*is worried*
Aug. 28th, 2005 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordinistaCross your fingers for New Orleans, y'all. Hurricane Katrina doesn't look like she's got much respect for human life or historical structures.
God... we've been watching the storm coverage, and it's just... it's really frightening, you know? It's a Category Five storm. Five. That's as high as the scale goes. Sustained winds have been clocked at 175 miles an hour, with gusts around 225 or 250 mph. Hurricane Andrew, which leveled Miami and Homestead, had gusts of 190 mph. I keep watching and keep hoping it shifts somehow, because I have a bad feeling about this thing hitting a city like New Orleans. A hundred thousand people without either the transportation or money to evacuate -- and I swear to you, we saw one woman on the news who said she was going to ride out the storm. You don't "ride out" a storm like that. You get OUT. A storm like that will fuck you up. For serious.
I found out the reason why this storm is so well-developed, and so deadly -- Tropical Storm 10 stalled in the Atlantic, and Tropical Storm 12 caught up with it. They blended together to create a hurricane. Something else particularly unique about this storm is that it has concentric eye walls -- which comes from the two smaller storms blending into one. (In a totally random, and not entirely appropriate train of thought, I remembered this post by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dqbunny -- see "Hurricane Naraku.")
So, whatever it is you do -- pray, light a candle, cross your fingers -- please do it. Those folks are going to need all the help they can get.
God... we've been watching the storm coverage, and it's just... it's really frightening, you know? It's a Category Five storm. Five. That's as high as the scale goes. Sustained winds have been clocked at 175 miles an hour, with gusts around 225 or 250 mph. Hurricane Andrew, which leveled Miami and Homestead, had gusts of 190 mph. I keep watching and keep hoping it shifts somehow, because I have a bad feeling about this thing hitting a city like New Orleans. A hundred thousand people without either the transportation or money to evacuate -- and I swear to you, we saw one woman on the news who said she was going to ride out the storm. You don't "ride out" a storm like that. You get OUT. A storm like that will fuck you up. For serious.
I found out the reason why this storm is so well-developed, and so deadly -- Tropical Storm 10 stalled in the Atlantic, and Tropical Storm 12 caught up with it. They blended together to create a hurricane. Something else particularly unique about this storm is that it has concentric eye walls -- which comes from the two smaller storms blending into one. (In a totally random, and not entirely appropriate train of thought, I remembered this post by
dqbunny -- see "Hurricane Naraku.")So, whatever it is you do -- pray, light a candle, cross your fingers -- please do it. Those folks are going to need all the help they can get.
