Drudge was saying yesterday that Issac would rival Katrina
Tropical Storm Isaac is on the verge of becoming a Category 1 hurricane before it makes landfall, but forecasters say the biggest threat will be the rainfall and storm surge, not the wind.
Tropical Storm Isaac Nears With Rainfall the Biggest Concern – ABC News
I know my first thought was thinking back to Katrina and her waves. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z_usl6i9IY
It’ll probably make it up to a bare category 1 today with the heating of the sun….wait, the sun effects weather? Weird…….. It’ll be interesting to see what the ground level stations say during the time period when Isaac passes. Certainly, even tropical storm conditions are dangerous, but will we get hurricane force winds at ground level?
Oh, and Happy 2,500 days since a major hurricane hit the US day!
But he also had the headline:
“No mandatory evacuations in New Orleans…”
Which is it Matt?
Drudge rarely says. They just link. And the wilder the claim, the more readers it brings into Drudge.
NHC have a new category of storm: ISAAC NEARLY A HURRICANE
Bit like IRENE.
Sat loop show that Isaac is having trouble becoming a hurricane.
If the Gulf Coast is not destroyed by a hurricane, it will deflate the left almost as much as the Arctic not being “ice free”.
New Orleans population (2010 Census): 343,829
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hurricane flood control infrastructure since Katrina: $14.45 billion
Cost per capita: $42,027
It had better work. I’ll let others decide if this was a waste of money on people who choose to live below sea level.