{"id":33310,"date":"2010-08-28T10:11:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/?p=33310"},"modified":"2013-08-28T06:59:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T11:59:53","slug":"katrina-the-doomsday-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/?p=33310","title":{"rendered":"KATRINA: The Doomsday Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Hurricane Katrina intensified rapidly and reached Category Five status that fateful Sunday, August 28 2005, forecaster Robert Ricks at the National Weather Service in Slidell decided it was time to issue the dreaded catastrophic damage statement. <\/p>\n

Some thought it was a joke. <\/p>\n

Some thought it was overhyped. <\/p>\n

Many didn’t listen. <\/p>\n

It turned out be very prophetic and unfortunately, very true. <\/p>\n

URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE
\nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
\n1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005<\/p>\n

…DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED…<\/p>\n

.HURRICANE KATRINA…A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED
\nSTRENGTH…RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969. <\/p>\n

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS…PERHAPS LONGER. AT
\nLEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
\nFAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL…LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
\nDAMAGED OR DESTROYED.<\/p>\n

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
\nPARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
\nFRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
\nBLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE…INCLUDING SOME
\nWALL AND ROOF FAILURE.<\/p>\n

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY…A
\nFEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.<\/p>\n

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD…AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
\nAS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY
\nVEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
\nADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS…PETS…AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
\nWINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.<\/p>\n

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS…AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
\nAND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
\nINCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.<\/p>\n

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
\nTHE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING…BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
\nCROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
\nKILLED.<\/p>\n

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
\nHURRICANE FORCE…OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE…ARE
\nCERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.<\/p>\n

ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET…DO NOT VENTURE
\nOUTSIDE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Hurricane Katrina intensified rapidly and reached Category Five status that fateful Sunday, August 28 2005, forecaster Robert Ricks at the National Weather Service in Slidell decided it was time to issue the dreaded catastrophic damage statement. Some thought it was a joke. Some thought it was overhyped. Many didn’t listen. It turned out be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}