Hurricane Season Show on WKRG Links on Website

[beachbum_al]

Thought you would be interested in these

http://www.wkrg.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WKRG/MGArticle/KRG_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137836369068

[TSmith274]

Thanks for posting this. Just watched the whole thing. Why doesn't Mobile have hurricane protection levees? With the lessons learned in New Orleans, I believe they could be constructed stronger and save Mobile from its worse case scenario. Or, am I off-base here? Seems like an aweful lot of flooding depicted in that show.

[beachbum_al]

I was wondering the same thing. Any one that is familiar with the Mobile area knows where the Malls are located. When they said that there would be water up that far I almost fell out. If there was any chance I would stay during a Cat 5 that show made a impression on me that probably saved my life. I will not be staying in the area for that type of storm. I always felt safe inland in Fairhope but I am not sure safe is even a word in this case. Safe would be away from here in the other direction.

[CrazyC83]

I was wondering the same thing. Any one that is familiar with the Mobile area knows where the Malls are located. When they said that there would be water up that far I almost fell out. If there was any chance I would stay during a Cat 5 that show made a impression on me that probably saved my life. I will not be staying in the area for that type of storm. I always felt safe inland in Fairhope but I am not sure safe is even a word in this case. Safe would be away from here in the other direction.

The winds alone would send me screaming out of the path of a Category 5 hurricane, forget the storm surge...

[SurvivedIvan]

Well I live right across the bay from Mobile, in Baldwin Co. and from what I gathered from the show last night they said something about how Mobile is different from New Orleans in that the water wouldn't stay as long as it did there...something along those lines I think. But yeah, if a cat 5 came through the middle of Mobile Co. or right up through Mobile Bay it would be bad over here too. The wind would be insane over here since we're far enough inland that we wouldn't get the storm surge.

[beachbum_al]

Well I live right across the bay from Mobile, in Baldwin Co. and from what I gathered from the show last night they said something about how Mobile is different from New Orleans in that the water wouldn't stay as long as it did there...something along those lines I think. But yeah, if a cat 5 came through the middle of Mobile Co. or right up through Mobile Bay it would be bad over here too. The wind would be insane over here since we're far enough inland that we wouldn't get the storm surge.

We must be neighbors because I live across the bay in Baldwin County too! Born and Raised here, went off to college, live a couple of years in central Alabama, and return home to raise my children where I grew up.

I also remember them saying that instead of having water that stayed in the area it would be here for a couple of hours and then start moving out.