I hope Ivan's not gonna kick to much of New Orleans... they will feel him though!
and now Jeanne is gathering force ...
bugger of a year for hurricanes
Jeanne? he says pricking up his ears!
NEW ORLEANS - More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.
Residents streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic in an agonizingly slow exodus amid dire warnings that Ivan could overwhelm New Orleans with up to 20 feet of filthy, chemical-polluted water. About three-quarters of a million more people along the coast in Florida, Mississippi and Alabama were also told to evacuate.
Forecasters said Ivan, a killer blamed for at least 68 deaths in the Caribbean, could reach 160 mph and strengthen to Category 5, the highest level, by the time it blows ashore as early as Thursday somewhere along the Gulf Coast.
It's so confusing on this Category 5 thing - is it or is it becoming? guess it doesn't matter with the potiential damage that's going to happen.
becoming-depending on the high pressure it meets
"but, but" indeed pan. I just looked into my crystal ball for Oct 27th, 2004:
Miami Herald headline: Hurricane Zyggy Coming Our Way
At least it'll be the last one
Til Alpha Annie gets spinning and twirling.
Toldja pan, it's a bugger of a year for hurricanes.
I was on the phone with some people down on the Texas Gulf Coast over the last couple of days. One of them was quite happy when I gave him an assignment that would send him a coupla hours inland.
I guess it gives us something to talk about. I knew one of these years our luck would run out.
Got any experience appraising big rigs, pan? Maybe I can send you somewhere as well (should it be north, south, inland?)
I can run but I can't hide.
Okay, so this is a song for Jeanne:
From the 1969 film "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie" starring Oscar-winner
Maggie Smith
Written by Rod McKuen
Peak chart position # 2 in 1969
Jean, Jean, roses are red
All the leaves have gone green
And the clouds are so low
You can touch them, and so
Come out to the meadow, Jean
Jean, Jean, you're young and alive
Come out of your half-dreamed dream
And run, if you will, to the top of the hill
Open your arms, bonnie Jean
Till the sheep in the valley come home my way
Till the stars fall around me and find me alone
When the sun comes a-singin' I'll still be waitin'
For Jean, Jean, roses are red
And all of the leaves have gone green
While the hills are ablaze with the moon's yellow haze
Come into my arms, bonnie Jean
(Jean, Jean)
Jean, you're young and alive!!
Come out of your half-dreamed dream
And run, if you will to the top of the hill
Come into my arms, bonnie Jean
Bonnie, indeed!
Thank goodness we sold our condo! It's about 60 miles outside of New Orleans, on the gulf coast. They don't allow dogs, so much as we love the place, we gave it up. What a lucky break for us!
Ironically, we've been looking in S.W. Florida, as well as along the east coast, up around Jacksonville, for another place to spend our winters when we retire in a few years, but we were waiting 'til we go down in February/March to buy.
I think we'll set our sights on the desert.
Reading this thread, I'm happy that all the Florida folks came out okay.
It looks like Jeanne will become a category I hurricane, but might stay in the Atlantic. Let's all hope that she shifts eastward, and away from the continental US.
