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To: steve harris who wrote (151054)	12/14/2005 10:15:16 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

Yes, that is true. I'm sure the Advanced Search feature here would bring out some of the reports that were rapidly coming in....Nice find!

To: steve harris who wrote (151054)	12/14/2005 10:36:01 PM
From: Stevefoder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

Re: "category 4 strength" Category strength is based on wind speed alone. Since Katrina was a cat 5 just before landfall, the storm surge was still cat 5 intensity. It takes a day or two for the storm surge to drop in line with wind speed. That is why Katrina's storm surge was so devastating particularly to Mississippi. If I remember right the storm surge was about 25 feet. Katrina was incredibly devastating. New Orleans is only 1/3 of the story (but most of the deaths since so many decided to wait out the storm at home).

To: steve harris who wrote (151054)	12/14/2005 11:49:21 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 793838

You need some basic geography and reading comprehension courses. Yes, she was a cat. 4 when she made landfall at the coast. NO is not at the coast, ergo, she did not make landfall at NO. By the time she got here, after travelling over land, she naturally had weakened. She was a cat. 3 when she arrived. Nice find, indeed.

To: steve harris who wrote (151054)	12/15/2005 11:02:53 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

Forget the rating. Visualize the physics of the storm. New Orleans was west of the eye. The winds were going off shore as the eye made land fall. Thus the storm surge would be far far less. It's a storm driven on shore surge that is really deepest and destructive. This occurs more on the east of the eye part of the storm.

To: steve harris who wrote (151054)	12/15/2005 11:04:57 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

Guess that c2 has me on ignore. Perhaps he thought I was asking too many questions, or perhaps he knows that there are problems with the NO and LA folks that are beyond Bush's fault. The whole thing is so sad. The press isn't telling the story about much of anything there. What happened in the past to make so much more damage ~~ what's happening to the area now ~~ and what is to be done in the future to try to avoid such massive problems in the future....