NO good posts for a few days.

[hecksf]

Ok lets don't get any really good posts going for a while.
I don't want JD, WNROSCOE, or any of the other louisiana boys getting stuck behind the computer trying to explain to us something technical when they should be getting out of town.
You guys be carefull.

Jackie it looks like you might get some rain but miss the wild winds.

Ted

 

[jackie schmidt]

Ted

Rain is what really hurts us. Even a storm as intense as this one dissipates enough by the time it gets inland that we might see 85-90 mph winds. Of course, Galveston and Kemah will get hammered.

But, the rain can be bad. As long as it keeps moving fast, and we only get about 10 inches, it won't hurt much. But, if it stalls, and drifts to the west a little, we could get more than the system will hold, and it will get nasty really quick.

The absolute worse senario is for a storm to make landfall on a Lunar High Tide, and push about a 15 ft storm surge up the ship channel. That is what is likely to happen to New Orleans, as it is on the 'dirty side".

Of course, if it keeps that NW track after land fall, and goes up into East Tx, all of that rain will then come down the River systems, we could be in for a bad time as well. Since Houston is now one big concrete slab, the watwer just spreads out and stays.

Most of these dip sh-t news reporters know very little about these things. All they look at is wind speed, and where the "eye" makes landfall. For us that have been through countless of them, we know the important thing is what side of the storm tou are on, and what it does after it hits land........jackie