Gustav Update

[Lightning Gene]

Hurricane GUSTAV Update
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WTNT62 KNHC 301718
TCUAT2
HURRICANE GUSTAV TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL072008
120 PM EDT SAT AUG 30 2008


DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT
GUSTAV HAS CONTINUED TO STRENGTHEN AND NOW HAS MAXIMUM WINDS
NEAR 145 MPH...230 KM/HR WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THIS MAKES GUSTAV AN
EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON
HURRICANE SCALE. A SPECIAL ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED AT ABOUT 200 PM
EDT TO MODIFY THE INITIAL AND FORECAST INTENSITIES. THE SPECIAL
PUBLIC ADVISORY WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF THE INTERMEDIATE PUBLIC
ADVISORY PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED FOR THAT TIME.

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FORECASTER KNABB

This Thing is Getting HUGE and SCARY NOW

 

[Newlook]

Which way is it headed Gene? Some tell me that New Orleans is the target and others say it will head towards TX after it gets done ripping Cuba apart....

 

[Lightning Gene]

It can still go anywhere.......Will know more tomorrow for sure.....Houston to New orleans is possible...

 

[Palmetto Roof]

Don't look pretty!

 

[Scott D.]

Man, If I could just get a couple of roofs in his weekend/monday, all that rain would clean them up real nice!

 

[Terry Campbell]

Makes me Glad I live in the Desert.

 

[jlpressure]

Good luck to all. Be careful and get out when they tell you to. I hope this is the only one this season

Jeff

 

[JohnB]

Well we got Katrina and here we go again .. They say this coud become twice as bad as Katrina.. This time I am going North Far North.. Dont want any trees falling on my FX4

 

[copgib]

There is like 3-storms out there just waiting to pound all of us living in the south. Time to tie everything down! Hugh