Consider this question regardless of where you live geographically. Would you have a place to go?
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With all of the attention on Gustav, has anyone been watching Hanna? Hanna formed in a location in the Atlantic that usually means it will blow Northwest and die out in the North Atlantic somewhere only causing an inconvenience for ships in the area. Ah, but none of the hurricanes have been acting as we think they should and what was once believe an impossibility, now isn’t. And that is?
Hanna could follow Gustav into the Gulf of Mexico!
And before it gets there, Haiti could get slammed for the second time in ten days. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is now projecting a path that would do exactly that- which was not in the cards five days ago. What was a relatively quiet Hurricane season for Haiti changed dramatically when a tropical wave surprised everyone and instantly gained strength and became Tropical Storm Fay, leaving a trail of death across the island.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, Florida was forecasting that Tropical Storm Hanna will reach hurricane strength soon and that it will turn more northerly (295º) from its current westward heading (270º) taking it well north of Haiti. Earlier this week the NHC had to significantly modify its forecast track for Gustav as it took a southerly route after leaving Haiti, putting Jamaica in its deadly path which they had forecast Gustav to miss just a few days earlier.
In less than two weeks Gustav roared into the southern coat and lingered over the Southwest part of the island. For some unknown reason the major news media have been deflecting the reports away from the situation in Haiti in an attempt to reclaim the headlines during the lead-up to the Republican Convention in Minnesota on Monday. Gustav left dozens dead and billions in dmaage to a country that can ill afford any damage.
The bottom line is what’s bad for Hati is going to be bad for the United States as well and we’ll know that all too well very shortly. And after Gustav, Hanna may pay a visit!
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This was the first wave of Gustav hitting the French Quarter in New Orleans. At the end you can see the speed the storm clouds are coming in and hear the wind picking up
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Would the hurricane be disrupted or would it get worse?
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What country offered the united states oil after hurricane Katrina and why did the united states say no?
is that true? someone in class said that today?
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Footage of Hurricane Gustav at landfall from ground zero in Houma, Louisiana from TornadoVideos.net. Footage includes wind gusts to 100 mph, telephone poles breaking, and major tree damage.
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Hurricane Gustav formed on the 25th August and has raced across the Atlantic and exploded from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane in just 12 hours.
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane categories:
Cat 1: Winds 74-95mph, storm surge 4-5ft
Cat 2: Winds 96-110mph, storm surge 6-8ft
Cat 3: Winds 111-130mph, storm surge 9-12ft
Cat 4: Winds 131-155mph, storm surge 13-18ft
Cat 5: Winds over 155mph, storm surge over 18ft
Gustav claimed 80 lives even before it had reached Cuba, having tracked across Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. The storm struck Cuba’s mainland at Pinar Del Rio with wind speeds of almost 150mph. Although Gustav naturally weakened over the Cuban mainland it is expected to intensify over the Gulf of Mexico as it moves towards the US mainland. Hurricanes feed off the warm ocean and that is why so many storms intensify as they pass over the warm waters of the Gulf.
Currently Gustav’s projected path is across the oil rich Gulf and making landfall somewhere along the Louisiana coast on Monday, sparking a mass evacuation as the memories of Katrina in 2005 are still very fresh. Katrina killed over 1,800 people and the US government were criticised for a slow and disorganised evacuation. They are taking no such chances this time with Mayor Ray Nagin describing Gustav as the ‘storm of the century’.
Parts of New Orleans are protected by a levee that is just 10ft high, so a storm surge that could be over 20ft high would once again devastate the city. An extensive waterway designed to protect New Orleans (the Harvey Canal) has not yet been completed so a surge through Lake Pontchartrain would put at risk large areas of the city once again.
It seems that the residents of New Orleans are taking the Mayors’ words seriously. Hundreds of thousands have already left the city with the roadways jammed and the petrol stations emptied of fuel. There was also reportedly a line of residents a mile long queuing to take buses to shelters further North.
Meanwhile Gustav, as always happens with Hurricanes tracking across the Gulf, has caused the price of oil to rocket. On Thursday the price for a barrel passed the $120 mark, although it did settle below this level as the US government is likely to utilise the ‘Strategic Petroleum Reserve’ should oil production be disrupted by the storm.
But it isn’t just New Orleans that needs to be prepared for Gustav. The path of a hurricane is notoriously difficult to predict and the storm could hit any part of a wide area of the Gulf coast. A hurricane watch is in force along the coast from Texas all the way over to the Alabama-Florida border.
The next couple of days will be crucial in the life of Gustav and the millions in its path. Fortunately there were no reported deaths in Cuba, but many injured, so let’s hope that the US evacuation is successful and that we have learnt the lessons of Katrina before Gustav explodes across the Gulf.
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Swimming was banned at beaches all along the East Coast due to Hurricane Bill. Kelly Wallace reports on the predictions for Bill including 23-foot waves, and millions of dollars in damage.
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