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Skriven 2012-08-31 16:13:48 av Roger Nelson (1:3828/7.0)
   Kommentar till text 3200 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: riding the storm out (was: Twit list)
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On Thu Aug-30-2012 18:14, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Roger Nelson:

RN> ...We now return you to the eye of the hurricane, which I'm still 
RN> in.

 ml> i was trying to post this earlier but my machine trapped on me and
 ml> i lost it... i get weather reports thru here and saw where issac
 ml> was 5 miles EAST of you and then later 0 miles NORTH of you... one
 ml> of the last reports i saw said that issac was then 10 miles
 ml> NORTHWEST of you...

 RN> That depends on the news source you get.  (-|  

 ml> not a news source... specific weather reports from the national
 ml> weather service... these are the reports that new service weather
 ml> reporters use to make their on-air reports to the general populace
 ml> ;)

A lot of imoortant data is omitted because I believe the ws believes most
prople wouldn't understand it.  Our late weatherman thought optherwise, so I
learned a lot from him, although I have to search elsewhere for the missing
data.

 ml> they look like this...

 ml> [QUOTE]
 ml> WTNT34 KNHC 291441
 ml> TCPAT4

 ml> BULLETIN
 ml> HURRICANE ISAAC ADVISORY NUMBER  34
 ml> NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL       AL092012
 ml> 1000 AM CDT WED AUG 29 2012

 ml> ...ISAAC DRENCHING SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA...DANGEROUS STORM SURGE
 ml> AND FLOOD THREAT FROM HEAVY RAINS LIKELY TO CONTINUE THROUGH
 ml> TONIGHT...

Phooey!  I can look outside and see that.

 ml> SUMMARY OF 1000 AM CDT...1500 UTC...INFORMATION
 ml> -----------------------------------------------
 ml> LOCATION...29.6N 90.7W
 ml> ABOUT 0 MI...0 KM N OF HOUMA LOUISIANA
 ml> ABOUT 45 MI...75 KM SW OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA
 ml> MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...75 MPH...120 KM/H
 ml> PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 310 DEGREES AT 6 MPH...9 KM/H
 ml> MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...972 MB...28.70 INCHES
 ml> [/QUOTE]

Which tells me nothing important.  I am still surprised at the number of people
wandering outside during the eye passing over to look around.

 ml> there is more to the report but i'll stop there as the summary
 ml> gives the needed and basic info i was looking at... this report is
 ml> the one i spoke of above with isaac being 0 miled NORTH of
 ml> you/houma ;)

I didn't know this before, but a 15' long tree limb was snapped off during the
back of Isaac passing us, which caused damage to the window behind my computer
station.  A window pane was was disloged and lying on the ground, so just this
morning I put it in its place.  (-8

 RN> We were without power for a time -- between 1830 to 2100 last 
 RN> night and then 0000 to 0900 this morning. When the back part of 
 RN> the storm got to us after the eye wall trudged north at the 
 RN> blinding speed of 7MPH (I used to walk that fast) we had a lot of 
 RN> wind and I was amazed we continued to have power through all of 
 RN> those wind gusts.

 ml> we've had some strong stuff around here, in the past... hurricane
 ml> fran came right thru here and we didn't loose power until someone
 ml> took down a tree and then all hades broke loose as more trees came
 ml> down taking out more lines... yesterday, late in the afternoon, we
 ml> got some high gusts and rain but i don't know if they were related
 ml> to isaac or not... i wasn't where i could look at a radar and
 ml> see...

That happens more often than people who don't experience these storms know.

 ml> i hope you and yours make it out alright! :)

 RN> I didn't go anywhere.  (-:  Anyway, all is well here.  Thanks for
 RN> asking.  

 ml> you're still upright and mobile O:)  -=B-)

And still have my health!


Regards,

Roger 
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
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