2024 Tropical Weather Thread (4 Viewers)

yup - one of the reasons we always took off is we had people in Birmingham and then my parents lived in Chattanooga - after Katrina (my oldest born in '08) it was always a good excuse for grandparent visit

I wish I had family in locations to evacuate to but I really don't have any family that doesn't live here that isn't too far away to reasonably evacuate other than my wife's family in Alexandria, LA, but that's not really an option for many reasons I won't go into here other than to say that they have a lot of dogs which would be a problem with our cats. My brother does have a "cabin" in North Carolina, but that's an 11 hour drive each way which doesn't really work with pets and really to far to get back in town in a reasonable amount of time after a storm if the City is fine and my job wants me in the office. Plus, we thought it was a safe place from storms until last week. Plus he rents out that cabin at times so it's not always available.

Of course, staying with family can have it's own issues and in a situation like Katrina where a couple days turned into weeks or months, it has many problems.
 
I've had some bad luck lately. For Ida I had just adopted a puppy, and he was too young to be housebroken or have all his vaccinations, so he couldn't go anywhere.
This year the other puppy is in protocol for heartworm treatment - they're supposed to avoid exercise/exertion, so once again we couldn't go anywhere since the stress of the drive and new place/people/etc

Only reason I left for Katrina was I was not in a position to tell my mom I was staying. Ah to be young and "invincible" again

I had an eye doctor appointment set for 12:00 the Saturday before Katrina. They called around 10:00 to cancel. I was pissed because I couldn't figure out why they canceled. Then I turned on the news and found out why. The night before the last thing I heard was Bob Breck saying it was going to Florida.

We ended up evacuating to my wife's family in Alexandria, but only because I had a court appearance in Shreveport set for that Tuesday and I figured it would give me a head start for the trip while my wife visited family. Didn't think I wouldn't see my house again for over a month or that I would never live in that house again.
 
. The night before the last thing I heard was Bob Breck saying it was going to Florida.

We were at the last preseason game in Dome that Friday night- Bobs video came on the Jumbotron at half time and his patented high voice and pointing toward Mobile/Pensacola

never forget it...
 
We are in Wilma, Gilbert, Labor Day, Camille, Katrina and Rita territory as far as lowest pressures ever recorded. All those storms are considered historic and are some of the most disastrous hurricanes ever. Scary stuff.
That's the same wind speed and pressure Camille was when it slammed into Pass Christian Ms. It also
bought a 24 Ft storm surge.
 
That's the same wind speed and pressure Camille was when it slammed into Pass Christian Ms. It also
bought a 24 Ft storm surge.

so earlier this morning I was thinking about this- so i looked up Floridas western Continental Shelf....it extends out 200km from coast.

For Northern GOM ( LA/MS ) that distance is much less. ( its like 40 off mouth of river and like 80 toward Lake Charles )

In my peabrain- im wondering if that happens to play a part in storm surge. In that if the lower depths area is shorter ( from end of shelf to coast line ) , the deeper rising water "rushes" up the slope into shallower waters, lifting it higher than if it were to do same but over a much larger area of "continental shelf" and for an extended period of time
 
We were at the last preseason game in Dome that Friday night- Bobs video came on the Jumbotron at half time and his patented high voice and pointing toward Mobile/Pensacola

never forget it...
It was on the 10 p.m. newscasts that same night when the turn towards New Orleans was first broadcast. Living in Baton Rouge and not watching the news that night ... I didn't hear about it until the following morning. My wife and two-year-old daughter were visiting family in Gretna and she didn't have a car to drive back (I forget ... I think my in-laws picked them up earlier in the week or something). Anyway ... I remember high-tailing it to Gretna Saturday morning and high-tailing it back to B.R. to beat all the evacuees.

The I-10 back was mostly empty. Had I lollygagged and waited just a few more hours to pick up my wife & daughter ... we'd have been in 12 hours of gridlock.
 
so earlier this morning I was thinking about this- so i looked up Floridas western Continental Shelf....it extends out 200km from coast.

For Northern GOM ( LA/MS ) that distance is much less. ( its like 40 off mouth of river and like 80 toward Lake Charles )

In my peabrain- im wondering if that happens to play a part in storm surge. In that if the lower depths area is shorter ( from end of shelf to coast line ) , the deeper rising water "rushes" up the slope into shallower waters, lifting it higher than if it were to do same but over a much larger area of "continental shelf" and for an extended period of time
yes, shallow water increases surge. On the Ms. coast you can literally walk miles offshore and only be in knee deep
water.

by comparison the waters off the east coast of Florida get deep very close to shore. Andrew only had a 10 ft
surge when it struck Homestead.
 
I work at Keesler and met a few hurricane hunters. They said birds in the eye are not uncommon.
I always assumed that the birds are flying along with the storm in the calm of the eye which is how we got sea gulls flying around which we never see when Katrina's eye was over us.
 
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