Stay safe and good luck!!!!!

 

[QUOTE=tritium_pie,Aug 28 2005, 02:31 PM] holy f*ckin shit. Category 5 hurricane. winds 175+ mph. strongest hurricane since 1969.


Actually the strongest strom is Andrew 215 MPH. Katrina is the biggest.

 

[QUOTE=F1s2000,Aug 29 2005, 07:58 AM] The National Hurricane Center says Andrew had winds of 145mph at landfall, at 922 mb pressure.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/Deadliest_Costliest.shtml

Katrina was a cat 4 storm when it hit, from what I can tell.

 

I love New Orleans. Great city. It would be sad to see some of those old buildings get damaged and I feel bad for a lot of people down there because there is quite a bit of poverty and some shaky homes that folks live in. I hope the area is not destroyed because I am looking forward to my next trip down there.


There are, however, lots of criminals and street thugs and muggers, etc. I hope they get washed out to sea.

 

Gust winds were as high or even higher than 175 mphs. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1992andrew.html

The maximum sustained surface wind speed (1-min average at 10 meters [about 33 ft] elevation) during landfall over Florida is estimated at 125 kt (about 145 mph), with gusts at that elevation to at least 150 kt (about 175 mph

It is unlikely that this point observation was so fortuitously situated that it represents a sampling of the absolute strongest wind. The Fowey Rocks log (not shown) indicates that the wind speed increased through 0800 UTC. Unfortunately, Fowey Rocks then ceased transmitting data, presumably because even stronger winds disabled the instrumentation. (A subsequent visual inspection indicated that the mast supporting the anemometer had become bent 90 degrees from vertical.) Radar reflectivity data suggests that the most intense portion of Andrew's eyewall had not reached Fowey Rocks by 0800 UTC and that the wind speed could have continued to increase there for another 15 to 30 minutes. A similar conclusion can be reached from the pressure analysis in Fig. 4 which indicates that the pressure at Fowey Rocks probably fell by about another 20 mb from the 0800 UTC mark of 968 mb.

Some assumed gust of 215. Because the transmitter went out because of higher winds than 175 mph.

Although Katrina is a bad storm and I hope everyone will be ok it is nothing compared to Andrew.

 

Oh and take a look at some of the pics from Andrew.

 

Andrew contained a multitude of tornados within the eye-wall and outer bands, which is where the extreme damage comes from. Katrina, although a larger Cat-5 storm, does not have as many tornados associated with it, and as a result will not have the same type of damage.

Andrew>Katrina

 

New Orleans got spared from the full force of the storm.. it moved East right when it was about to make landfall.

 

Thank God..... I just got my power back from Katrina since it went out on Thursday.

 

Wow!!!! I can't believe people are already lotting.