Four days after Hurricane Katrina hit South Florida, people are coping without electricity and many of the basics of life.
Katrina was downgraded to a category four as it hit the gulf coast of the US last night.
The eye of the storm wobbled as it approached land, sparing the city of New Orleans the worst impact and as it churns inland, has been downgraded to a category 2.
As I write this, emergency personnel are preparing to move through parts of the old city, while other parts of the state, Mississippi and Alabama are hammered.
The Canadian hurricane centre in Halifiax is now actively tracking Katrina. What is left of the storm is expected to be in Canada Wednesday.
Published 3 years, 1 month agoWhen it reaches Canada, the storm is expected to track through southern Ontario and will move along the St Lawrence River through Quebec, but it’s still too early to pinpoint it, said Roussel.
“The track is kind of ill defined at the moment, but it’s heading toward those regions,” he said.
It’s anyone’s guess as to what kind of troubles Katrina could cause for Canada’s transportation systems.
“Any significant weather like that post-tropical depression could produce quite a bit of disruption,” Roussel said. “It’s too early to tell where, but at the moment we can tell. . . it will be affecting the regions significantly.”
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I’m scared to death! I’m way far removed from New Orlenes, near Seattle, and I’m scared. It’s 72 hours after, and there were warnings of possible problems and yet today, August 31st, President Bush is giving the FEMA Director to go ahead to do whatever needs to be done…TODAY???? Why, when they had even a remote chance of the storm hitting, didn’t the Naval Ships start out, like on Friday or Saturday. Why did it take until today to get them started on their 5 day trek. Or the Hope ship….7 days away. My God. I live in Earthquake country. If we had an 8.0 earthquake, we’ll be in the same boat. Yeah, I’m scared at how unprepared we are.
I do appreciate all that is being done and God Bless them all.
Fear is a reasonable response to an overwhelming event. I don’t know what it is like to live in an earthquake zone, if you survive the big one you’d be on your own and as prepared as you can be. Living in Seattle I imagine you’ve been well trained on how to prepare for a quake and how to survive after.
Watching the difficulty the governments are having in responding to Katrina, it has to be very scary.
I wish I could say something comforting, God bless you.