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Hurricane Katrina is now a Category 5 hurricane ... top winds are 175 mph. Landfall is still expected early Monday. It looks like New Orleans is going to get hit hard.. It's 6 feet under sea level so it will flood easy.. hopefully everybody got out and nobody gets hurt.

From watching the news, it does indeed look like New Orleans will flood. The question is just how bad. The mayor demanded that everyone evacuate the entire city, but some 40,000 people have either no way of leaving, or not enough money. So, from what I have heard they are going to shelter them in the Dome that the Saints play in. This storm does not look good though, the highest winds recorded in a category 5 were previously 150 mph. This one looks like one for the record books.

I have a feeling it's going to be catastrophic. [Image: jawdropblue.gif]

I hope everyone gets to shelter. It looks like it's going to affect us on Wednesday.

Yep heard today could be strongest hurricane ever.....And are expecting us to get maybe 5 or more inches of rain from it.....

Hopefully no one gets hurt and too many homes aren't destroyed. Like everyone said, New Orleans is going to get the worst of it. I saw where the mayor told everyone to evacuate too.

I hate rain so hopefully we don't get too much of it as a result. Makes driving bad and flooding here is always a possibility.

Hopefully everyone is leaving, I know I would if I was in the path of Katrina!!

The winds are now at 160 mph... so it's not looking good for New Orleans and other areas around there... hopefully it will move quick so the flooding will not be as bad for them or us

They are predicting hurricane force winds all the way into Tennessee..
this will also more than likely affect gas prices because of all the oil lost

The Godfather Wrote:This storm does not look good though, the highest winds recorded in a category 5 were previously 150 mph. This one looks like one for the record books.

There have been winds recorded higher than 150 mph...150 mph is only a Cat 4, with storms of 156 mph+ making a storm a Cat 5. Regardless this is a monster storm that is going to totally kill Nawlins. If this thing hits directly Nawlins may be unhabitable by humans for months. NO is a great city that I love visiting and I hope the Big Easy misses the worse of the storm but it is looking like that will not happen.

There have only been 3 category 5 hurricanes to ever hit the US

15thRegionCrazy Wrote:There have only been 3 category 5 hurricanes to ever hit the US

And this one looks to be the biggest and possibly strongest of the 3(though it could still weaken before landfall but doubtful). Having partied on Bourbon Street a few times it is going to be sad tommorrow looking at video of 20-30 ft. of standing water there if the worse case scenario happens.

Cnn is saying the NO could be under 30 feet of water tomorrow. Thats terrible news. I just hope the Dome stays intact. There is upwards of 40,000 people staying there for last resort shelfter. May god be with them

Fox News is reporting that winds have torn several small holes in the roof of the Superdome and it's leaking... but it's just the fabric that has torn so there is no structural damage

Some homes in New Orleans are allready flooded to the ceilings....I guess the levees are not going to hold.

They said they think that they will hold and New Orleans will not get the storm surge that they were expected to

Hurricane is hitting and all hell is breaking loose. Storms are already here in Ky. so Wednesday at the latest we will be getting HUUUGE storms.

I watched coverage of the hurricane all day and well, I am afraid that so many people are going to be killed.

New Orleans dodged a major bullet again but sooner or later their run will run out. I am going to New Orleans Spt. 24th and I am so happy that there will be a city to go to. It should get interesting here tommorrow night and Wednesday. We could see winds anywhere from 20-50 mph and up to 6 inches of rain...last I heard though areas from Lexington and west in KY will see the worse of whats left over from Katrina. I have been to Bilouxi Mississippi before and I am anxious to see what is left there...from what I have heard it got pounded. Mississippi's allready horrible economy is going to get a lot worse if those casinos took major damage.

The Lake Pontchatrain levee has breached..they said that water was rising 1 inch every 5 minutes and was flooding the Tulane University Hospital

Also, they are saying at least 50 people dead in one Mississippi County

After watching the videos of New Orleans last nite and this morning I have decided not to go down there on Sept 24th...there will be a lot of disease down there right now. Oh well it was a road trip with some friends but I am staying put right here in KY now. Downtown is flooding now and it is getting worse down there. Lake Ponatacharane(Sp?)is half the size of Rhode Island so there is a lot of water that is going ti fill New Orleans now that there levee has been breached. Pleas pray for the GREAT people along the Gulf Coast. This is just devestating for Mississippi. They have a awful ecenomy anyways and the casino industry in Bilouxi was HUGE for the entire state of Missississpi and that may be gone now. When this is all over it would not surprise me to see hundreds of people dead. Some friends and me went to Bilouxi, Gulfport, and New Orelans 2 years ago on a road trip during spring break and I pray that the great people along the Gulf Coast, from Mobile to Nawlins, that we met made it thru this alive.

They were saying ealier the levee at Lake Pontchartrain that breached wasnt the only one that has.. im hoping the death toll doesnt rise too high but it's not looking good right now..CNN has reports of bodies floating in water in New Orleans and the water is still rising.. They also declared Martial Law in New Orleans earlier today and told everyone to get out if they could...