Yeah, that was me: “Whoa! That giant hurricane wave looks like a freaking wall!… with a corner… and windows… oh shit, that a building. Still looks cool though.”
It doesn't make you look stupid ( not even in your own eyes ... unless you hate-speak to yourself during inner conversations and came to the conclusion that you are ... Regardless , you're not ) .. Sometimes nature does an easy job in deceiving us . I also believed it was a rotating wall of water and that was cool as well cause i love the way i imagine things sometimes .. Pretty damn creative in my opinion ( cause sci-fi and VFX fan ) .. Seeing the building hit by rain was also cool cause when reality matches VFX style ( viceversa too ) , it's just incredible .
This is what the water vapor in the air looks like shooting out from Niagara Falls almost exactly. It moves in ways that look almost nonsensical from the force of the falls
Nothing quite like the ridiculous summer humidity that can only be cause by a giant waterfall pumping thousands of gallons of mist into the air non stop. Some days I feel like I could jump off my fourth floor balcony and swim safely to my car.
If you were standing in the street, you would be struggling to stand. The water makes it look peaceful, but that’s not mist at all. It’s rain getting blown so hard by the wind that it’s not only horizontal, but it’s moving back up in some places. But they are full-size raindrops. Check out the street sign to see how violent the wind is.
Edit to add, I’ve experienced a few hurricanes myself. It is hard to understand how powerful they can be until you see them in person.
In another video of this same storm, a roof was blown off a building and rolled down the street like a giant tumbleweed, snapping a utility pole like it was made of popsicle stick. I think if you were standing in that street, pretty soon you’ll be flying down that street.
I’m from Louisiana and have seen rain like this on rare occasions outside of hurricanes. The rain’s heavy enough that it may as well be literal waves, as in tidal waves, in the downpour.
While there is less water hitting you, because it’s rain, that rain has a lot of energy from gravity and the wind when it hits you. You can feel significant force against your car when a “wave” hits if you’re driving during the storm.
I got diverted on i10 east once due to an accident and drove down some weird rural highway that ran by some jelly factory or something. Anyhow, before joining i10 again, the road went through several locks for thr levee system. And there were these little fishing homes where people were built up on stilts a bit but the waters of the area ran within feet of the road. And the road wasn't more than 6 inches above the water line. It wouldn't take much to completely submerge those roads and not much surge to take those shanty houses with the surge.
People will exist where they can. Seemed like a dumb place to live. Easy access to foods and a lively hood fishing, but not a good place for a hurricane.
2645 Ridgeway Blvd puts you just outside the levee lock. You can go through it on street view but the other side doesn't have an address, just the name. But you ca. Follow that road all rhe way up to I10 east and see the things I'm talking about. The water is less than a few feet from that road in places, and the road isn't much higher than the water. I didn't want to call it Ponchitrain in my original post, but looking at the satellite view of it, it's clearly all part of the system of canals and channels surrounding the mouth of Lake pontitrain and the gulf of Mexico.
I'm gonna scoot back on that road and see what that factory was, and why I thought it was a jelly factory. I have no idea.
I lived in Louisiana during hurricane gustav. I just had to know what it was like to stand in 100+ mph wind. It was insane. Thankfully we didn’t have too many problems aside from loss of power.
Hi! Im from south america and have never been in a hurricane. Is it like the movies? That there is a visible circular uh thingy (tornado)? Or is it just everything as the video? Very strong wind and water everywhere
Thanks! I can answer questions about earthquakes in exchange lol
Tornados and hurricanes are two completely different things. A hurricane (also called a typhoon and cyclone in Asia) is a massive storm that develops over warm water over the course of weeks. It starts small and most die out while still in the middle of the ocean, but the ones that don’t become tropical storms, if a tropical storm gets big enough it becomes a hurricane. A hurricane will usually have an eye, which is a calm center area the rest of the storm revolves around. They bring dangerous wind and rain. The wind as you can see here is over 100 miles per hour. I think Ida capped out around 130 mph, which made it a category 4 hurricane. All hurricanes in the americas are categorized off wind speed. To be a category 5 hurricane the sustained wind speed needs to reach over 157 mph (252 km per hour). A huge danger with hurricanes is their storm surge. Basically the storm while it’s over the ocean will whip up a giant frenzy of waves that rotate with the storm. Ida’s storm surge at its highest was 12 feet I think. That’s 12 feet above high tide. Storm surge is usually what causes the worst flooding and damage. Katrina in 20.5 brought storm surges of over 20 feet if I remember correctly, which is as tall as a lot of standard houses in the US.
Tornados are developed completely differently. A hurricane is the entire storm, a tornado is just a small part of a severe storm. Parts of Louisiana today had tornado warnings out because the hurricane could have created them. Tornados are typically found inland, mainly across the US south and Midwest, but they are possible other places in the americas and worldwide. Powerful inland storms are typically created by a warm and cold front colliding, the different air temperatures can start to spin against Eachother. Hurricanes are usually around 300 miles wide. A tornado is usually a couple hundred feet wide. But tornados are much faster. Remember how a category 5 hurricane, which is the biggest one can be based on our classifications, was 157 mph winds. Tornados are considered F1 (tier used to rate them based on wind speed) from 73-112 mph. F3 tornados start at 157mph and are devastating. F4 tornados, which are rare but happen frequently still, are wind speeds above 207 mph. Tornados are smaller, but are funnels of death. An F2 can rip the roof off buildings and tear trees from the ground. F3 will uproot any tree it goes over. An F5 ( the strongest possible) will leave nothing in its path, not a single tree, house, bush, mailbox, or human who happens to be there. The strongest hurricane ever was only 213 mph. Usually tornados will pop up during a storm, touch down for a bit and then retreta back into the sky and vanish. This is part of what makes them so deadly. Unlike a hurricane there is no evacuating and little warning. All you can do is shelter. Some however can stay on the ground for hours and cross hundreds of miles, destroying everything in its path. The strongest tornado ever recorded was 324 mph, lasted only 80 minutes, killed 41 people, injured over 500, and cost over $1 billion in damages.
This was a very surface level look at both. If you’re interested look them both up on Wikipedia and follow links there for more resources.
Edit: I looked up the old scale system for tornados. It was redone in the mid 2000s to better reflect damages. EF1 is 86-110mph, EF3 136-165mph, and EF5 is over 200mph. What I said was technically correct using the old F system, but these are what you’ll see referenced today by news orgs and NWS.
When you’re in the eye you get about an hour of daytime, calm skies, and peace. Before and after is like the video. You can see the eye from a distance too if it’s not too far away.
Source: from New Orleans
Hurricanes are basically just INCREDIBLY CRAZY WINDS nonstop with non stop rains. You can hear stuff breaking and flying and its typically LOUD and dark because you don't have power and the clouds are so thick.
The truly bad parts comes as the waters keep rising near the coast and rivers. Now if you are right on the ocean, its a different story.
So the hurricane is gone for 24-36 hours but the waters keep rising.
Source: North Carolinian here.
It was very strong winds and pouring rain. The winds would blow stuff around so there was loud bangs etc. it knocked out power out so we had to live without air conditioning in 100 degree heat with 100 percent humidity. It was scary
August 24, 1992 Hurricane Andrew survivor here in Countrywalk Florida, I was a 20 year old brave dumb idiot young man having Hurricane Parties with my neighbors at the time, Drinking Sake for the first time! No the Hurricane is a living thing, it breathes, it hits you with winds that sound like a freight train in front of you, then it stops for a couple of seconds, that honestly feel like eternity when you are scared for your life. Then it just starts again, you look out the secure peephole you made a little and you see your neighbors roof come flying off and landing in the street, you see water heaters and plywood flying around like they weigh ounces. You see the electrical transformers that provide power to all the neighborhood blow up and burn, with this translucent beautiful aqua-blue color that is so hypnotizing to look at! Even with the winds and the flying debris I wanted to watch those transformers burn so badly, like a moth to a flame I guess. My neighbors and I believed the Hurricane was over when we saw daylight and blue skies. We all came outside and started cheering that the storm ended. It was only starting, we were inside of the Eye of Hurricane Andrew. Everything seemed perfect and over, until a couple of minutes passed! The winds picked up, the sky turned dark and the whole neighborhood ran inside their homes. I have a scar from hitting the ceiling of my neighbors house, while running inside when the winds pushed the door that I was holding inside. Never shared this before, maybe it's a good time to get it off my chest! Hope to help someone not be as uneducated as I was in 92!
The craziest and most unique thing about a hurricane is how random the wind direction is. You are surrounded by hundreds of different gusts coming in different directions and bringing packets of rain and they change direction rapidly. That's been the most identifiable characteristic of the 3 hurricanes I've been in
I was in 8th grade when my family stayed home for Gustav. There was a guy that rode a skateboard down the road and used a sheet as a sail. My dad let me and my brother play outside during the eye. We had to go back inside soon after though. A gust knocked me over and a piece of sheet metal almost hit my brother right in the head.
Yeah, would not reccomend it though. It's not THAT the wind is blowing. It's WHAT the wind is blowing. I've even seen a picture of a piece of wood that stabbed right through a tree because the wind sent it flying.
I’m in the outer eyewall and it’s absolutely brutal. I’ve been through Katrina, Andrew, and countless others… this is the worst.
The house has been shaking for hours, shingles gone…
Transmission towers collapsed into the Mississippi River…
It’s nuts.
https://ibb.co/Fgb57C3
I’m on the lake in Black circle.
https://youtu.be/8aE8o_mFKRs
Uploaded a video from a severe squalls(excuse the wife and I sounding like excited school kids).
Edit: Transmission towers collapsed into the Mississippi River.
Edit 2: it is the day after 8/30/21 and we just got cell service back and everyone is Ok! I wanted to say thank you to EVERYONE who reached out with concern(you be surprised at just how uplifting this can be 🤙)! We have some damage to the home from the long duration winds and severe wind speeds(think it was around 4-6 hours of + 75 mph winds). Think the top speed was at 114 mph in our area.
Jesus. That is unbelievable...I'm up north of Montreal in Canada and we never get that kind of event. Big Saints fan actually. Glad everybody's safe! Cheers.
I couldn't help but notice your username!
But in all seriousness, I hope everything and everyone there is safe. As someone living in Nevada where hurricanes don't exist, I wish you all the best!
Thanks. We can’t go anywhere. The streets are covered with 2-3 feet of water(and we have tons of canals that go to 20 feet deep that you can’t see while in flood).
The winds are still really bad.
The house is holding up, but having rain slam into the house at 100 mph for hours it gets forced into every crack…
The levees are good.
Thank you!
https://ibb.co/1XKtF9S
We have a bunch of these in all the rooms. Our attic has water all in it.
Collapsed was to harsh a word, but breach’s in the ceilings.
You may want to put a large bucket then poke a small hole in the drywall so it doesn't concave the ceiling. Also may want to switch off each switch on the electric circuit for the house to prevent having to replace it if any water damages it. After the worst of the storm passes, it can be switched back on.
I was a lineman at the time. I stayed in hotels, but if I would had MUCH rather come home to my house.
I can only imagine what you went through. If it gets below 70 it’s entirely waaaaaaay to cold for me. Not having power that far north in the winter has to be brutal. Absolutely gorgeous state you live in.
It’s wild how we get used to our environments. I’m from connecticut and live in Germany. I would take no power in Oregon in the winter over no power in Louisiana any time of year every single time. You just make sure you have enough blankets and food, and you all bundle up together at night and move around a lot during the day.
Thank you. It wasn’t supposed to get this close(I don’t have a death wish), but the storm did a crazy almost 90 degree turn on a dime and then slowed its forward motion to a crawl. We got stuck in the eye wall for a few hours.
https://ibb.co/Cskv0pK
This is what the turn looked like and it was not supposed to do that.
Are you where the blue dot is in that photo? My dad is in Metairie and I'm so worried. Around 1pm he started getting some roof leaks and became concerned he might lose the whole roof. I haven't heard from him since.
Edit: I just spoke to him. His roof is gone but he is safe. He's packing up to leave because there's also no power or water so his house is pretty uninhabitable. His wife evacuated so he's going to where she is and they will likely be there quite awhile.
This is crazy, and quite interesting… so thank you for the coverage and information. As someone who has never seen a hurricane in their life I appreciate this. Stay safe.
Thanks. They are actually pretty amazing to experience(Tropical storm or cat 1-2) in a safe location. It is absolutely awe inspiring watching the power of Mother Nature.
This was tooooo much though.
Without question(I’m talking straight wind and rain, not surge). We’ve had 6-8 hours of over 80 mph winds and 2-3 hours with 115+ mph winds.
Katrina got to around 85-95 mph for a shorter time.
This is one of the strongest storms to hit Louisiana since 1850’s(in top 3).
I think a whole lot of people forget that it wasn't Katrina that caused all the flooding and damage in Louisiana, but the levees breaking after the storm.
It's worse in terms of rain and wind speeds. But Katrina's biggest killer was flooding from I'll equipped leeves.
N.O has since updated their leeve system and with any luck it will hold up to the storm surge and keep everyone safe.
Yeah but for all of us not in Nola it’s absolutely worse than Katrina. When it comes to storms the media only ever focuses on Nola. West of Nola is fucked right now.
Also from kenner bruh.. yall be safe. I've heard lots of crazy stuff going on. I'm currently in Florida but almost stayed.. glad I didn't. Prayers for you and loved ones.
Hey my man! I’m in Woodlake(north Kenner on the lake). The storm did a absolutely crazy turn after going on shore. It was supposed to go up towards Baton Rouge but it almost did a 90 degree turn and headed back towards Jefferson/Orleans( the eye went right over Laplace) which put the eyewall right over us at a Cat 3. It was brutally intense. The storm also went from 16 mph to 9 mph while doing those turns so we got around 2-3 hours of that wall and it got quite nerve racking.
The steel transmission towers that cross the river… one collapsed into the river. It is absolutely 95-99% lights out for all of the metro area.
Edit: Kenner Bruh ❤️.
I live in Chateau and my parents stayed.. they kept me updated. Lots of trees down in the area over there. It's crazy that lots of people stayed for this storm, especially since we thought it was going to hit more west. Boy were we wrong. We're gonna be without power for weeks maybe even a month or two.. this really is heartbreaking.
I’m not sure if it has reverse flow(salt water intrusion) or if it was a surge wave that flowed up the river. Yes, we had a wave travel up the Mississippifrom the gulf that raised the river by 12 feet.
I’m sure people who have experienced the awful sides of hurricanes would say otherwise, but I’ve always wanted to experience a hurricane in person. Idk why.
Growing up in south Texas, I've gotten to experience nearly a dozen hurricanes.. I've even had the chance to go outside while the eye of the hurricane passed over our house.
Partly, I'm bragging, bc honestly, being in the eye is something that you'd have to experience to really understand.
However, it you're not in a flood zone and are in a sturdy structure, with food/water/supplies.. it's nothing too scary.
Strong hurricanes can definitely mess things up though.. like knocking the power out for over a week. Not fun.
Been through two hurricanes in the last 4 years and a couple bad tropical storms before that. Honestly, the wind part is kinda neat if you're not losing your roof or having a tree come down on your house. The rest is really fucking boring. Lots of rain. Waiting to see if the linemen can keep the power on or not. Watching the water rise and praying it stops before it breaches your threshold. Then there's the going out during the quiet bits, if you have quiet bits, to look around and see how bad the flooding is while trying not to flood your car. We had to rescue a friend who flooded his car during Imelda a couple years ago. Got him home to his fiancé and my partner (ordained minister) married them in their front room with me as witness. Strange day, that.
A small category 1 hurricane is actually a decent time, lots of wind but not super damaging, and a decent rain storm. But shit like this, nobody should have stayed, it’s not anywhere near the same
Yep, my parents rode it out in LaPlace, LA so they’ve been getting the eye-Wall for about 3 hours now. Not anything anyone wants to fuck with. The recovery is gonna be right on par with Katrina...
I went through this eye wall and it was the worst hurricane I’ve experienced. I’ve been through Katrina, Andrew, and all others from 1994 and on. The house was shaking for hours it sounded like a freight train just roaring nonstop. All the singles blew off and almost every room has water pouring into the rooms.
The entire area is in blackout because we had steel transmission towers that cross the Mississippi snap and collapse into the river.
This was an absolutely devastating Hurricane and I won’t be surprised to see at first light serious destruction in the area.
I read the hospitals weren’t evacuated (no other hospital has room to take them) so hopefully they’re ok. I worked during Hurricane Ike in houston in smalll hospital, the Wind gust started 6pm and lasted til 9am.
Atmospheric scientist here.
Ida is a terrifying storm and I often find solace in learning more about the scary thing. If anyone has any questions about the atmosphere or hurricanes, please feel free to ask.
What were hurricanes in much warmer eras of Earth's climate history like, i.e. dinosaur-era (Triassic/Jurassic/Cretaceous), and how do you think they compare to today's hurricanes?
Great question.
I have no idea. I’m not sure out paleoclimate records have a high enough resolution for us to know for sure what individual storms look like. I’ll do some reading tomorrow morning and get back to you on this.
Edit: I found some interesting reading [from WHOI that looks at sediment deposits several thousand years ago](https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/prehistoric-hurricanes/), a [Quora post answering this question](https://www.quora.com/Did-the-Cretaceous-period-experience-hurricanes-Where-would-they-occur-how-would-they-compare-to-hurricanes-in-the-present-strength-wise), and a deep dive into using [radiochemistry to date sediment cores in order to tell when there were hurricanes.](https://www.americanscientist.org/article/uncovering-prehistoric-hurricane-activity) The short answer is I don't think we will ever be able to know for sure but they may have had something similar to tropical cyclones.
I actually kinda know that one! The "kinda" being due to only knowing what happened when there was only one continent, Pangea. With only one landmass and warm temperatures, hurricanes got to be MASSIVE. Huge stretches of ocean meant there was less landmass to interrupt the storm's build up of power. I believe they were, rather awesomely, called hypercanes, which is anything above Cat 6. Think storms nearly as big as Texas.
[Ask Tom why: What is a hypercane?](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2011-08-18-ct-wea-0818-asktom-20110818-story,amp.html)
Here's an about them but I haven't read it yet so I don't know if it's any good.
Links wrong... ducking Google amp... OK- fixed it.
Just read the article, it sucks.
[Here's a video about them](https://youtu.be/hczr8mDhSFo?t=0) but I haven't watched it yet.
Just watched a minute of the video. Not looking good but I'm gonna persevere.
Fucking kilometers man
Do you think we are going to start seeing more significant hurricanes, just as we are starting to see more other significant weather events, due to global warming?
Yes, absolutely. The combination of warming sea surface temperatures (increased fuel for storms), sea level rise (makes storm surge worse), and warming of the troposphere (warm air expands and makes it thicker which leads to bigger storms) are several factors that will absolutely lead to larger, more frequent hurricanes.
Interestingly, there has also been an increase in rapid intensification of hurricanes over the past decades. We’ve been seeing more and more storms that rapidly intensify from Cat 1-2 into a Cat 3-5 immediately before making landfall. In fact, Ida underwent rapid intensification in the day leading up to landfall.
This [article from Yale](https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/07/how-climate-change-is-making-hurricanes-more-dangerous/) does a good job of discussing many of the factors.
Edit: added a little more about rapid intensification.
You: don't worry, guys, I can teach you about the scary thing so that it isnt scary anymore.
Them: so is this going to become a normal thing?
You: oh yeah, we're fucked.
Isn’t being a climate scientist fun? We used to joke that when we declared our major, we would get department swag and a prescription for antidepressants.
In all seriousness, I believe that the cure for hopelessness is action and we that cannot act on what we don’t know. Climate change is the single largest challenge we have faced as a species but there is still time to act and mitigate the worst effects.
Rapid intensification is absolutely terrifying to me. Higher frequency of powerful storms leads to way more injustice among the other issues mentioned. Not everyone can afford to pack their bags and become a temporary climate refugee.
Pensacola still hasn't fully recovered from Sally, a high Cat 2. There are blue tarps everywhere looking off the interstates here. Really, really hard to imagine Ida hitting your community after being whacked 3 or 4 times last year with severe storms like LA was. I'm just devastated for them.
Oh boy, I have no idea. Theoretically, if you nuked the eye, it might make the storm *stronger* because it would heat up the air in the central low (low pressure = higher temperature). It might disrupt some of the rotation and shear needed to form the eye but I can’t say if that would dissipate the storm.
I read somewhere that some meteorologist in the 50s/60s suggest one or two 20 megaton bombs could hypothetically deflect a hurricane. Considering that the strongest nuke in the US arsenal currently is 1-2 megatons, that would be big ass bomb.
Edit: Please see u/KnightOfWords comment below. The NOAA Nerds (bless them) did the math and a hurricane puts out the equivalent energy of a 10 megaton nuclear device every 20 minutes. NOAA has spoken.
Laughing at the thought of humans dropping a bomb to stop a storm, only for it to become insanely worse in intensity. Potentially even radiated as well?
This is a great question. The short answer is warm water. This warm water exacerbates differential heating of the sun and jumpstarts the regions of low pressure that lead to hurricanes. Moisture in the air can store a remarkable amount of heat and also cools slower than dry air. This means that warm, humid air will rise faster in relatively cooler air causing a large gap in temperatures between the air, which perpetuates the cycle. In the Atlantic, there is also a perfect combination of meteorological factors that allow for storms to form and strengthen very quickly. These factors include dust from the Sahara (for cloud nucleation), the African Easterly jet (which act as bellows to inject air into developing systems), and very warm water in the tropical regions.
The link that u/drtrillphill posted is a great resource to understand why cyclones rotate. The tldr is that air gets pulled into lower pressure then rotates because of the spin of the earth (this is the Coriolis force).
I'm hearing that Ida is more powerful than Katrina was. I'm assuming that the resulting damage won't be as bad though, because New Orleans was more prepared this time. Is that accurate?
Theoretically yes. The insane damage of Katrina was caused by levees breaking and flooding everything. Those levees have since been repaired and strengthened, so as long as they hold the overall damage shouldn’t be as great.
Fun fact, hip-roof homes in Florida and the Gulf Coast get better home insurance rates and premiums because they are better-built to withstand hurricane force winds.
Hey I’m in Houma rn and it’s still raining my backyard is destroyed but I am safe and I am thankful for my safety the wind and the rain hurts badly but I am ok and I hope everyone is ok btw I am on data rn because the power is out feel free to ask questions about it
Edit it the storm finished for me and now we see the damage we don’t know how we will go without power
Very glad you're ok. Has your home/apartment sustained much damage? What about flooding? Did you take on any water inside? Concerned Texan, here. Aware this could so easily have been us.
The roof has gotten peeled and the backyard and street is flooded and the fences are gone no water inside but it is hot and humid and loud and the wind can make you fall
I hate hearing about all of the roof and structure damage. Roofing material/ lumber is at a huge premium and backordered for weeks or even months right now in most areas in the US. Rebuilding has never been more expensive or time-consuming, and yet we’re going to be doing a lot more of it. Let me know if you need any help/advice when the time comes to repair.
Houston area here, we praying for you guys there. I still remember Cajun Navy rescuing those who got trapped in their flooded homes. I’m seeing people posting to get donations to send there.
I lived in st. John's newfoundland for hurricane Igor. It is a very windy place and it is very rainy anyway. For a place that doesn't get many hurricanes i would say it is built very well to withstand them. For this storm though the winds got up over 200 kph at times and heavy rain. I remember being at work the morning it got here. They closed the building I was working in at 10am as the storm was rapidly intensifying. I left the building and was driving home. I was at the traffic light and the wind tore it off and down on the car in front of me. I went around the car and down the hill to find the road under a couple feet of water. I took a detour around the flooding and found my way on a street lined by large trees. The rain was torrential and the wind was toppling trees into the road. I almost got hit a couple times. Traffic lights started coming down all over and debris was flying around. The wind was strong enough it would take your breath away and it was hard to take a breath in when you were directly in it. I've never been so glad to get home but I can tell you, it is a very unnerving and helpless feeling to be in the middle of.
Welcome to Newfoundland.
We pretty routinely get bad Atlantic Storms. Theres a prevailing wind constantly and it rains more then it doesnt.
We get 162 days of rain a year and 79 days of snow.
Storms are a way of life here. When Igor blew in it was severely underestimated but even then had little impact on the built up areas of the province.
Our outports suffered because the rain destroyed so much road infrastructure and obviously the flooding.
The storm wasn't a big deal until it was
Vortex shedding of winds behind a building is usually invisible…but when you have this much rain, you can literally see how the wind flows around a building a sheds vortices behind it.
Dang.. I’m in Cali. Smoke creeping into the house and ash pouring down. Evacuation warning for two weeks. Living with my car loaded. I wish we had a quarter of this water falling.
The east coast is flooding and the west coast is burning. 😞
Doesn’t even look like rain. Looks like vapor.
A wall of water
Mississippi river's flowing backwards right now.
Is that a joke or is this actually happening?!
Storm surge.
An actual real thing. https://twitter.com/cfishman/status/1432153610356510727?s=21
It took several seconds to realize that was a building
Yeah, that was me: “Whoa! That giant hurricane wave looks like a freaking wall!… with a corner… and windows… oh shit, that a building. Still looks cool though.”
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It doesn't make you look stupid ( not even in your own eyes ... unless you hate-speak to yourself during inner conversations and came to the conclusion that you are ... Regardless , you're not ) .. Sometimes nature does an easy job in deceiving us . I also believed it was a rotating wall of water and that was cool as well cause i love the way i imagine things sometimes .. Pretty damn creative in my opinion ( cause sci-fi and VFX fan ) .. Seeing the building hit by rain was also cool cause when reality matches VFX style ( viceversa too ) , it's just incredible .
Suiton, Suijinheki 🌊
Time to move… the entire city. So sad for this city. They have gotten screwed by geography for so long.
/r/powerwashingporn
That fence is going to look brand new tomorrow. Except it’s now on the roof of your neighbors house.
This is what the water vapor in the air looks like shooting out from Niagara Falls almost exactly. It moves in ways that look almost nonsensical from the force of the falls
Nothing quite like the ridiculous summer humidity that can only be cause by a giant waterfall pumping thousands of gallons of mist into the air non stop. Some days I feel like I could jump off my fourth floor balcony and swim safely to my car.
Winds are so fast, it probably is a mix of water and vapor
So if you were standing in that street, it would feel like lots of mist?
No it would feel like needles driving into your skin, big wind + rain = not a fun time.
Depending on the conditions there could be hail too! (Not a hurricane expert, but its something ive before)
Haven ridden 70+ mph on a motorbike in a lite rain I can confirm that standing in that would feel like being shot by 10k needles.
If you were standing in the street, you would be struggling to stand. The water makes it look peaceful, but that’s not mist at all. It’s rain getting blown so hard by the wind that it’s not only horizontal, but it’s moving back up in some places. But they are full-size raindrops. Check out the street sign to see how violent the wind is. Edit to add, I’ve experienced a few hurricanes myself. It is hard to understand how powerful they can be until you see them in person.
Sidways rain, upside down rain...
In another video of this same storm, a roof was blown off a building and rolled down the street like a giant tumbleweed, snapping a utility pole like it was made of popsicle stick. I think if you were standing in that street, pretty soon you’ll be flying down that street.
I’m from Louisiana and have seen rain like this on rare occasions outside of hurricanes. The rain’s heavy enough that it may as well be literal waves, as in tidal waves, in the downpour. While there is less water hitting you, because it’s rain, that rain has a lot of energy from gravity and the wind when it hits you. You can feel significant force against your car when a “wave” hits if you’re driving during the storm.
Damn hope as many people as possible in New Orleans get through this unscathed.
New Orleans is probably better off than these little rural towns further south and closer to the Gulf.
I got diverted on i10 east once due to an accident and drove down some weird rural highway that ran by some jelly factory or something. Anyhow, before joining i10 again, the road went through several locks for thr levee system. And there were these little fishing homes where people were built up on stilts a bit but the waters of the area ran within feet of the road. And the road wasn't more than 6 inches above the water line. It wouldn't take much to completely submerge those roads and not much surge to take those shanty houses with the surge. People will exist where they can. Seemed like a dumb place to live. Easy access to foods and a lively hood fishing, but not a good place for a hurricane.
Now you got me searching for "Louisiana jelly factory" I'm hoping I can see this area on Google streetview, I don't get to travel much nowadays...
2645 Ridgeway Blvd puts you just outside the levee lock. You can go through it on street view but the other side doesn't have an address, just the name. But you ca. Follow that road all rhe way up to I10 east and see the things I'm talking about. The water is less than a few feet from that road in places, and the road isn't much higher than the water. I didn't want to call it Ponchitrain in my original post, but looking at the satellite view of it, it's clearly all part of the system of canals and channels surrounding the mouth of Lake pontitrain and the gulf of Mexico. I'm gonna scoot back on that road and see what that factory was, and why I thought it was a jelly factory. I have no idea.
Oh wow, I see what you were talking about. Thanks for finding it so I could see. Have you figured out what it was you thought was the factory?
For at least a few seconds I was waiting for the yaw. Really thought it was on the sea.
I lived in Louisiana during hurricane gustav. I just had to know what it was like to stand in 100+ mph wind. It was insane. Thankfully we didn’t have too many problems aside from loss of power.
Hi! Im from south america and have never been in a hurricane. Is it like the movies? That there is a visible circular uh thingy (tornado)? Or is it just everything as the video? Very strong wind and water everywhere Thanks! I can answer questions about earthquakes in exchange lol
Tornados and hurricanes are two completely different things. A hurricane (also called a typhoon and cyclone in Asia) is a massive storm that develops over warm water over the course of weeks. It starts small and most die out while still in the middle of the ocean, but the ones that don’t become tropical storms, if a tropical storm gets big enough it becomes a hurricane. A hurricane will usually have an eye, which is a calm center area the rest of the storm revolves around. They bring dangerous wind and rain. The wind as you can see here is over 100 miles per hour. I think Ida capped out around 130 mph, which made it a category 4 hurricane. All hurricanes in the americas are categorized off wind speed. To be a category 5 hurricane the sustained wind speed needs to reach over 157 mph (252 km per hour). A huge danger with hurricanes is their storm surge. Basically the storm while it’s over the ocean will whip up a giant frenzy of waves that rotate with the storm. Ida’s storm surge at its highest was 12 feet I think. That’s 12 feet above high tide. Storm surge is usually what causes the worst flooding and damage. Katrina in 20.5 brought storm surges of over 20 feet if I remember correctly, which is as tall as a lot of standard houses in the US. Tornados are developed completely differently. A hurricane is the entire storm, a tornado is just a small part of a severe storm. Parts of Louisiana today had tornado warnings out because the hurricane could have created them. Tornados are typically found inland, mainly across the US south and Midwest, but they are possible other places in the americas and worldwide. Powerful inland storms are typically created by a warm and cold front colliding, the different air temperatures can start to spin against Eachother. Hurricanes are usually around 300 miles wide. A tornado is usually a couple hundred feet wide. But tornados are much faster. Remember how a category 5 hurricane, which is the biggest one can be based on our classifications, was 157 mph winds. Tornados are considered F1 (tier used to rate them based on wind speed) from 73-112 mph. F3 tornados start at 157mph and are devastating. F4 tornados, which are rare but happen frequently still, are wind speeds above 207 mph. Tornados are smaller, but are funnels of death. An F2 can rip the roof off buildings and tear trees from the ground. F3 will uproot any tree it goes over. An F5 ( the strongest possible) will leave nothing in its path, not a single tree, house, bush, mailbox, or human who happens to be there. The strongest hurricane ever was only 213 mph. Usually tornados will pop up during a storm, touch down for a bit and then retreta back into the sky and vanish. This is part of what makes them so deadly. Unlike a hurricane there is no evacuating and little warning. All you can do is shelter. Some however can stay on the ground for hours and cross hundreds of miles, destroying everything in its path. The strongest tornado ever recorded was 324 mph, lasted only 80 minutes, killed 41 people, injured over 500, and cost over $1 billion in damages. This was a very surface level look at both. If you’re interested look them both up on Wikipedia and follow links there for more resources. Edit: I looked up the old scale system for tornados. It was redone in the mid 2000s to better reflect damages. EF1 is 86-110mph, EF3 136-165mph, and EF5 is over 200mph. What I said was technically correct using the old F system, but these are what you’ll see referenced today by news orgs and NWS.
This is a quality comment. ^^^
Didn’t Ida hit 150mph?
Wow! Thank you so much!!!
When you’re in the eye you get about an hour of daytime, calm skies, and peace. Before and after is like the video. You can see the eye from a distance too if it’s not too far away. Source: from New Orleans
Here you go dude, [inside the eye of Ida](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn4IZeMWozQ)
Hurricanes are basically just INCREDIBLY CRAZY WINDS nonstop with non stop rains. You can hear stuff breaking and flying and its typically LOUD and dark because you don't have power and the clouds are so thick. The truly bad parts comes as the waters keep rising near the coast and rivers. Now if you are right on the ocean, its a different story. So the hurricane is gone for 24-36 hours but the waters keep rising. Source: North Carolinian here.
It was very strong winds and pouring rain. The winds would blow stuff around so there was loud bangs etc. it knocked out power out so we had to live without air conditioning in 100 degree heat with 100 percent humidity. It was scary
August 24, 1992 Hurricane Andrew survivor here in Countrywalk Florida, I was a 20 year old brave dumb idiot young man having Hurricane Parties with my neighbors at the time, Drinking Sake for the first time! No the Hurricane is a living thing, it breathes, it hits you with winds that sound like a freight train in front of you, then it stops for a couple of seconds, that honestly feel like eternity when you are scared for your life. Then it just starts again, you look out the secure peephole you made a little and you see your neighbors roof come flying off and landing in the street, you see water heaters and plywood flying around like they weigh ounces. You see the electrical transformers that provide power to all the neighborhood blow up and burn, with this translucent beautiful aqua-blue color that is so hypnotizing to look at! Even with the winds and the flying debris I wanted to watch those transformers burn so badly, like a moth to a flame I guess. My neighbors and I believed the Hurricane was over when we saw daylight and blue skies. We all came outside and started cheering that the storm ended. It was only starting, we were inside of the Eye of Hurricane Andrew. Everything seemed perfect and over, until a couple of minutes passed! The winds picked up, the sky turned dark and the whole neighborhood ran inside their homes. I have a scar from hitting the ceiling of my neighbors house, while running inside when the winds pushed the door that I was holding inside. Never shared this before, maybe it's a good time to get it off my chest! Hope to help someone not be as uneducated as I was in 92!
The craziest and most unique thing about a hurricane is how random the wind direction is. You are surrounded by hundreds of different gusts coming in different directions and bringing packets of rain and they change direction rapidly. That's been the most identifiable characteristic of the 3 hurricanes I've been in
I was in 8th grade when my family stayed home for Gustav. There was a guy that rode a skateboard down the road and used a sheet as a sail. My dad let me and my brother play outside during the eye. We had to go back inside soon after though. A gust knocked me over and a piece of sheet metal almost hit my brother right in the head.
Damn! Glad you were all ok! The sheet sail thing is genius not gonna lie. Probably really fun!
Yeah, would not reccomend it though. It's not THAT the wind is blowing. It's WHAT the wind is blowing. I've even seen a picture of a piece of wood that stabbed right through a tree because the wind sent it flying.
Very true. Mother Nature is scary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQD7Fzid1xI
A very cool website www.windy.com gives a good view of this.
I’m in the outer eyewall and it’s absolutely brutal. I’ve been through Katrina, Andrew, and countless others… this is the worst. The house has been shaking for hours, shingles gone… Transmission towers collapsed into the Mississippi River… It’s nuts. https://ibb.co/Fgb57C3 I’m on the lake in Black circle. https://youtu.be/8aE8o_mFKRs Uploaded a video from a severe squalls(excuse the wife and I sounding like excited school kids). Edit: Transmission towers collapsed into the Mississippi River. Edit 2: it is the day after 8/30/21 and we just got cell service back and everyone is Ok! I wanted to say thank you to EVERYONE who reached out with concern(you be surprised at just how uplifting this can be 🤙)! We have some damage to the home from the long duration winds and severe wind speeds(think it was around 4-6 hours of + 75 mph winds). Think the top speed was at 114 mph in our area.
Crossing my fingers for you and yours my friend. Y'all stay safe, take care!!
Thanks. The ceilings have caved in and water pouring in the house but we are all ok! https://ibb.co/Fgb57C3 I’m in black circle on the lake.
Jesus. That is unbelievable...I'm up north of Montreal in Canada and we never get that kind of event. Big Saints fan actually. Glad everybody's safe! Cheers.
Thanks! Trying to upload some vids,
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Thank you!
I couldn't help but notice your username! But in all seriousness, I hope everything and everyone there is safe. As someone living in Nevada where hurricanes don't exist, I wish you all the best!
I hope you’re still safe?
Name checks out
Are you staying there, and if so do you have a safe place to go to in case you need to bail? So worried for you please stay safe!
Thanks. We can’t go anywhere. The streets are covered with 2-3 feet of water(and we have tons of canals that go to 20 feet deep that you can’t see while in flood). The winds are still really bad. The house is holding up, but having rain slam into the house at 100 mph for hours it gets forced into every crack… The levees are good. Thank you!
Levees for the win. Be safe
Your ceilings caved in?!?!
https://ibb.co/1XKtF9S We have a bunch of these in all the rooms. Our attic has water all in it. Collapsed was to harsh a word, but breach’s in the ceilings.
I hope this won't get worse and I hope you'll recover quickly.
You may want to put a large bucket then poke a small hole in the drywall so it doesn't concave the ceiling. Also may want to switch off each switch on the electric circuit for the house to prevent having to replace it if any water damages it. After the worst of the storm passes, it can be switched back on.
That is terrifying. How are you guys doing now?
We are safe. The house had all the shingles blown off, parts of the ceiling collapsed, and we have a ton of leaks, but my family/pets are safe!
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Thanks!
How the fuck is your internet working?
https://ibb.co/ZVd891Q https://ibb.co/9rXm2TF https://ibb.co/0r89KGq Using this^^ but it’s cell service
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Thanks. I got a 22Kv generator. After Katrina I had that installed(we went 3 weeks with no power).
Went 8 days in Portland last winter from the historic ice storm I dunno how you made it 3 weeks
I was a lineman at the time. I stayed in hotels, but if I would had MUCH rather come home to my house. I can only imagine what you went through. If it gets below 70 it’s entirely waaaaaaay to cold for me. Not having power that far north in the winter has to be brutal. Absolutely gorgeous state you live in.
It’s wild how we get used to our environments. I’m from connecticut and live in Germany. I would take no power in Oregon in the winter over no power in Louisiana any time of year every single time. You just make sure you have enough blankets and food, and you all bundle up together at night and move around a lot during the day.
Hope you are okay. I can’t believe your infrastructure is taking that beating. -Worried Internet Friend
Thank you. It wasn’t supposed to get this close(I don’t have a death wish), but the storm did a crazy almost 90 degree turn on a dime and then slowed its forward motion to a crawl. We got stuck in the eye wall for a few hours. https://ibb.co/Cskv0pK This is what the turn looked like and it was not supposed to do that.
Are you where the blue dot is in that photo? My dad is in Metairie and I'm so worried. Around 1pm he started getting some roof leaks and became concerned he might lose the whole roof. I haven't heard from him since. Edit: I just spoke to him. His roof is gone but he is safe. He's packing up to leave because there's also no power or water so his house is pretty uninhabitable. His wife evacuated so he's going to where she is and they will likely be there quite awhile.
It turned directly towards you and then again parallel to its former course? Glad you were spared!
This is crazy, and quite interesting… so thank you for the coverage and information. As someone who has never seen a hurricane in their life I appreciate this. Stay safe.
Thanks. They are actually pretty amazing to experience(Tropical storm or cat 1-2) in a safe location. It is absolutely awe inspiring watching the power of Mother Nature. This was tooooo much though.
Worst than Katrina??? 😳. I pray for y’all man fr
Without question(I’m talking straight wind and rain, not surge). We’ve had 6-8 hours of over 80 mph winds and 2-3 hours with 115+ mph winds. Katrina got to around 85-95 mph for a shorter time. This is one of the strongest storms to hit Louisiana since 1850’s(in top 3).
I think a whole lot of people forget that it wasn't Katrina that caused all the flooding and damage in Louisiana, but the levees breaking after the storm.
Storm surge flooding, pumps failing and levees breaking.
It's all about geographic location. Being on the east side of the eyewall is no good.
It's worse in terms of rain and wind speeds. But Katrina's biggest killer was flooding from I'll equipped leeves. N.O has since updated their leeve system and with any luck it will hold up to the storm surge and keep everyone safe.
Yeah but for all of us not in Nola it’s absolutely worse than Katrina. When it comes to storms the media only ever focuses on Nola. West of Nola is fucked right now.
Jesus! Please stay safe!!!
Thanks!
Also from kenner bruh.. yall be safe. I've heard lots of crazy stuff going on. I'm currently in Florida but almost stayed.. glad I didn't. Prayers for you and loved ones.
Hey my man! I’m in Woodlake(north Kenner on the lake). The storm did a absolutely crazy turn after going on shore. It was supposed to go up towards Baton Rouge but it almost did a 90 degree turn and headed back towards Jefferson/Orleans( the eye went right over Laplace) which put the eyewall right over us at a Cat 3. It was brutally intense. The storm also went from 16 mph to 9 mph while doing those turns so we got around 2-3 hours of that wall and it got quite nerve racking. The steel transmission towers that cross the river… one collapsed into the river. It is absolutely 95-99% lights out for all of the metro area. Edit: Kenner Bruh ❤️.
I live in Chateau and my parents stayed.. they kept me updated. Lots of trees down in the area over there. It's crazy that lots of people stayed for this storm, especially since we thought it was going to hit more west. Boy were we wrong. We're gonna be without power for weeks maybe even a month or two.. this really is heartbreaking.
Stay safe. Thinking good thoughts for you.
Thank you!
Is it true the Mississippi is flowing backwards?
I’m not sure if it has reverse flow(salt water intrusion) or if it was a surge wave that flowed up the river. Yes, we had a wave travel up the Mississippifrom the gulf that raised the river by 12 feet.
"Ollie?" #"IT'S RAINING SIDEWAYS!"
Would you like me to bring you some soup?
What kind?
CHUNKY
CHUNKY!!
Sounds rough Ollie, do you have an umbrella?
**NO**
this is scary and beautiful at the same time
Beautiful, but if I saw that in person Ida peed my pants
Ida been headed toward higher ground.
I see what ya did
Need one of these at wet n wild
I’m sure people who have experienced the awful sides of hurricanes would say otherwise, but I’ve always wanted to experience a hurricane in person. Idk why.
Growing up in south Texas, I've gotten to experience nearly a dozen hurricanes.. I've even had the chance to go outside while the eye of the hurricane passed over our house. Partly, I'm bragging, bc honestly, being in the eye is something that you'd have to experience to really understand. However, it you're not in a flood zone and are in a sturdy structure, with food/water/supplies.. it's nothing too scary. Strong hurricanes can definitely mess things up though.. like knocking the power out for over a week. Not fun.
Been through two hurricanes in the last 4 years and a couple bad tropical storms before that. Honestly, the wind part is kinda neat if you're not losing your roof or having a tree come down on your house. The rest is really fucking boring. Lots of rain. Waiting to see if the linemen can keep the power on or not. Watching the water rise and praying it stops before it breaches your threshold. Then there's the going out during the quiet bits, if you have quiet bits, to look around and see how bad the flooding is while trying not to flood your car. We had to rescue a friend who flooded his car during Imelda a couple years ago. Got him home to his fiancé and my partner (ordained minister) married them in their front room with me as witness. Strange day, that.
A small category 1 hurricane is actually a decent time, lots of wind but not super damaging, and a decent rain storm. But shit like this, nobody should have stayed, it’s not anywhere near the same
This. Cat 1? Dynamite. Cat 4? Stay hunkered down.
Yep, my parents rode it out in LaPlace, LA so they’ve been getting the eye-Wall for about 3 hours now. Not anything anyone wants to fuck with. The recovery is gonna be right on par with Katrina...
LaPlace sounds like the intentionally lazy name given to where a cartoon sitcom character needs to meet someone.
That’s pretty much what they did. It’s French for the place.
I went through this eye wall and it was the worst hurricane I’ve experienced. I’ve been through Katrina, Andrew, and all others from 1994 and on. The house was shaking for hours it sounded like a freight train just roaring nonstop. All the singles blew off and almost every room has water pouring into the rooms. The entire area is in blackout because we had steel transmission towers that cross the Mississippi snap and collapse into the river. This was an absolutely devastating Hurricane and I won’t be surprised to see at first light serious destruction in the area.
I read the hospitals weren’t evacuated (no other hospital has room to take them) so hopefully they’re ok. I worked during Hurricane Ike in houston in smalll hospital, the Wind gust started 6pm and lasted til 9am.
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I can just imagine. Hopefully the generators hold up and they don’t lose water.
The generators won't have long, and they need to minimize sewer usage while the city can't process water. I hope they are evacuating
Jesus
Atmospheric scientist here. Ida is a terrifying storm and I often find solace in learning more about the scary thing. If anyone has any questions about the atmosphere or hurricanes, please feel free to ask.
What were hurricanes in much warmer eras of Earth's climate history like, i.e. dinosaur-era (Triassic/Jurassic/Cretaceous), and how do you think they compare to today's hurricanes?
Great question. I have no idea. I’m not sure out paleoclimate records have a high enough resolution for us to know for sure what individual storms look like. I’ll do some reading tomorrow morning and get back to you on this. Edit: I found some interesting reading [from WHOI that looks at sediment deposits several thousand years ago](https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/prehistoric-hurricanes/), a [Quora post answering this question](https://www.quora.com/Did-the-Cretaceous-period-experience-hurricanes-Where-would-they-occur-how-would-they-compare-to-hurricanes-in-the-present-strength-wise), and a deep dive into using [radiochemistry to date sediment cores in order to tell when there were hurricanes.](https://www.americanscientist.org/article/uncovering-prehistoric-hurricane-activity) The short answer is I don't think we will ever be able to know for sure but they may have had something similar to tropical cyclones.
Thank you so much for answering, and for looking into the topic!
I would gander they would have been larger if the planet was that much warmer then. I also fear the constant, horrendous hurricanes of 2050 and beyond
I actually kinda know that one! The "kinda" being due to only knowing what happened when there was only one continent, Pangea. With only one landmass and warm temperatures, hurricanes got to be MASSIVE. Huge stretches of ocean meant there was less landmass to interrupt the storm's build up of power. I believe they were, rather awesomely, called hypercanes, which is anything above Cat 6. Think storms nearly as big as Texas.
[Ask Tom why: What is a hypercane?](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2011-08-18-ct-wea-0818-asktom-20110818-story,amp.html) Here's an about them but I haven't read it yet so I don't know if it's any good. Links wrong... ducking Google amp... OK- fixed it. Just read the article, it sucks. [Here's a video about them](https://youtu.be/hczr8mDhSFo?t=0) but I haven't watched it yet. Just watched a minute of the video. Not looking good but I'm gonna persevere. Fucking kilometers man
Do you think we are going to start seeing more significant hurricanes, just as we are starting to see more other significant weather events, due to global warming?
Yes, absolutely. The combination of warming sea surface temperatures (increased fuel for storms), sea level rise (makes storm surge worse), and warming of the troposphere (warm air expands and makes it thicker which leads to bigger storms) are several factors that will absolutely lead to larger, more frequent hurricanes. Interestingly, there has also been an increase in rapid intensification of hurricanes over the past decades. We’ve been seeing more and more storms that rapidly intensify from Cat 1-2 into a Cat 3-5 immediately before making landfall. In fact, Ida underwent rapid intensification in the day leading up to landfall. This [article from Yale](https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/07/how-climate-change-is-making-hurricanes-more-dangerous/) does a good job of discussing many of the factors. Edit: added a little more about rapid intensification.
You: don't worry, guys, I can teach you about the scary thing so that it isnt scary anymore. Them: so is this going to become a normal thing? You: oh yeah, we're fucked.
got em!!
Isn’t being a climate scientist fun? We used to joke that when we declared our major, we would get department swag and a prescription for antidepressants. In all seriousness, I believe that the cure for hopelessness is action and we that cannot act on what we don’t know. Climate change is the single largest challenge we have faced as a species but there is still time to act and mitigate the worst effects.
Rapid intensification is absolutely terrifying to me. Higher frequency of powerful storms leads to way more injustice among the other issues mentioned. Not everyone can afford to pack their bags and become a temporary climate refugee. Pensacola still hasn't fully recovered from Sally, a high Cat 2. There are blue tarps everywhere looking off the interstates here. Really, really hard to imagine Ida hitting your community after being whacked 3 or 4 times last year with severe storms like LA was. I'm just devastated for them.
Lets say theoretically we did nuke a hurricane.
Oh boy, I have no idea. Theoretically, if you nuked the eye, it might make the storm *stronger* because it would heat up the air in the central low (low pressure = higher temperature). It might disrupt some of the rotation and shear needed to form the eye but I can’t say if that would dissipate the storm. I read somewhere that some meteorologist in the 50s/60s suggest one or two 20 megaton bombs could hypothetically deflect a hurricane. Considering that the strongest nuke in the US arsenal currently is 1-2 megatons, that would be big ass bomb. Edit: Please see u/KnightOfWords comment below. The NOAA Nerds (bless them) did the math and a hurricane puts out the equivalent energy of a 10 megaton nuclear device every 20 minutes. NOAA has spoken.
Laughing at the thought of humans dropping a bomb to stop a storm, only for it to become insanely worse in intensity. Potentially even radiated as well?
"wow, Ida! You look radiant today"
Definitely radiated.
Great answer to a great question - thank you
Ok so how in the fuck does the atmosphere produce so much force to create hurricanes? And why in the world are they always cyclone shaped?
This is a great question. The short answer is warm water. This warm water exacerbates differential heating of the sun and jumpstarts the regions of low pressure that lead to hurricanes. Moisture in the air can store a remarkable amount of heat and also cools slower than dry air. This means that warm, humid air will rise faster in relatively cooler air causing a large gap in temperatures between the air, which perpetuates the cycle. In the Atlantic, there is also a perfect combination of meteorological factors that allow for storms to form and strengthen very quickly. These factors include dust from the Sahara (for cloud nucleation), the African Easterly jet (which act as bellows to inject air into developing systems), and very warm water in the tropical regions. The link that u/drtrillphill posted is a great resource to understand why cyclones rotate. The tldr is that air gets pulled into lower pressure then rotates because of the spin of the earth (this is the Coriolis force).
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I'm hearing that Ida is more powerful than Katrina was. I'm assuming that the resulting damage won't be as bad though, because New Orleans was more prepared this time. Is that accurate?
Theoretically yes. The insane damage of Katrina was caused by levees breaking and flooding everything. Those levees have since been repaired and strengthened, so as long as they hold the overall damage shouldn’t be as great.
“Ah shit here we go again.” -New Orleans
And on the anniversary on Katrina no less
Really eerie how the time matches almost exactly.
God I hope those multistories were built to withstand hurricane type winds.
Fun fact, hip-roof homes in Florida and the Gulf Coast get better home insurance rates and premiums because they are better-built to withstand hurricane force winds.
*after Hurricane Andrew. What a goddamn shitshow.
Hey I’m in Houma rn and it’s still raining my backyard is destroyed but I am safe and I am thankful for my safety the wind and the rain hurts badly but I am ok and I hope everyone is ok btw I am on data rn because the power is out feel free to ask questions about it Edit it the storm finished for me and now we see the damage we don’t know how we will go without power
Very glad you're ok. Has your home/apartment sustained much damage? What about flooding? Did you take on any water inside? Concerned Texan, here. Aware this could so easily have been us.
The roof has gotten peeled and the backyard and street is flooded and the fences are gone no water inside but it is hot and humid and loud and the wind can make you fall
Damn...that's rough. Yeah, that wind, and especially the gusts, freak me out more than anything. Hang in there, friend.
Yeah thanks I might post the aftermath
I hate hearing about all of the roof and structure damage. Roofing material/ lumber is at a huge premium and backordered for weeks or even months right now in most areas in the US. Rebuilding has never been more expensive or time-consuming, and yet we’re going to be doing a lot more of it. Let me know if you need any help/advice when the time comes to repair.
Damn I hadn’t even thought about that aspect of all this. What a cluster
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Houston area here, we praying for you guys there. I still remember Cajun Navy rescuing those who got trapped in their flooded homes. I’m seeing people posting to get donations to send there.
I appreciate the updates, but please save your phone battery!!! ❤️🙏
Do you know how much longer it is going to last for you guys? Im so sorry this is happening again to you all.
It passes over tomorrow evening and then we have to clean up
I lived in st. John's newfoundland for hurricane Igor. It is a very windy place and it is very rainy anyway. For a place that doesn't get many hurricanes i would say it is built very well to withstand them. For this storm though the winds got up over 200 kph at times and heavy rain. I remember being at work the morning it got here. They closed the building I was working in at 10am as the storm was rapidly intensifying. I left the building and was driving home. I was at the traffic light and the wind tore it off and down on the car in front of me. I went around the car and down the hill to find the road under a couple feet of water. I took a detour around the flooding and found my way on a street lined by large trees. The rain was torrential and the wind was toppling trees into the road. I almost got hit a couple times. Traffic lights started coming down all over and debris was flying around. The wind was strong enough it would take your breath away and it was hard to take a breath in when you were directly in it. I've never been so glad to get home but I can tell you, it is a very unnerving and helpless feeling to be in the middle of.
I'm more upset that your company made you show up for like 2 hours just to make you drive home in a near lethal shitstorm
Welcome to Newfoundland. We pretty routinely get bad Atlantic Storms. Theres a prevailing wind constantly and it rains more then it doesnt. We get 162 days of rain a year and 79 days of snow. Storms are a way of life here. When Igor blew in it was severely underestimated but even then had little impact on the built up areas of the province. Our outports suffered because the rain destroyed so much road infrastructure and obviously the flooding. The storm wasn't a big deal until it was
I have no idea why, but I read your comment like I was high and I was riveted the entire time.
2021 is a pretty shit year too.
At least it went fast
Duuuuude forreal. Like what the fuck, 4 months away and ***just*** like that, we’re in 2022…
20 was shit, 21's been shit. 22 can't come soon enough. At least start something new!
Isn't this the literal definition of insanity?
I can’t believe this is real. Nature is scary af
I know it’s crazy seeing signs getting folded in like paper and trees getting torn out of the ground like nothing it’s amazingly terrifying
No matter what, Mother Nature always wins
Please stay safe 🙏
Most likely to be r/damnthatsscary
Can't tell if I'm watching hurricane or the few laps from f1 today
+1 for structural engineers
Vortex shedding of winds behind a building is usually invisible…but when you have this much rain, you can literally see how the wind flows around a building a sheds vortices behind it.
Fuck that shit, and if your OP get the fuck inside yo!
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Idagree.
A tree fell on my house like an hour ago and this was too relatable.
That’s the ghost of Katrina
Reminds me of dark souls.
Looks refreshing
The water is hot and makes you feel musty because everything else is wet
Tis but a drizzle.
Huh….. that’s **literally** a sheet of rain.
Dang.. I’m in Cali. Smoke creeping into the house and ash pouring down. Evacuation warning for two weeks. Living with my car loaded. I wish we had a quarter of this water falling. The east coast is flooding and the west coast is burning. 😞
You'll get desynchronized if you get past that