MAP: LSU scientists have projected Louisiana flooding

[Bluebear]

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/content/katrina_projected_flooding082805.pdf

If you have Adobe on your computer, click the link. Truly frightening.

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National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield said Saturday afternoon that Hurricane Katrina will be at least a Category 4, with winds of 145 mph when it approaches the New Orleans area, and that it could be a Category 5, with winds of 155 mph or higher.

Meanwhile, computer model runs conducted by a team of Louisiana State University scientists indicate that even if Katrina had winds of only 115 mph, levees protecting Kenner, Metairie and New Orleans on the east bank will be overtopped by a 10- to 12-foot storm surge, topped by waves at least half that high, in some locations along Lake Pontchartrain.

"The guidance we get and common sense and experience suggests this storm is not done strengthening," Mayfield said in a telephone call from Miami-Dade County, which was hit by a Category 1 Katrina earlier in the week.

"This is really scary," he said. "This is not a test, as your governor said earlier today. This is the real thing."

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html

[fishnfla]

1. The levees wont handle 115, let alone 145

turn away is the only hope now

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

2. Very scary.

I would hope that people would heed the evacuation warnings, and get out. I went through two hurricanes as a kid, and wouldn't do it again. The storm surge can be very deadly in a situation like this...potential Cat 4, hitting in an area partly below sea level.