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Steve
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Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today
Sat May 18 2002 04:05 AM

Thanks x and CHEERS!! to you as well. Unfortunately that's 6 DAYS instead of 6 HOURS. I don't know statistics for 6 days, but it's gotta be 700 miles if at all in 6 days.(?) But I'd love to see some early tropical action. Often in the transitional months of June and October, low pressure in the Gulf latitudes can be very slow moving even if not classified as tropical.

New Orleans and Jefferson Parish are pretty well prepared for a Cat-1, Cat-2 or fast moving Cat-3. But the one thing we can't handle is torrential rainfall often found in tropical storms and depressions (Frances (97 or 98) was the most recent flood event). If it deluges early, we get swamped.

I think the city's got the drainage pretty close to 1.5-2" in the first hour then almost an inch per hour thereafter (it used to be 1", .5"). Jefferson Parish (East Bank) has improved and is pretty close to New Orleans. As everyone knows, we're in a bowl that goes down to -5' sea level. So when the water starts filling up, you have to electronically pump it out. And if the Lake Pontchartrain is high at that particular time, the city becomes a giant wading pool.

My house is on the Metairie Ridge, so the property is about 3' above sea level. It is also raised about another 3.5', so I don't mind the streets flooding if I've got some cold beer to watch it.

2002 just might be the most interesting season in years. Talk to me Colleen

Peace,

Steve

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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	CFHC	Sat May 18 2002 04:05 AM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Joe	Sun May 19 2002 12:18 AM
Things are looking fired up.	CocoaBeach Dave	Sat May 18 2002 09:43 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	CaneMAn	Sat May 18 2002 11:22 AM
Re: Suspicious GOMEX area.	Kevin	Sat May 18 2002 01:10 PM
Re: Suspicious GOMEX area.	Steve	Sat May 18 2002 02:40 PM
Re: Suspicious GOMEX area.	ShawnS	Sun May 19 2002 12:07 AM
Kevin & ShawnS...	Steve	Sun May 19 2002 12:33 AM
European Model update...	Steve	Sun May 19 2002 12:37 AM
Re: European Model update...	Anonymous	Sun May 19 2002 01:01 AM
Re: European Model update...	Steve	Sun May 19 2002 02:25 AM
Re: European Model update...	ShawnS	Sun May 19 2002 03:37 AM
About the models.	Kevin	Sat May 18 2002 07:34 PM
Re: About the models.	robertn	Sat May 18 2002 08:29 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Anonymous	Sat May 18 2002 02:17 AM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Steve	Sat May 18 2002 04:05 AM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Steve	Sat May 18 2002 04:23 AM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Joe	Sat May 18 2002 01:06 AM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Joe	Fri May 17 2002 07:45 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	jth	Fri May 17 2002 06:24 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	CaneMan	Fri May 17 2002 03:25 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	MikeC	Fri May 17 2002 03:35 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Anonymous	Fri May 17 2002 03:41 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Anonymous	Fri May 17 2002 04:33 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	ShawnS	Sat May 18 2002 12:05 AM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Steve	Sat May 18 2002 12:12 AM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Steve	Sat May 18 2002 12:16 AM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	ShawnS	Fri May 17 2002 05:00 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Anonymous	Fri May 17 2002 02:51 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	jth	Fri May 17 2002 01:05 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Anonymous	Fri May 17 2002 02:41 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Rad	Fri May 17 2002 03:09 AM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Joe	Thu May 16 2002 11:18 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Steve	Thu May 16 2002 11:32 PM
It look like rain is coming for Central Florida.	Kevin	Fri May 17 2002 02:28 AM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Joe	Thu May 16 2002 11:18 PM
Rain Possibly...	CocoaBeach Dave	Thu May 16 2002 05:07 PM
Re: Rain Possibly...	Anonymous	Thu May 16 2002 06:34 PM
Re: Rain Possibly...	Anonymous	Thu May 16 2002 09:27 PM
Re: Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts Today	Unregistered User	Wed May 15 2002 09:55 PM

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