Better to "shelter in place"? Huh?
"In Galveston, city officials ordered mandatory evacuations for part of the island town beginning at 7 a.m. CT (8 a.m. ET) Thursday. The rest of the town will be under a voluntary evacuation order. Only residents will be required to evacuate on the western end of the island.
Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas defended this decision, saying current models call for Galveston to be hit with winds and rain only equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane.
"We do not intend to evacuate Galveston Island," she said. "It's the last thing we want to do. Our job is to protect lives and property, [and] right now we feel that sheltering in place is the best action for our citizens to take" - CNN.com
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Sounds like Dr. Isaac Cline's report before the Galveston Hurricane. This can't be good.... They were scared to death of Rita - Ike - eh...
BB
THE problem with the Mayor and others is they are only looking at the wind and rain. Hate to tell those folks but it was not the wind and rain that hurt Mississippi during Katrina. It was called STORM SURGE.
From Joe Master's Wunder Blog - I don't believe these similarities happen by accident...
BB
"Thus, we compute the Integrated Kinetic Energy (IKE) by squaring the velocity of the wind and summing over all regions of the hurricane with tropical storm force winds or higher. This "Integrated Kinetic Energy" was recently proposed by Dr. Mark Powell of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division as a better measure of the destructive power of a hurricane's storm surge than the usual Category 1-5 Saffir-Simpson scale. For example, Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi as a strong Category 3 hurricane, yet its storm surge was more characteristic of a Category 5 storm. Dr. Powell came up with a new scale to rate potential storm surge damage based on IKE (not to be confused with Hurricane Ike!)"
Speaking of sheltering in place, I saw the damndest thing on the way home from work today. Someone has taken one of the old, round, seagoing lifeboats from a ship, buried it halfway in the ground, and sandbagged around it to keep it from popping out of the ground and/or getting water in it. I'll have to take a pic of it next time I drive by and post it.
Now that I think about it, the thing should make a pretty damn good shelter. I suspect it would survive a tornado and / or hurricane force winds ... maybe even a tree falling on it.
KF
Come to think of it, even if the mother of all floods comes to Picayune, MS, the thing would probably pop out anf float away. I'm thinking this is sheer brilliance!!
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