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	Sun, Aug. 28th, 2005 12:59 pm

Pray for Louisiana.

Katrina is currently the 4th most powerful hurricane in recorded history, with an internal pressure of 902 millibars and maximum sustained winds of 175 mph, plus a storm surge of 28 feet. According to an NWS release posted by

swisscelt:

* Most of the strike zone will be uninhabitable for weeks.
* 1/2 of well-constructed homes will fail structurally. All gabled roofs will fail--they are very popular in New Orleans.
* Most industrial buildings will fail.
* All wood-framed apartment buildings will be destroyed. Concrete block low rise apartments will sustain major damage.
* High rise office and apartment buildings will sway dangerously, some to the point of collapse. All windows will blow out.
* Airborne debris will be widespread. Anyone caught in its path will be killed. Livestock exposed to the winds will be killed.
* Power and water outages will last for weeks. "Water shortages will make human suffering incredible by modern standards."
* Nearly all native trees will be snapped or uprooted. Most crops will be destroyed.
* Hurricane-force winds will venture well inland into areas not prepared to handle such sustained winds.

This is worse than if a nuclear bomb hit New Orleans. Pray for the safety of all concerned.

Tags: hurricane katrina, hurricanes

playgirl

Playgirl's Mechanical World

	Sun, Aug. 28th, 2005 08:05 pm (UTC)

I had no idea it was going to be so bad.
I will be praying for their safety!

waterstrider

Alex the Ripper

	Sun, Aug. 28th, 2005 08:26 pm (UTC)

I posted a prayer request on christianity. And I'm suddenly intrigued by folk piety surrounding weather.

kerrizor

Kerri Natashya Elizabeth Anne

	Sun, Aug. 28th, 2005 10:41 pm (UTC)

How is this worse than a nuclear bomb?

zaimoni

Zaimoni

	Sun, Aug. 28th, 2005 11:39 pm (UTC)

It levels far more area. Fifty-five mile radius (from landfall) of total razing rather than twenty-five mile radius. The eyewall itself will leave nothing that isn't a tornado shelter standing (it has the same wind speed as an F3).

Not to mention the raw energy Katrina burns to just maintain herself is equivalent to a small nuclear weapon each second.

And New Orleans...a direct hit will make it history. I don't see how anyone rational would wait six months for the water to be pumped out.

kerrizor

Kerri Natashya Elizabeth Anne

	Sun, Aug. 28th, 2005 11:41 pm (UTC)

devestated swampland versus 500,000 dead in seconds, plus millions more from fallout

I don't see the comparison

zaimoni

Zaimoni

	Mon, Aug. 29th, 2005 12:03 am (UTC)

The casualties from a nuclear bomb would be pretty low if you had 36 hours to evacuate the target area. Likewise, the casualties from not evacuating would have been in the tens of millions for second landfall. But the terrain cannot evacuate, so it's a fair comparison.

As it is, New Orleans should have 600,000 or so remaining because they called evacuations according to procedure rather than necessity. On a direct hit, that's about 600,000 dead. Add in Biloxi, and you're pushing a million dead just from two cities...and that would have taken two nuclear bombs.

There is no good way to die. A hurricane with improper shelter is just slower.

kerrizor

Kerri Natashya Elizabeth Anne

	Mon, Aug. 29th, 2005 01:17 am (UTC)

Hmm.. wikipedia lists the population of the NOLA region as 1,337,726.

maddragonqueen

Aaren

	Mon, Aug. 29th, 2005 05:35 am (UTC)

The population in New Orleans alone is somewhere near the 5 million area. Thankfully, most of those people have been evacuated, but the number of people still in the city is extremely high.

kerrizor

Kerri Natashya Elizabeth Anne

	Mon, Aug. 29th, 2005 05:41 am (UTC)

The 2000 census put New Orleans's population at 484,674 and the New Orleans metropolitan area's population at 1,337,726. The city's name is often abbreviated NOLA.

Even if it /is/ 5 million, that's a far cry from the 10 million fatalities predicted by some people.

Look, hurricane == huge big nasty bad. Just.. lets have perspective and not leap out to exagerations

maddragonqueen

Aaren

	Mon, Aug. 29th, 2005 05:50 am (UTC)

Sorry, meant Louisiana state. It's late, I'm tired.

soeursansmerci
WWbhD?

	Mon, Aug. 29th, 2005 12:19 am (UTC)

We're praying like mad.