Hurricane Katrina STEERED for New Orleans? 3000 Louisiana Nat. Guard off in Iraq bogus war
author: impeach the vacationing Bush
OK, I'll say it. I know you are thinking it like I am.
HAARP anyone? --- Bankrupt Venezuela? --- convenient federal FEMA militarization while Louisiana National Guard in Iraq?
Katrina has gone from Cat 1 to Cat 5 in days. It was even briefly downgraded lower than Cat 1 to a tropical storm as it left South Florida! Meterologists admit mystification--or feign mystification--at it. Now, devastation from Katrina is to be around 500x worse than the damage delivered to South Florida. A Category 5 hurricane does not cause five times as much damage as a Category 1. It causes 500 to 1,000 times the damage, hurricane scientists say, because the power of a storm increases exponentially as wind speeds grow.
In 1976 there was a U.N. Treaty, which Nations signed, promising not to affect each other using weather warfare. So...in other words, the technology was available then...to at least some degree.
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summaries of several articles:
1.4m ordered to flee as Hurricane Katrina roars towards New Orleans
The levees intended to protect the city vary in height, from as low as 10
feet above sea level to about 14 feet, he said. They too are vulnerable,
because they are made of earth [and will erode], he said. Katrina could be
especially devastating if it strikes New Orleans because the city sits
below sea level and is dependent on levees and pumps to keep the water
out. A direct hit could submerge the city [for weeks]. Some 25 feet of
standing water is expected in many parts of the city --almost twice the
height of the average home -- and computer models suggest that more than
80 percent of buildings would be badly damaged or destroyed, he said.
Forecasters predicted the storm surge could reach 28 feet; the highest
levees around New Orleans are 18 feet high. About 70 percent of New
Orleans is below sea level, and is protected from the Mississippi River by
a series of levees. Mayor has said the levee will not hold. 20 feet of
water are possible. [Plus, Katrina will strike at high tide, approx. 8
a.m. Monday morning as well. Additoinally, Katrina hit the Gulf's 'loop
current:"
In the Gulf of Mexico, all projections had been that the storm would
intensify as it drew energy from the warm waters there, and chance events
favored growth. It churned directly over an oceanic feature that is the
nemesis of gulf state disaster planners: the "loop current," a great, deep
whorl of tropics-hot seawater that pulses in between the Yucatn and Cuba
each year and then stays south of Louisiana into late summer. Often, even
in the Gulf of Mexico, storms weaken as they suck up cool water that lies
stratified beneath the warm surface. But in the loop, even the depths are
hot.
Katrina had a central pressure -- a measure of a storm's intensity -- of
902 millibars, which would make it one of the four strongest storms on
record. The Labor Day hurricane of 1935 that hit the Florida Keys, killing
some 600 people, was the strongest with a minimum central pressure of 892
millibars on landfall. "The lower the pressure [number], the stronger the
winds..."
Category 5 is the most intense on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Only three
Category 5 hurricanes have made landfall in the United States since
records were kept. Those were the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, 1969's
Hurricane Camille [that missed New Orleans and still killed 250+ people]
and Hurricane Andrew, which devastated the Miami area in 1992. Andrew
remains the costliest U.S. hurricane on record, with $26.5 billion in
losses. [Katrina is #4]
...at least 100,000 people in the city lack the transport to leave.
The huge storm, packing 160 mph winds [now 175 mph], is expected to hit
the northern Gulf Coast in the next 12 hours and make landfall as a
Category 4 or 5 hurricane Monday morning. The National Hurricane Center
reports that conditions are already deteriorating along the central and
northeastern coast. As far east as Mobile, Alabama, 118 miles away from
New Orleans, authorities warned of storm surges approaching 20 feet. A
statement from the National Weather Service in Slidell, near New Orleans,
Louisiana, warned that much of the affected area "will be uninhabitable
for weeks, perhaps longer."
CNN said officials expect the storm surge to cover the grounds of the
Super Dome itself [one of ten "emergency evacuation" sites], and people
will be there for several days.
There are around 25,000 people in the 100,000 seat Superdome stadium. The second level of the Superdome is around 35 feet from the base, so in the storm, it will be fine. It has been built to withstand at 200-215 mph winds. Katrina is around 175 mph. Unfortuantely, many other "evacuation shelters" are unable to withstand even 175 mph.
And much of FEMA money goes toward emergency response instead of emergency preparation. Much smarter pre-preparation strategies--instead of relying on "emergency aftermath strategies" would of course endanger FEMA lobby budgets... FEMA gets their wish, a test of the concentration camps: "In the French Quarter, the water could reach 20 feet, easily submerging the district's iconic cast-iron balconies and bars, the AP reported. Estimates predict that 60 percent to 80 percent of the city's houses will be destroyed by wind. With the flood damage, most of the people who live in and around New Orleans could be homeless, the AP said. "We're talking about in essence having - in the continental United States having a refugee camp of a million people," van Heerden said."  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?
guid=%7B5D65F7A0-960A-43D2-8169-C9121BAA0A31%7D&siteid=google&dist=
extremely sobering to think the area is now being faced with a likely
reality that matches a projection like this:
Ninety percent of the structures in the city are likely to be destroyed by
the combination of water and wind accompanying a Category 5 storm, said
Robert Eichorn, former director of the New Orleans Office of Emergency
Preparedness. The LSU Hurricane Center surveyed numerous large public
buildings in Jefferson Parish in hopes of identifying those that might
withstand such catastrophic winds. They found none.
Floodwaters from the east will carry toxic waste from the "Industrial
Canal" area, nicknamed after the chemical plants there. From the west,
floodwaters would flow through the Norco Destrehan Industrial Complex,
which includes refineries and chemical plants, said van Heerden, who has
studied computer models about the impact of a strong hurricane for four
years. "These chemical plants are going to start flying apart, just as the
other buildings do," he predicted. "So, we have the potential for release
of benzene, hydrochloric acid, chlorine and so on." That could result in
severe air and water pollution, he said. In New Orleans, which lies below
sea level, gas and diesel tanks are all located above ground for the same
reason that bodies are buried above ground. In the event of a flood,
"those tanks will start to float, shear their couplings, and we'll have
the release of these rather volatile compounds," van Heerden added.
Because gasoline floats on water, "we could end up with some pretty severe
and large -- area-wise -- fires." "So, we're looking at a bowl full of
highly contaminated water with contaminated air flowing around and,
literally, very few places for anybody to go where they'll be safe."
Meanwhile, more than 3,000 members of the Louisiana National Guards 256th Brigade serving in Iraq can only watch from Baghdad as Hurricane Katrina bears down on their families and homes in New Orleans... deployed soldiers and their equipment, which includes high water vehicles, Humvees and
generators, will be sorely missed... Bush declared an emergency in
Louisiana and Mississippi and a major disaster in Florida, measures that
allow federal aid and FEMA to be deployed. "We will do everything in our power [sic] to help the people and communities affected by this storm," Bush
said from his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Now watch me chop this wood.
At midnight CDT...0500z...the center of Hurricane Katrina was located near
latitude 27.9 north...longitude 89.5 west or about 90 miles
south-southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River and about 150 miles
south-southeast of New Orleans Louisiana. Katrina is moving toward the
north-northwest near 10 mph...and a turn to the north [toward New
Orleans] is expected over the next 12 to 24 hours. Movement toward...
north-northwest near 10 mph. Maximum sustained winds...160 mph. Minimum
central pressure... 908 mb.
And where is the Louisiana National Guard? Out fighting for Bush crime family Carlyle corporation oil contracts thousands of miles from where by law they SHOULD BE. Out fighting for Cheney investments in Halliburton.
map of Louisana/New Orleans population below sea level:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/2005_HURRICANEKATRINA_GRAPHIC/
storm surge caused by the hurricane would probably come over the levees
that protect the city from the surrounding water of Lake Pontchartrain,
the Mississippi River and marshes.
satellite pic of katrina:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3393262a12,00.html
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,16419322-5001022,00.html
Hurricane Katrina's Effects, at a Glance
Monday August 29, 2005 2:31 AM
By The Associated Press
Hurricane Katrina's effects, at a glance:
FLORIDA:
- Katrina hit the southern tip of Florida on Thursday as a much weaker
Category 1 storm, then headed into the Gulf of Mexico and strengthened to
a Category 5 Hurricane.
- Deaths: Nine
- Evacuations: As the storm aimed at the Gulf Coast, people on Navarre
Beach, Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key were urged to evacuate Sunday.
- Power outages: About 495,200 customers in South Florida remained without
power Sunday afternoon.
- Monetary damage estimates: Initial computer modeling estimates pegged
the insured wind damage at $600 million to $2 billion.
LOUISIANA:
- Evacuations: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered the entire city of
485,000 to evacuate. For those who couldn't, the city opened 10 shelters,
including the Superdome, and urged people to bring three- to five-days
worth of supplies. [Others "vertically vacated," into hotels that are totally packed in New Orleans.]
- Nagin estimated that 80 percent of the city's residents had left,
leaving about 97,000 still in town.
ALABAMA:
- Evacuations: All coastal and low-lying areas of south Mobile County and
the beachfront and flood-prone areas of Baldwin County were told to leave.
- Flooding reported on Dauphin Island.
MISSISSIPPI:
- Gov. Haley Barbour declared a state of emergency Saturday.
- Evacuations: Residents all along the Mississippi Gulf Coast headed
inland Sunday.
- The state is expecting between 250,000 and 350,000 people evacuating
Louisiana to come into Mississippi.
GULF OF MEXICO:
- Oil companies shut down 1 million barrels of refining capacity in the
Gulf, but that amount could be far higher because not every producer
reports data, said Peter Beutel, an oil analyst with Cameron Hanover.
QUOTE:
``I'm really scared. I've been through hurricanes, but this one scares me.
I think everybody needs to get out.'' - Linda Young, 37, while filling up
her gas tank in New Orleans.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5239900,00.html
someone else chimed in:
Katrina will screw Venezuela.
author: lk
Oil is now over $70 per barrel and rising. So how does this screw Venezuela?
Hurricane Katrina is poised to take out the only supertanker offloading facility in the US. It also could destroy or damage at least 8 refineries in the Louisiana and Mississippi areas.
If this happens the price of Gas will be well over $3 per gallon at the pump for most of the US. In some places it will hit $4. However the world price of crude will drop because there will be no accessible market if they can't unload their product in the short term. Venezuela will be forced to sell to Europe and Asia at a reduced price (along with the rest of other oil producing countries)
At $4 a gallon, the average US driver will find other means to move his or her body from point A to point B, either car pooling, bicycle, tele-commuting, etc.
This will further depress the world crude prices.
I'm not predicting Venezuela will go bankrupt, however it isn't going to be an easy ride for them.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/08/323749.shtml
Want to Steer a Hurricane?
Title: HOW TO STEER A HURRICANE, Scalar Wars, The Brave New World of Scalar Electromagnetics
Author: sheeple_wake_up_service
Date: 2004.09.13 07:00
Description: Engineering the weather is duck soup [because they have had less powerful 'haarp' ionospheric heaters for a long time]; they tested that over the U.S. in 1967, and entered upon continuing operations over North America on July 4, 1976 as a grim kind of KGB "Bicentennial Gift" to the United States. Here's how it is done with several interferometers. First, the interferometers can deliberately make "high pressure areas" (cool the air so it shrinks and its "footprint" pressure on the ground increases because its density increases) and "low pressure areas" (heat the air so that expands and its "footprint" pressure on the ground decreases because its density decreases). Well, if one makes the highs and lows where one wishes them, and judiciously and somewhat slowly moves them along a given path, these highs and lows will entrain the jet streams and thus "steer" the weather. "For the past six months I have been undergoing the greatest paradigm shift I have ever had to go through. It has rattled my nerves and shaken my bones. This intense adjustment of my "world" has come about by studying the information given by Col. Tom Bearden at his website Cheniere. The new knowledge there has necessitated a total revision of my ideas about physical reality, the world we live in, and the future of humanity. This paradigm shifting even actually made me dizzy on certain days as I tried to absorb and digest Bearden's vast amount of information. I am not a scientist at all, just a layman, and I have little comprehension of the math and high physics of this new science called "Scalar Electromagnetics." But there is a great deal of information at Cheniere which needs to become common knowledge as fast as possible, for the sake of the survival of life on earth. To that end I have put together this small primer...
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/09/297337.shtml
Charley - Scalar Electromagnetics Used?
By Michael Edward
World Vision Portal.org
8-30-2004
When Charley was approaching Jamaica, the oddest thing took place. It was following a direct line path through the center of Jamaica, but suddenly it made a perfect arched curve to the south, and ended up back on its original course after it had swung around the island. That was just as odd as the sudden right-hand turn it made into Charlotte Harbor. There's no doubt that since hurricane paths have been recorded over the past 200 years, no hurricane ever acted like Charley did or had ever followed such an erratic path. This was one of the biggest reasons Tampa was the predicted landfall area.
There are lots of unanswered questions about Charley...
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/08/296031.shtml
Similarly, with Katrina, there were few signs:
With Few Warning Signs, an Unpredictable Behemoth Grew
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: August 29, 2005
As ripples of vapor-filled turbulence began to organize into a storm over the steamy waters of the southeastern Bahamas early last week, Tropical Depression 12 was born, giving few hints that it was an embryonic monster that would grow into Hurricane Katrina.
...
on Tuesday, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami noted that, GIVEN THE LACK of storm-shredding wind shear and the presence of ample heat in the Atlantic, "at least steady intensification appears to be in order."
From that time on, the storm kept favoring the upper end of the range of possibilities projected by meteorologists and a half-dozen supercomputer simulations.
By Wednesday evening, the hurricane center gave the first hint that what had already become a tropical storm "could intensify a little more than anticipated" and might become a small hurricane before striking southern Florida.
Still, when it struck Florida about 24 hours later - killing nine people and knocking out the electricity for a million more - its power seemed to catch many by surprise.
The storm kept "nudging" the upper limits of the predictions, said Bill Read, a meteorologist who is tracking the storm for the hurricane center. In an unusual manner, the storm kept its swirling shape and retained its strength as it quickly rumbled across the state.
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Forecasters then watched in wonder as a series of conditions, many of them poorly understood, caused the storm to do what no one wanted: intensify, expand and maintain a terrifying trajectory.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/29/national/29gulf.html
You may dislike the implications, though the US military itself has been on the public record of wanting to own the weather by 2025. Steering and artifically creating hurricanes, and testing them out in politically safe places and to create disaster management team strategies, are all of one piece.
In 1976 there was a U.N. Treaty, which Nations signed, promising not to affect each other using weather warfare. So...in other words, the technology was available then...to at least some degree.
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At midnight CDT...0500z...the center of Hurricane Katrina was located near
latitude 27.9 north...longitude 89.5 west or about 90 miles
south-southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River and about 150 miles
south-southeast of New Orleans Louisiana. Katrina is moving toward the
north-northwest near 10 mph...and a turn to the north [toward New
Orleans] is expected over the next 12 to 24 hours. Movement toward...
north-northwest near 10 mph. Maximum sustained winds...160 mph. Minimum
central pressure... 908 mb.
300 am aug 29 2005
ZCZC MIATCEAT2 ALL
TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM
HURRICANE KATRINA TROPICAL CYCLONE POSITION ESTIMATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
3 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
AT 3 AM CDT...0800Z...THE CENTER OF MAJOR HURRICANE KATRINA WAS
ESTIMATED BY AN AIR FORCE RESERVE UNIT RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT
AND NOAA/NWS LAND-BASED DOPPLER RADAR TO BE NEAR LATITUDE 28.5 NORTH
...LONGITUDE 89.6 WEST. THIS POSITION IS ABOUT 55 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND ABOUT
110 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA.
FORECASTER STEWART
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midnight to 3 am
90 miles south-southwest of mouth of Mississippi River
150 miles south-southeast of New Orleans Louisiana.
to
55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUTH OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER
110 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA.
Cam pics look north across the French Quarter, toward Lake Pontchartrain.