It seems that there is as of right now Hurricane Ernesto to a hurricane on Sunday. Right now, according to the National Hurricane Center and NOAA, Ernesto is a tropical storm with sustained winds of over 60 mph tracking indicates it will go about Cuba and head into the Gulf of Mexico.
The Hurricane Center can only predict with accuracy when possible paths from 5 days. 3 days will show a better accuracy, but we should also remember that hurricanes can be veryunpredictable as recent ones that have struck Florida have actually reversed direction headed back out to sea, reorganized and strengthened, then come back again. So, there are no guarantees, but it sure does look like hurricane Ernesto could take a path that would endanger New Orleans and Biloxi all over again.
Both Biloxi and New Orleans have a long and hard road ahead for rebuilding after the devastating landfall of Katrina last year which went on Record as the most costly national disaster ever in the U.S. When Hurricane Katrina made landfall it had weakened from a Category 5 hurricane of category 3 with winds of 111-130 mph. Even if only a Category 3, it is not more damage than any Category 4 or 5 storm (with winds of more than 131 mph). "Katrina had" more to do with the topography and economy of the affected areas.
New Orleans actually is, and adjacent waters of 3mostly below sea level. It is held by a series of dams that keep out the water. These dykes are not made for a high level of hurricane storm surge. Storm surges usually accompany hurricanes may require 15 to 40 meters. New Orleans has amount that a mass evacuation of New Orleans when it was found that Katrina, a category was then conducted 5, the right range for them. The problem was that many of the inhabitants of poor, sick, disabled,elsewhere and leave not in a position to the city and its surroundings. So, if the dams burst and flooded the city, there were thousands who were stranded, drowned, etc ... According to recent reports on CNN by the Army Corps of Engineers, the levees have been rebuilt, but are not capable of another major hurricane.
Ernesto could be that the big hurricane. Right now Ernesto is feeling the effects of winds Sheering in general, the force and can even divert stormwhole. With these winds Sheering Ernesto strength has not changed or weakened in the slightest. This shows that have strength and stamina. According to the National Hurricane Center Ernesto should arise from the shearing winds tomorrow and then quickly build mph into a hurricane with sustained winds of more than 74. The route then runs through the same warm and optimal conditions in the Gulf of Mexico, as in Katrina last year went. Weather forecasts alsoshow that the weather conditions will most likely take the promotion of the hurricane a trace of the northern area of Louisiana and Mississippi. These current and near future weather forecasts also point out that it is very likely that Ernesto will be a minimum of Category 3 or 4 hurricane before landfall in America.
Yes, it looks like Ernesto may well lead the next big storm in New Orleans. I want to change that to all the factual and hope it hisses or goesback into the sea as the loss of life or significant hardening of a storm like Katrina caused is terrible. I have a question, but if we have spent over 70 billion U.S. dollars repairing the field, why do not we build stronger levees, either, if we just went through a terrible tragedy for the same reason that they were too weak.
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