Hurricane Katrina Devastates The Gulf Coast.

[QB Eagles]

Basically an enormous tornado is about to consume the whole region.

[PhillyGirl]

That's creepy.

[Rome]

Pressure has risen slightly to 904 millibars.  Winds are remaining steady @ 165 mph but the geeks at the Weather Channel keep insisting that further slight weakening is possible.

Honestly, I don't now how much difference 150 mph is from 165 mph in terms of destruction but it can't be that much different.

[PhillyGirl]

Superdome....

[Sgt PSN]

It's their first "sell out". 

[PhillyGirl]

Pressure has risen slightly to 904 millibars.  Winds are remaining steady @ 165 mph but the geeks at the Weather Channel keep insisting that further slight weakening is possible.

Honestly, I don't now how much difference 150 mph is from 165 mph in terms of destruction but it can't be that much different.

NHC forecaster Ed Rappaport said Katrina's strength could fluctuate before it reaches shore but noted the difference between a high Category 4 and a low Category 5 was practically inconsequential.

[Rome]

We're feeling the outermost effects of the storm all the way in Daytona.  Not the outer bands, necessarily, but the moisture that is being drawn up from the south by this monster is laying over us like a wet blanket.  We're getting storms firing off one after another about 20 miles inland.

Just unreal.  We're like 600 miles from New Orleans.

[Sgt PSN]

I just recruited a guy getting off Active Duty to join the Active Reserves (which is still Active Duty, just working with reservists).  Anywho, I got him orders down to Belle Chase, LA and he just arrived there last week.  He's probably not too happy with me right now but hopefully he's ok. 

[Eagles76ersFan]

hah...isn't the band that sings "Walking on Sunshine" named Katrina and the Waves?

[TexasEagle]

I'm wondering how the cemetaries will hold up being that the graves are all above ground and everything.

[General_Failure]

I'm wondering how the cemetaries will hold up being that the graves are all above ground and everything.

There's a Carlin joke in there somewhere.

[WEST is GOD]

I think people are more concerned about the people still alive than the people already dead. If no one evacuates and this thing gets REALLY bad then the entire town of NO could be a graveyard.

[Diomedes]

Meh.

It was a stupid place to put a city anyway.

[PhillyGirl]

Uh oh:

Roof of Superdome in New Orleans, where thousands evacuated ahead of Hurricane Katrina, is leaking rain. Details soon.

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[Diomedes]

Ten bucks says it was leaking last week and the week before that, too.   Good job by the media ramping up the suspense though...