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Pastimes : Hurricane and Severe Weather Tracking -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (2431)	8/29/2005 3:19:44 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26107

You meant to say "that far EAST" I see Lake Bourgne lies immedidately east of Lake Pontchartrain...and I still think it will track just a little further east than that even--the delta, perhaps the western eyewall brushes Lake Bourgne, and then on to Biloxi as it changes to a NNE track. Of course the Hurricane Center prefers to draw attention to the fact that the entire area under the Hurricane Warning is in fact the target. And it is very sensible to focus on a wider swath of potential devastation rather than where the eye happens to track. We are in agreement about the NHC, a very fine job. It matters not whether it is a direct hit in New Orleans or Biloxi, two full days of lead time for an event that they've been waiting decades for should have been enough warning to evacuate--and clearing out that entire lowlying area down there is all that I have heard over and over on teevee. I think the Mayor of New Orleans has been just outstanding--very serious, has never understated anything. Very pragmatic about a very bad situation. The only thing I would like to have heard was that Amtrak was running dozens of trains to help evacuate ahead of time. Maybe they did. Seeing cars backed up on the Interstate sure makes it seem like better Public transport was needed. I think the Weather Channel could have been much less repetitive and given a lot more local coverage rather than such generic repetition.