The official Hurricane Gustav Thread

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Led Zeppelin
Godspeed to everyone in Louisiana.

Yeah, it looks like there's little chance of it really changing course. Cocodrie is going to get wiped out. I think that my area will be spared most of the really bad stuff. I will probably lose power though.

 

[KaOTiK]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: RedCOMET
Well, I went shopping for some extra supplies in Opelousas, LA where i'm crashing at the GF's place. Opelousas is about 20 north of Lafayette, on I-49. Walgreens was closed up here, and CVS was getting close to closing. SO we stocked up on more water, 2 more bottles of wine, some soda, chocalate bars ( for the wine of course). I was also able to go to the ATM and get about $400 in cash and Daquari's


In other news, in running those errands, contra flow sectin of I-49 there was a low volume of vehicles... but his was near exit 18. It was mooving quite steadily, but there were not alot of vehicles heading north. I guess its worst in other part of LA.

Heh, I don't drink, but I told my friend that if we get stranded here for days, I'm going to get hammered. 😛

I just got done taking pictures of all of my belongings and my insurance policies. I'm doing laundry and filling up old Gatorade bottles as "cold sinks" for the freezer/fridge. I also cleaned up the yard.

Do you guys think I should go get all of the garden stones like these and put them up?

Stones will be fine since they have weight and are flat on the ground pretty much. But anything sticking up a bit from the ground or light weight put away.

I live in FL and been through quite a few hurricanes, I didn't read any of your previous posts so forgive me if I say stuff you already did. But here are some suggestions.

Hopefully you have enough food, stuff that doesn't need to be cooked. If you want to do some cooking, if you have a grill make sure it is secured somewhere and have plenty of charcoal/propane for it.

Clean out your tub really well, scrub it down. Then Before the hurricane is going to hit fill the tub up with water. Serves two purposes, one if you don't have enough containers for drinking water and two, you need to fill your toilet up some to flush.

Hopefully you have/are boarding up the windows, if not at least do it for one room to offer a bit more protection. If you have UPS for your PC's make sure they are fully charged and unplug and turn them off. They are great for when you need some power for something.

Batteries and candles are your friends.

For bottles of water, put them in the freezer, if you have a lot freeze them and use a cooler that you have for the beach or whatever else and put them in there with all the ice that will fit inside of it. Not having power after all that rain and the sun beating down having something cold for a couple of days afterwards is worth its weight in gold in those situations.

Go to the atm and with draw however much cash you want. Little to no power and crap down all over cash is all people will use.

Have stuff ready for after the storm, tarps, duct tape, garbage bags, etc to clean up and try and patch up things the best you can. Even if you don't think you'll need it you probably will or at the very least you can help your neighbor out.

Neighbors, even if you don't get along with them now, there is nothing like a natural disaster that brings people together that are in the thick of it. Help each other and share with one another. If your going to grill some dinner, ask them if they would like to use the grill so you guys don't use as much fuel as you would if you did it seperately. Gotta conserve your supplies. Also helps having someone else help you fix up problems your having at your place and you help them.

A lot of this seems like very common knowledge but you would be surprised how often people just don't think of it cause they freak out before the storm.

Oh yeah, one more thing, things of value besides papers/pictures. Keep them off the floor and clear out a secure spot in a closet or somewhere for them and cover them with plastic just incase. My friend saved his computers and various things doing this. Half his roof was torn off in a hurricane and since his stuff was like 2 feet of the ground and covered in plasticed and sealed closed with duct tape in a closet all his stuff was fine.

 

[Eli]

Wow.. I had no idea Gustav had its sights set on New Orleans.

:shocked:

If this hits them.. Two in 3 years? I'm sorry, but it's time to pack up shop and find a better, higher place to live. 😛

 

[Eli]

Isn't it moving kinda fast? = less overall damage and flooding?

It doesn't look very well organized? Is it going through an eyewall regen cycle?

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: waggy
A few packs of tourists, identifiable by their slightly off-kilter walk and gigantic hot pink test tubes of booze, ambled down St. Louis Street, peeking into bars and asking, "You still open?"

I find that hilarious that tourists still try to go there.

There's precedent: during Camille (1969?) there were "hurricane parties" along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It turned out to be a major Darwin moment, as few of the celebrants survived the storm.

:laugh:

That's such a 1960s thing to do...

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Eli
Isn't it moving kinda fast? = less overall damage and flooding?

It doesn't look very well organized? Is it going through an eyewall regen cycle?

Dry air is getting sucked into it. The NE quadrant, which is usually the very worst part, is actually pretty weak. They are predicting 28" of rain in New Orleans and 29" in Venice (right on the very tip of Louisiana that sticks out into the Gulf). Heh, as I'm typing this, the weather guy is saying "Don't say that Bob said there would be 28" of rain!!! I'm saying the *computer* predicted this."

That guy cracks me up.

As for the parties, we still have that 60s feel down here sometimes. 😛

 

[ICRS]

Looks like this thing is dying fast. The evacuations might have been premature. O well.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: ICRS
Looks like this thing is dying fast. The evacuations might have been premature. O well.

That's almost certainly incorrect.

 

[Chaotic42]

Feeder Band 18:00 08/31

It got really shitty really quickly outside.

 

[sciwizam]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: ICRS
Looks like this thing is dying fast. The evacuations might have been premature. O well.

That's almost certainly incorrect.

Yeah, I've reading the discussion on http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/, where there is a huge thread, by huge I mean more than 3000posts, where pro-mets are tracking this min by min. Learned a lot of info actually.

They are seeing that the eye might be reforming right now(as of data from 5mins ago), as for most of today the eye was quite disorganized.

 

[Chaotic42]

Wow. I almost got nailed by a pine cone taking this. Wow. The winds were crazy.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Wow. I almost got nailed by a pine cone taking this. Wow. The winds were crazy.

awesome picture dude thanks

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Wow. I almost got nailed by a pine cone taking this. Wow. The winds were crazy.

awesome picture dude thanks

No problem. I love weather and I love photography. It's the least I could do! Unforutnately it's so freaking dark and I don't really have the lenses for this.

Leading edge of that feeder band.

The first pic is in my back yard, the second one is in my front yard.

 

[Chronoshock]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Wow. I almost got nailed by a pine tree taking this. Wow. The winds were deadly.

Fixed for 24 hours from now?
Stay safe Chaotic, nice pics :thumbsup:

 

[dudeman007]

Be safe all you people in hurricane land 🙂

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Chronoshock

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Wow. I almost got nailed by a pine tree taking this. Wow. The winds were deadly.

Fixed for 24 hours from now?
Stay safe Chaotic, nice pics :thumbsup:

You never know!

Thanks for the well-wishes everyone. I'll post interesting pics for as long as I can. Right now it's just very overcast and it's getting dark.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Eli
Isn't it moving kinda fast? = less overall damage and flooding?

It doesn't look very well organized? Is it going through an eyewall regen cycle?

Dry air is getting sucked into it.

The NE quadrant, which is usually the very worst part, is actually pretty weak.

What? Who said that?

Gustav 8-31-08 7pm.jpg

It's tightening up, just becoming a smaller still very powerful compact storm.

Very common to get compact when forward speed picks up like it has.

It's moving at nearly 20 mph.

Also don't forget to add that 20 mph to the overall wind speed.

So if they are say it's 115mph now it's 135 mph effective force.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Eli
Isn't it moving kinda fast? = less overall damage and flooding?

It doesn't look very well organized? Is it going through an eyewall regen cycle?

Dry air is getting sucked into it.

The NE quadrant, which is usually the very worst part, is actually pretty weak.

What? Who said that?

Fox 8

Pic

 

[Chryso]

I just saw that Jim Cantore is in Houma. I guess that is better than here in BR.

 

[S Freud]

Looking at the time stamps of your posts I am correct in think that in less then 15 minutes the sky around you when from this...

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Feeder Band 18:00 08/31

It got really shitty really quickly outside.

To this...

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Wow. I almost got nailed by a pine cone taking this. Wow. The winds were crazy.

Wow.:Q

I've never been through a hurricane or anything worse then a bad rainstorm so I am amazed. I also don't have TV so I haven't been able to follow the coverage on this.

Stay safe everyone.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Eli
Isn't it moving kinda fast? = less overall damage and flooding?

It doesn't look very well organized? Is it going through an eyewall regen cycle?

Dry air is getting sucked into it.

The NE quadrant, which is usually the very worst part, is actually pretty weak.

What? Who said that?

Gustav 8-31-08 7pm.jpg

It's tightening up, just becoming a smaller still very powerful compact storm.

Very common to get compact when forward speed picks up like it has.

It's moving at nearly 20 mph.

Also don't forget to add that 20 mph to the overall wind speed.

So if they are say it's 115mph now it's 135 mph effective force.

where did you hear that? i've lived on the coast my entire life and have never heard that.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Eli
Isn't it moving kinda fast? = less overall damage and flooding?
It doesn't look very well organized? Is it going through an eyewall regen cycle?

Dry air is getting sucked into it.
The NE quadrant, which is usually the very worst part, is actually pretty weak.

What? Who said that?
Gustav 8-31-08 7pm.jpg
It's tightening up, just becoming a smaller still very powerful compact storm.
Very common to get compact when forward speed picks up like it has.
It's moving at nearly 20 mph.
Also don't forget to add that 20 mph to the overall wind speed.
So if they are say it's 115mph now it's 135 mph effective force.

where did you hear that? i've lived on the coast my entire life and have never heard that.

JohnCU nailed it; they are announcing Maximum Sustained Wind Speeds

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: S Freud
Looking at the time stamps of your posts I am correct in think that in less then 15 minutes the sky around you when from this...

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Feeder Band 18:00 08/31
It got really shitty really quickly outside.

To this...

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Wow. I almost got nailed by a pine cone taking this. Wow. The winds were crazy.

Wow.:Q

I've never been through a hurricane or anything worse then a bad rainstorm so I am amazed. I also don't have TV so I haven't been able to follow the coverage on this.

Stay safe everyone.

You are correct, sir! It snuck up on us. It's already past New Orleans. I guess that there aren't going to be any pics until tomorrow morning unless something bad goes down. It's dark out.

As for the wind thing, I've never heard that either (that doesn't mean it's not true), but I have seen and been told that the wind forecasts are at 35m.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Eli
Isn't it moving kinda fast? = less overall damage and flooding?

It doesn't look very well organized? Is it going through an eyewall regen cycle?

Dry air is getting sucked into it.

The NE quadrant, which is usually the very worst part, is actually pretty weak.

What? Who said that?

Gustav 8-31-08 7pm.jpg

It's tightening up, just becoming a smaller still very powerful compact storm.

Very common to get compact when forward speed picks up like it has.

It's moving at nearly 20 mph.

Also don't forget to add that 20 mph to the overall wind speed.

So if they are say it's 115mph now it's 135 mph effective force.

where did you hear that? i've lived on the coast my entire life and have never heard that.

Hurricane Basics


The winds around the hurricane's eye are moving in a counterclockwise fashion.

At Point A, the hurricane winds are nearly in line with the steering wind, adding to the strength of the winds.

For example, if the steering currents are 30 mph and the average hurricane winds are 100 mph, the wind speed would be 130 mph at Point A.

On the other hand, the winds at Point B are moving opposite those of the steering wind and therefore slow to 70 mph (100 - 30 mph).

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Eli
Isn't it moving kinda fast? = less overall damage and flooding?

It doesn't look very well organized? Is it going through an eyewall regen cycle?

Dry air is getting sucked into it.

The NE quadrant, which is usually the very worst part, is actually pretty weak.

What? Who said that?

Gustav 8-31-08 7pm.jpg

It's tightening up, just becoming a smaller still very powerful compact storm.

Very common to get compact when forward speed picks up like it has.

It's moving at nearly 20 mph.

Also don't forget to add that 20 mph to the overall wind speed.

So if they are say it's 115mph now it's 135 mph effective force.

where did you hear that? i've lived on the coast my entire life and have never heard that.

Hurricane Basics


The winds around the hurricane's eye are moving in a counterclockwise fashion.

At Point A, the hurricane winds are nearly in line with the steering wind, adding to the strength of the winds.

For example, if the steering currents are 30 mph and the average hurricane winds are 100 mph, the wind speed would be 130 mph at Point A.

On the other hand, the winds at Point B are moving opposite those of the steering wind and therefore slow to 70 mph (100 - 30 mph).

but like CallMeJoe stated, they already take this into account when they release the wind speed information every 3 hours.