Doomsday.

[plonq]

You know it may to be bad when the National Weather Service issues bulletins like this:


URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005


DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED

HURRICANE KATRINA
A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED
STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE
CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.

ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE
OUTSIDE!

LAZ038-040-050-056>070-282100-
ASSUMPTION-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON-LOWER LAFOURCHE-
LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE-ORLEANS-
ST. CHARLES-ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST. TAMMANY-TANGIPAHOA-
UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-UPPER ST. BERNARD-
UPPER TERREBONNE-
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

Comments

[ramalion.livejournal.com]

This is NOT from the NWS. While this is a possible outcome, the NWS has not issued an advisory like this.

[aureth.livejournal.com]

It's a NOAA warning:

http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iwszone?Sites=:laz062#t2

[ramalion.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I just found it. I was looking under the 'Hurricane Local Statements' where I'd expect to find something like this. It was actually located in the 'Non Precipitation Warnings'.

Really...I'm horribly surprised they are issuing a warning like this.

Haha

[stahi.livejournal.com]

They replaced it with a new, classier warning.

[plonq.livejournal.com]

If not, then it's an awfully good fake.

[ramalion.livejournal.com]

I did actually find it, and it's a real advisory. The language and tone used in it really surprised me, that's why I thought it was faked.

[ex-n.livejournal.com]

I think they are trying to avoid any sugar-coating of this advisory. It's the worst ever and people need to realise it.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

OMG 0.0

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

Do not venture outside? Staying inside doesn't seem like an option either. RUN! RUN!
Gee,,,they could have tried to sugar coat it a bit. This looks grim.

[the-lizard-rat.livejournal.com]

Teleported here from a link in the_gneech's LJ.

I wasn't aware it was this bad. Holy crap.

Lizard Rat out.
In the Land of Nor'easters in Winter in Albany NY

[oshawa.livejournal.com]

I love how one of your tags for this is 'vaseline'

[furahi.livejournal.com]

I noticed too :P

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Jesus. I can't bless being in the Pacific Northwest powerfully enough... yah, the occasional earthquake/volcano, but yargh.

[fuzzytoedcollie.livejournal.com]

*ack!*
NOT good :(

[farlo.livejournal.com]

Woah. I wonder what the revised, classier warning is like?

Maybe soemthing nice and cuddly like:
"SATAN HIMSELF IS TRAVERSING THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES ... RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!".

Wasn't this supposed to be an almost-hurricane that shouldn't cause any big worry? Now it is "The Perfect Storm II", starring several States as supporting cast.

[unciaa.livejournal.com]

Geez... o.O