Hurricane Katrina

[Yellowdog]

If I knew where to begin I would considering going to help with the clean up . I have a place to stay on the n. side of ponchartrain but we still don't know if my friend's neighborhood is there or not! What a mess.. I really feel bad for the folks in MS. Looks like it was the hardest hit..

 

[Tree Machine]

Oh my goodness. A hundred miles inland and the eye is still well-formed. The eye will decay, though, within hours. Storm is really moving fast.

 

[Tree Machine]

There she's breaking up. I'm noting a slight shift to the east, but it's a torrential rainmaker and tornado spawner on a due track north. It's Monday afternoon. I am 200 km north of the top of this map, and we are feeling the breezes from the outer bands. It's refreshing on this hot Summer afternoon. I almost feel guilty admitting that.

 

[Tree Machine]

More interesting pics. Red lines are areas of strong, straight line winds, meteorological effects some thousand kilometers Southeast, to Cuba. It's like a backsiide, 'vacuum effect' from the storm. The air is really moving in the tropics today.

 

[Tree Machine]

Monday Evening. The skies over New Orleans and Mobile Alabama will clear by tomorrow morning. It will be a bright, hot day tomorrow in the South.

Tomorrow we assess the wreckage. Isn't this hurricane only 4 or 5 days old? Katrina, you're a baad girl. Tomorrow's helicopter footage shoud be unreal. It's still going to be a rough night, they aren't out of the woods yet.

No sunny skies tomorrow for Tennessee.

 

[Tree Machine]

There's some nasty stuff brewin off the coast of Africa. We'll be watching that. The waters out there are at their warmest right now and will start cooling off next month. Hurricanes are Mother Nature's way of redistributing energy.

The red dot is where I live.

 

[Bermie]

[QUOTE The red dot is where I live

Hey, the teeny white dot way to the SE of Cape Hatteras is where I live!
Watching that mess of cloud to our SE, tropical depression 13.

 

[Koa Man]

During Hurricane Iniki in 1992 on Kauai, the catagory of that storm is listed as unknown because the Weather Service wind meter got broken with the needle stuck at over 200mph. The winds was so strong that it pulled some patches of tall grass out of the ground.

 

[Tree Machine]

The coast is clear

Hey Bermie, wasn't Katrina born right over near where you live? You weren't in a bad mood that day, were you? Did you whip up some weird, Bermudan meteorological mojo? Or did you heave this hurricane at Master Blaster as a joke? Well, it's not funny.

Heh heh.

Koa, I've been to Kauai and we would hike to a waterfall deep in the jungle and we'd get there and there would be chickens. Pull off on a scenic overlook, chickens. Beaches chickens. We were informed that hurricane Iniki spread livestock all over, including chickens. On Kauai there are no natural predators to the mighty chicken, so they took up home wherever they were, and tried to scratch out a living. (I am so funny tonight). They do well wherever tourists go because we'll toss em some bread. I got a rise out of my wife when I threw bread pieces at her feet and it would seem (to her) like groups of chickens were attacking her toes. She didn't find it all that amusing. Practical jokes in the wake of Iniki.

OK, here's Katrina, Midnight. It appears the skies over New Orleans, Louisiana are clear, but Chattanooga, Tennessee is getting some 'right uppercut' winds, rough night for you guys.

We'll keep an eye on Bermie's tropical depression 13.

 

[Tree Machine]

Tuesday morning. Katrina is still moving fast. This lessens the potential for flooding; another plus for those in her path.

It's raining here in Indianapolis, sprinkling really, and no winds to speak of. Katrina has been downgraded to a low pressure system. New York and Washington DC, it's gonna be moist today.

Out east, in the Pacific ocean where the red dot is, that's Bermuda, where Bermie lives. There's some huge cloudwork to her southeast, but nothing that seems like it's rotating counterclockwise.

I will post one more time around noon today, and that's it for this storm. Thank you all for letting me bring that to you.

 

[priest]

It looks like the flooding was devastating in many places.

It's difficult to tell from watching the coverage if there was serious tree damage, and where. We're planning on heading down there. I don't know where to begin or how much equipment/manpower we'll need at this point.

 

[Psychodoe]

Im in Navarre FL we got hit by Ivan and Dennis. We started getting strong winds at 12:00 am Monday from Katrina. The reports coming from the area are not good. Flood waters even here have not gone down yet. The tree damage is very serious. Local news is reporting large trees down from Gulf Shores To New Orleans.

 

[Jumper]

She is supposed to arrive here on the north shore of Lake Ontario this evening....up to four inches of rain and wind gusts of 50 mph. Hopefully Toronto doesn't flood again this time as we finally got the basement dried out and all the trash taken to the dump. What a sh*tty job (literally)

 

[Bermie]

Out east, in the Pacific ocean where the red dot is, that's Bermuda, where Bermie lives. There's some huge cloudwork to her southeast, but nothing that seems like it's rotating counterclockwise.

IQUOTE]

Ummm TM, where'd you learn geography?
As far as I know Bermuda's always been in the Atlantic!!

 

[D]

If anyone is interested. I am heading down in less than a month after the dust clears a little. I am in big with insurance carriers and will get direct leads. We could help each other greatly by working together. I will sell the roofing, siding and gutters and you all sell the tree and stump removal. I will have offices in Mobile, Biloxi, and New Orleans. We can share leads and possibly office space/warehouse space if there is any left. I have to finish up the storm I am working in North Dakota first. Let me know if anyone is interested. No druggies or poor business ethics need apply. I will check you out before I give you leads as I will not screw my deal up with the insurance companies. At any rate, right now we should just pray everyone is in good shape. It is a extremely sad situation. So yes we will profit from it but also feel good by helping them out when they need it most.

 

[D]

I searched all users that were in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. I wondered how you were doing. Good you are ok.

 

[fordsrbetter]

hey guys been stopping in for about a year just reading and learning
darin i would be very interested, been considering going down for other hurricanes, just didnt know how to approach this are there any special permits required? i called down there and nobody knew if they could issue temp state licenses. would i benefit driving the bucket truck down there? my thinking is the ground is so saturated that climbing is the best for this. what about the chipper? sorry for rambling

D.J. Walsh
Precision Tree Choppers
319-795-1452 cell

 

[Elmore]

I searched all users that were in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. I wondered how you were doing. Good you are ok.

Okay up here in North/Central Alabama. Just one pine down and a whole lot of leaf and twig litter. Lord have mercy on those along the coast.

 

[TreeJunkie]

chipper won't be worth much down there. Everything goes to the curb.

Take buckets and log loaders for major contract work

 

[fordsrbetter]

so material handler and bucket trucks would be the best bet, so everything gets left on the side of the road? no hauling ok thanks very much