Tropical Storm, Depression, Hurricane Chris

[yleekiyote]

Ok, break out your roseries folks, Mother Nature is looking to start F'ing with people again. Should not be a huge category 4 or 5, but can provide some serious damage regardless. I know this thing is over 7 days away, but computer models have it taking a similiar path as Katrina. This is scary enough.

Make your pre-plans now and keep your eye on this. :eek:

[chinarain62]

Jesus. I sure hope you guys don't have to go thru this crap again.

[78 zebra man]

If this thing come our way I am gonna have to change my name! ! ! ! ! ! :mad:

[shoeluvr]

ah ha! we know your reaL NAME NOW!

[zebrarette]

Okie Dokie friends in New Orleans....we are all keepin our eyes on this one. Remember, if you guys need to get out...the boudin5 house is open. If we need to get out...it ain't. Let's all keep our fingers crossed and say a few extra prayers. Looks like we are going to possibly have that Katrina Evacuee reunion party afterall.

[zebrarette]

BATON ROUGE - Gov. Kathleen Blanco's crisis management team is expected to be activated today, as Tropical Storm Chris continued to strengthen Tuesday on a projected path that will put it in the Gulf of Mexico by Sunday.
The Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, which has 24-hour monitoring of the Atlantic and Gulf weather patterns, was preparing to activate the team, said spokesman Mark Smith.



"Because of the weaknesses inherent in Louisiana because of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, we are in a heightened level of readiness," Smith said. "We have an amazing number of supplies and commodities prelocated around the state ready to move as needed."

Blanco's staff was coordinating with state and coastal emergency preparedness officials, said Kim Hunter Reed, the governor's chief communications adviser.
"As always, we will prepare for the worst and pray for the best," Reed said.

Smith said while all models show the storm breaking up, the state emergency office is nevertheless preparing.

With the storm far out in the Atlantic, it is far too early for much reaction, said Terry Ryder, the governor's executive counsel.

"But because of last summer, we are leaning forward even more now," Ryder said. "We are watching it very, very closely."

The National Hurricane Center said the storm is small - about 50 miles across - and moving at 10 mph. The center of the storm at 8 p.m. Tuesday was near latitude 18.3 North, longitude 61.6 West, and was expected to move over the northernmost Leeward Islands on Tuesday night and early today.

Tropical storm warnings were issued for the islands of Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, St. Kitts, Nevis, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Barthelemy, St. Martin and St. Maarten. A warning also was in effect for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

[GuitarPLYR]

Well f*%k me running!! I didn't even know this was out there. :confused:

We had enough last year, I will think positive and say that this will not effect us. I HOPE!!!

[mark]

No thanks. Not standing on your head either?

Actually I seen it a couiple days ago as tropical storm building. But it was way to early to determine its direction. Was first looking like a Florida hit on the gulf side.



Well f*%k me running!! I didn't even know this was out there. :confused:

We had enough last year, I will think positive and say that this will not effect us. I HOPE!!!

[GuitarPLYR]

No thanks. Not standing on your head either?



LOL!!!! :D

[jeff connelly]

Keep A Prayer Going This Could Do Anything,even If It Hits Somwhere Else Thik About Those People.the Season Is Here.

[bayougirl]

Okie Dokie friends in New Orleans....we are all keepin our eyes on this one. Remember, if you guys need to get out...the boudin5 house is open. If we need to get out...it ain't. Let's all keep our fingers crossed and say a few extra prayers. Looks like we are going to possibly have that Katrina Evacuee reunion party afterall.

I made my reservations at the boudin5 house. And your's are made at my house.

[yleekiyote]

It appears that this storm will be no threat to anyone right now. Computer models have it dwendling to nothing. It's still heading almost due west. Time to send Mexico some soap, they will get their well deserved bath in about a week or so.

[GreggFromJoisey]

Tropical Storm Chris runs out of steam By LAURA CANDELAS, Associated Press Writer
9 minutes ago



SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Tropical Storm Chris rapidly ran out of steam Thursday morning as it pushed across the eastern Caribbean, prompting forecasters to say it was unlikely to become a hurricane.

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At 8 a.m. EDT, Chris had top maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, just 1 mph above the minimum to be a named storm and down 20 mph from Wednesday night, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The center of the storm was about 285 miles east-southeast of Grand Turk Island.

The third named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was moving west-northwest near 12 mph and was expected to move away from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands later Thursday, forecasters said.

"It's pretty much a skeleton at this point," hurricane specialist Jamie Rhome said. He said the thunderstorms that a tropical system needs to grow have been blown away by other winds in the atmosphere. Forecasters now think it isn't very likely that it will become a hurricane, but intensity predictions are tough to make.

"Some storms do make a comeback and some storms never ever come back," he said.

The government of the Bahamas downgraded its hurricane watch to a tropical storm watch for the Turks and Caicos Islands and for the Southeastern Bahamas, including the Acklins, Crooked Island, The Inaguas, Mayaguana and the Ragged Islands.

A tropical storm watch remained in effect for the coast of the Dominican Republic from the northern border of Haiti to Cabo Engano. A tropical storm watch means tropical storm conditions are possible within the next 36 hours.

Authorities in the Bahamas, an archipelago of 700 islands accustomed to stormy weather, had earlier urged people to stock up on water and canned food and to board up their windows as the storm approached.

In Staniel Cay, about 75 miles south of Nassau, the Bahamas' capital city, boat owners secured their vessels and tracked the storm's progress through the eastern Caribbean.

"We're just battening down the hatches and tying everything down," said Ernie Sullivan, a boat owner at the Staniel Cay Yacht Club. "You just can't say if this thing will pick up steam."

Some 600 tourists evacuated Culebra and Vieques, small islands off Puerto Rico's east coast, as the storm approached. The storm was projected to pass at least 100 miles north of Puerto Rico.

People in the islands of Antigua and St. Maarten awoke to a light rain. There were no reports of major flooding or other damage from the storm.

Royal Caribbean, the cruise line operator, said it was altering the itineraries of three ships — the Navigator of the Seas, the Explorer of the Seas and the Freedom of the Seas — to avoid the storm.

In Anguilla, Chris brought heavy rain and strong winds overnight but the storm was much less severe than expected because it shifted to the north at the last minute, said Elizabeth Klute, director of the disaster management agency for the British Caribbean territory.

"It just kind of skirted us," Klute said. "It's moving on."

The first named storm of the 2006 season, Tropical Storm Alberto, swept over Florida in mid-June, then plowed northward along the U.S. coast. It was blamed for one death.

Last season was the worst in more than 150 years of records. A record number of tropical storms and hurricanes formed, including the devastating Hurricane Katrina.

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On the Net:

National Hurricane Center: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

[chinarain62]

Whew! :o This sounds like good news for the NOLA family!

[zebrarette]

It is good news.....for now. Have learned from years living here....when any storm gets into that warm gulf.....it's a a crap shoot. They have narrowed projected paths, etc which is great.....we still need to keep our eyes and ears open. Our TV and computers at work stay on the weather channel to keep tabs on Chris. Let's keep our guard up....and prayers going.

[jeff connelly]

You Are Correct If Any Of This Will Reach The Gulf It Could Very Well Be Another Storm When It Gets To That Hot Gulf Water,anything ,hopefully Nothing Will But You Never Know.