30 foot surge confirmed by FEMA
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And the most amazing thing to also keep in mind is that virtually every single drop of that water shown in the pictures above is wind-driven sea water/storm surge pushed in from the Gulf. All in all, there was relatively "VERY LITTLE" rain associated with Katrina, especially here on the immediate coastline. And for the surge to have reached 603/I-10 to the height it did leaves very little reason to doubt FEMA's report or it its authenticity. As I've said before, and I'll say again, we got 3 feet in our house here in Biloxi, and that's on TOP OF the ~30 feet we are already above MSL!!
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>>Thanks, DH. Gonna be an interesting thread once the nay-sayers get cranked up. I've pretty much decided to hold my eyewitness accounts in check as they don't seem to have much credibility anyway...
Depends on who you ask. It's got credibility with me. I've been to the MS Gulf Coast since the storm (and passed through numerous times). I've been back to Metairie 5 times since the storm. Hell, I'm living on the mostly ruined Dauphin Island, AL right now.
No wimpy "Cat 3" that made landfall 100 miles SE of me and then 80-90 miles East the second time was going to cause the destruction that I've seen (including the giant 53 year old Pecan Tree that's currently lying on my house). Bottom line is that if Katrina was a weak Category 3, she was a whole new class of storm. She was massive in size, had insane wind gusts reported all along the Northern Gulf (and interior), had a Cat 5 level storm surge (set the new records and bars for that matter), and is BY FAR the most destructive storm in US History (dollars and homes/real estate destroyed).
The "naysayers" can say what they want from a technical standpoint. Andrew was a kitten and Camille a walk in the park in comparison is what I have to say to them.
Steve
Depends on who you ask. It's got credibility with me. I've been to the MS Gulf Coast since the storm (and passed through numerous times). I've been back to Metairie 5 times since the storm. Hell, I'm living on the mostly ruined Dauphin Island, AL right now.
No wimpy "Cat 3" that made landfall 100 miles SE of me and then 80-90 miles East the second time was going to cause the destruction that I've seen (including the giant 53 year old Pecan Tree that's currently lying on my house). Bottom line is that if Katrina was a weak Category 3, she was a whole new class of storm. She was massive in size, had insane wind gusts reported all along the Northern Gulf (and interior), had a Cat 5 level storm surge (set the new records and bars for that matter), and is BY FAR the most destructive storm in US History (dollars and homes/real estate destroyed).
The "naysayers" can say what they want from a technical standpoint. Andrew was a kitten and Camille a walk in the park in comparison is what I have to say to them.
Steve
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When I pushed west to NOLA after it hit, there were household appliances washed up on the ten...and fishing boats not too far behind them.
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