Hurricane Katrina Storm Surge

[Piggie]

Ran across an interesting blog done on Katrina's Storm Surge.

Long read, I skimmed parts, read parts, looked at pictures.

Worth the time on a night that is all reality shows

Katrina's Surge, Table of Contents : Weather Underground

 

[Jason Fritz]

Worth the time on a night that is all reality shows

Which is pretty much every night.

Great link. Time did a great follow up on Katrina in 07 talking about the possibilities of another Hurricane causing just as much or more damage too. Link: The Threatening Storm - Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later - TIME

 

[Piggie]

What was good about the blog I posted is they didn't focus on New Orleans. Mississippi even right after the storm was forgotten.

Something that is still not well known was FEMA also ignored Mississippi. Most of the relief shipments and help to Mississippi was from neighboring states, mostly churches organizing supplies and man power. Much of the mess in Mississippi is still there and they were not given Fed funds, etc.

But we could do a thread how the next big disaster is not likely to be a hurricane and it could HUGE.....

 

[CptlA]

But we could do a thread how the next big disaster is not likely to be a hurricane and it could HUGE.....

What do you mean Piggie?

 

[Tim58hsv]

Barry Cowsill of the 60's pop group The Cowsills was apparently another victim of hurricane Katrina. I say 'apparently' because the circumstances of his death are a bit weird.

He and his sister Susan lived in New Orleans at the time but Susan left before the hurricane and Barry stayed behind. Three days later (sept. 1) Barry left a message on Susan's phone and was never heard from again.

On sept. 5 a news crew taped video footage of a homeless man believed to be Barry Cowsill but rather it was him or not was never confirmed.

Then on dec. 28, Barry's badly decomposed body was found. His death was believed to have been a drowning and no evidence of foul play was found...

 

[Piggie]

What do you mean Piggie?

Huge solar flares that happen every few hundred year or less. One has not happened in modern times with our satellites, power grid or communications systems.

In 1869 one hit and the only thing really happened were many telegraph wires were shorted out.

SPACE.com -- The Great Storm: Solar Tempest of 1859 Revealed

SPACE.com -- 150 Years Ago: The Worst Solar Storm Ever