gustav. How many satellites and buoys and I know not what else, and they couldn't even tell if that would be a bigger than Katrina disaster or a whole lot of not much. How can you control something you can't even measure?

[Clear Blue Sky]

14. These hurricanes are incredibly complex.

Look at all the different models, each based on good science, but all predicting different tracks.

Good luck controlling these monsters...

[Suich]

12. LOL! Thanks!

I thought it had something to do with contra-flow! Weren't the Chinese saying they were able to control the weather during the Olympics?

[NightWatcher]

15. I dont recall anything getting rained out, plus the air was nice

:tinfoilhat:

[DCKit]

16. Radio and microwaves by heating the atmosphere at various levels.

But yeah, they may as well be herding cats for all the good it might do - or the potential for even greater damage.

[misanthrope]

19. Controlling weather would require...

...more energy than we can harness and direct.

[whistle]

8. Holy shit, Hanna must have diverted the storm

[merh]

23. looking at this image it looks like you could be right

[uppityperson]

18. Could be. Just for fun and comparisons, here is wunderground's map (taken from nhc data)...

I think many people are watching to see what happens. It could.

[misanthrope]

20. By that track...

...it looks as if it would make landfall about where Ivan did.

[dysfunctional press]

21. after the gustav evacuation for naught- many people won't evacuate if ike is on track for nola.

nt

[MountainLaurel]

27. That's so true

I'm in New Orleans, and everyone from the mailman to our neighbors are planning on staying.

[Strelnikov_]

24. ..

[malaise]

25. Way too early to tell

I hope not.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

26. Waaaay too early to tell for N.O. But anyone on the Gulf Coast should be watching.

For a day, they had the center line of projection heading right for South Florida where I am. I just about had a heart attack. Things look much better for us now, but I'm worried for anyone in the Gulf Coast, because once it gets in there, there's no way out except landfall.