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This was the Global Warming Storm called "Hurricane Katrina" after it made landfall.

Caption :: Hurricane Katrina was sprawled across all or part of 16 states at 2:15 p.m. CDT on August 29, 2005, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA�s satellite captured this image.

After nearly eight hours over land, Katrina was still a Category 1 storm, with winds of 150 kilometers per hour (95 miles per hour) and stronger gusts. In this image, Katrina measures about 1,260 kilometers (780 miles) from east to west and about the same distance from north to south across its center.

While most states under its clouds have only experienced rain so far, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida have all been pummeled by furious winds, heavy rain, and a powerful storm surge.

Katrina was a strong Category 4 storm when its eye moved ashore earlier in the day.

Conclusion

The most powerful storm ever to reach the Gulf Coast of North America arrived Monday, August 29, 2005. Previous to that in recorded time every storm respected the limits of the levees in New Orleans. The Levee system was never meant to stand forces of Global Warming. The ONLY way to insure human safety was to be prepared for strong and devastating winds and rain in preparedness.

Preparing a city such as New Orleans for a catastrophic event is intricate in it's planning but certainly not so complicated that it could never be achieved.

New Orleans in many respects was at the heart of the oil industry with it's ports and the fact the only oil fields off shore USA were concentrated in this area. For that reason alone it is very surprising the oil industry left so much to chance. It is astounding the national security of the USA was left hanging by a thread. Or was it?

In order to prepare for catastrophe one has to see it happening. This administration has placed as it's first priority economic exploitation of every oil and gas resource available in the mainland USA, Alaska as well as any available offshore locations. This administration has deregulated the oil industry to the point where anything goes. They literally can drill in any location regardless of environmental demise and currently, post Katrina, the product being sold is not only extremely expensive but is now laced with every additive the industry wants to throw in it for extenders. The Air Quality in the USA will deteriorate causing cancers and death in years to come for the sake of profits to companies like Cheney's Halliburton.

In order to prepare for a catastrophic event there has to be priorities. Those priorities can take whatever form one cares to including industry and economy at the top of the list. Currently, in New Orleans there is nothing left from the devastation six days out due to negligence of emergency planning and priorities. People were lucky to get away with their lives.

Ironically, or maybe not so, the poorest states of this nation live along an oil and gas coastline. New Orleans has to be one of the poorest cities in this nation. Now with it's infrastructure destroyed by wind, water and fire there is little hope the impoverished status of it's people will every change.

Priorities:

Without an economy a city cannot exist. Without a work force an economy cannot exist. Without a heart and soul a work force could not exist.

This is about what it takes to protect the people of catastrophe. People need economies. There is absolutely nothing disposable in this situation. Prevention is worth a million times more than a 'clean up' if one is possible. Currently, I don't think a 'clean up' is possible for New Orleans. The devastation is absolute and the land is valueless as well as it's potential to return to function. As the Army Corp of Engineers are at work to replace the broken levees, who indeed will be returning to the city that currently is under water? What industry will come back to New Orleans and rebuild? Every structure within a reasonable radius of that city has been damaged to where it has to be demolished. There is virtually nothing to come back to. What is the goal of replacing the levees? Where is the up front commitment of the industry that existed there before to return?

The $10.5 billion the Senate approved for efforts to provide relief to the victim/survivors of the most hideously executed emergency management does not even begin to address what FEMA must provide in financial relief to home owners and in no way addresses the trillions of dollars needed to restore New Orleans.

Yet to be addressed is the issue what will returning New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to function achieve if first the issue of Global Warming and Climate Change remains a source of ignorance by the legislators that have few resources to understand it and prioritize it's prominence as not only the Number One National Priority but the Number One Priority of all nations of Earth.

Preparedness. It is a lot more than sounding an alarm to retreat from an out of control climate system.

It's Saturday Night. 

HELP ! by the Beetles

Help, I need somebody,
Help, not just anybody,
Help, you know I need someone, help.

When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody’s help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I’m not so self assured,
Now I find I’ve changed my mind and opened up the doors.

Help me if you can, I’m feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won’t you please, please help me.

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways,
My independence seems to vanish in the haze.
But every now and then I feel so insecure,
I know that I just need you like I’ve never done before.

Help me if you can, I’m feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won’t you please, please help me.

When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody’s help in any way.
But now these daya are gone, I’m not so self assured,
Now I find I’ve changed my mind and opened up the doors.

Help me if you can, I’m feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won’t you please, please help me, help me, help me, oh

Get out of the way of these storms. They are atypical. They are killers even at Cat One.

Everyone needs to step up their efforts to remove every living person out of the Gulf Coast. Residents need to understand they may be going back to their homes prematurely. The ONLY reason to go back into the effected area is to take pictures and start insurance claims, recover and remove any living pets or livestock.

This season is not over.

UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite 12 hour loop - click here

September 3, 2005. UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite. If that isn't a hurricane in the middle of the Atlantic don't ask me what is. Everyone thinks it's going directly north but it hasn't budged that much. It hs gone from 19 degrees latitude to 22.4 over the last 48 hours. It's pressure is dropping from 1008 to 1001.

UNISYS Infrared Satellite 12 hour loop - click here

September 3, 2005. There is a lot of turbulent air around the Gulf of Mexico. There are two ciruclation systems in the Atlantic no one is talking about. One is near Florida and the larger is in the middle of the Atlantic. Noted there is a storm front that moved through Minnesota which is currently in Wisconsin.

September 2, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. A levee. The water is supposed to be in the channel. 

September 2, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. 

September 2, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

August 2, 2004. New Orleans, Louisiana. The relief supplies begin to arrive. 

Hurricane Katrina makes landfall

August 30, 2005

Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore early yesterday and charged toward this below-sea-level city with 233-kilometers per hour winds and the threat of a catastrophic storm surge.

Katrina edged slightly to the east shortly before making landfall near Grand Isle, providing some hope that the worst of the storm's wrath might not be directed at the vulnerable city.

Martin Nelson, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center, said the northern part of the eyewall came ashore at Grand Isle, about 97 kilometers south of New Orleans, at about 5 a.m. (local time). It was moving northward at 24 kilometers per hour.

Katrina's fury was soon felt at the Louisiana Superdome, normally home of professional football's Saints, which became the shelter of last resort Sunday for about 9,000 of the area's poor, homeless and frail.

Electrical power at the Superdome failed at 5:02 a.m., triggering groans from the crowd. Emergency generators kicked in, but the backup power runs only reduced lighting and is not strong enough to run the air conditioning.

Chenel Lagarde, spokesman for Entergy Corp., the main energy power company in the region, said that 370,000 customers in southeast Louisiana were estimated to be without power. Even though the storm was hours away from New Orleans, Karina's advance winds were already blowing slate tiles off the old roofs of the French Quarter.

The wind was blowing the rain sideways, and debris was carried up more than 31 meters. Power was on and off in sections of the city, and emergency vehicles patrolled the main streets, their blue and red lights flashing.

"I'd rather watch this than watch a movie," said Steven Grades, 22, one of the Superdome evacuees as he looked out through the windows at the gathering storm.

Katrina, which weakened slightly overnight to a strong Category 4 storm, turned slightly eastward before hitting land, which would put the western eyewall - the weaker side of the strongest winds - over New Orleans.

"It's not as bad as the eastern side. It'll be plenty bad enough," said Eric Blake of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Mayor Ray Nagin said he believed 80 percent of the city's 480,000 residents had heeded an unprecedented mandatory evacuation as Katrina threatened to become the most powerful storm ever to slam the city.

"It's capable of causing catastrophic damage," said National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield. "Even well-built structures will have tremendous damage... What we're really worried about is the loss of lives."

The Track of Global Warming Eddy "Katrina"

ADV LAT LON TIME WIND PR STAT

1 23.20 -75.50 08/23/21Z 30 1007 TROPICAL DEPRESSION

3A 24.40 -76.60 08/24/12Z 30 1006 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
4 24.70 -76.70 08/24/15Z 35 1006 TROPICAL STORM

8B 26.20 -79.60 08/25/19Z 60 990 TROPICAL STORM
9 26.10 -79.90 08/25/21Z 65 985 HURRICANE-1

10 25.50 -80.70 08/26/03Z 65 984 HURRICANE-1
10A 25.40 -81.10 08/26/05Z 60 990 TROPICAL STORM

10B 25.30 -81.30 08/26/07Z 60 990 TROPICAL STORM
11 25.30 -81.50 08/26/09Z 65 987 HURRICANE-1

12 25.10 -82.20 08/26/15Z 70 981 HURRICANE-1
13 25.10 -82.20 08/26/15Z 85 971 HURRICANE-2

15A 24.40 -84.00 08/27/06Z 95 963 HURRICANE-2
16 24.40 -84.40 08/27/09Z 100 945 HURRICANE-3


19 25.00 -86.20 08/28/03Z 100 939 HURRICANE-3
20 25.10 -86.80 08/28/06Z 125 935 HURRICANE-4

21 25.40 -87.40 08/28/09Z 125 935 HURRICANE-4
22 25.70 -87.70 08/28/12Z 140 908 HURRICANE-5

25A 27.90 -89.50 08/29/03Z 140 908 HURRICANE-5
25B 28.20 -89.60 08/29/07Z 135 910 HURRICANE-4

LANDFALL at 125 knots or 144.78 miles per hour.

27 30.20 -89.60 08/29/15Z 110 927 HURRICANE-3

27A 30.80 -89.60 08/29/15Z 90 940 HURRICANE-2

27B 31.40 -89.60 08/29/19Z 80 955 HURRICANE-1

28A 32.90 -88.90 08/30/00Z 55 965 TROPICAL STORM

31 36.30 -87.50 08/30/15Z 30 985 TROPICAL DEPRESSION

34 41.10 -81.60 08/31/09Z 15 996 TROPICAL DEPRESSION