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I live near the Alabama gulf coast and it looks like we dodged the bullet.
And I hope poor ol' NOLA doesn't get hammered again. Got a lot of friends and in-laws in the area.
But this will be the BIG story, probably through the week-end.
Not the repug convention.
I think God hates repugs.
Danmel
(4,892 posts)There is no upside to.this
trof
(54,255 posts)One of my favorite people. Just talked to her.
She'll make a decision about leaving later this evening.
If she goes, she'll come here.
She is inside the levees and think she'll be OK at this point.
Good luck to your daughter.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)says the weather blog.
Dunno how I feel about this, but since I don't live there....
Glad we dodged some of the bullet:
as for Alabama:
"The nightmare scenario of a long-duration landfall I wrote about last night continues. The forecast consensus is that the storm will slow to a crawl near southeastern Louisiana keeping southeast to east winds into the corner between Louisiana and Mississippi, and southerly winds against southern Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle, for an EXTENDED period of time.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/bnorcross/show.html?entrynum=6
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)meow2u3
(24,745 posts)Drought relief, especially when (and if) his remnants hit the Plains states and/or the Midwest.
trof
(54,255 posts)Many barges stranded because of low water.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)People can make up their own minds.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)it is bringing rain... I know bucketful's is not exactly the best way to get it with parched land... but it is bringing rain.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)it may soak up the rain before too much runs of. Hope so, anyway... they need it.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)like pouring water on concrete.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/DN/20120712/NEWS21/307120053
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)but is has fucked with the repiglicans for sure.
Courtesy Flush
(4,558 posts)The worst weather is always east of the eye. If the eye hits New Orleans, then Alabama will get the worst of it. (Keeping in mind that this is not a major storm).
I'm in New Iberia, Louisiana. I could have sat on my front porch through Katrina, but a few weeks later, Rita hit to the west of us, about the same distance away, and we had to evacuate. Clean side/ dirty side.
trof
(54,255 posts)180 miles from NOLA.
MS coast will get the worst, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pass Christian.
We'll get 4-6" of rain, maybe 40-50 mph winds.
Last time I checked this is not even a hurricane, although the TV media are trying their best hype it into one.
You're talking to an old aviator here.
I can read radar, isobars (pressure gradients), wind patterns.
New?
Hardly.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)I get it.