For those interested in keeping up with the progress of hurricane Lili Tracking map: http://vortex.plymouth.edu/hur_dir/hur_pos_nt3.html Latest advisory: http://www.nola.com/hurricane/popup/td13.html New Orleans radar: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p19r0/si.klix.shtml Batten down the hatches! This one is going to be rough! jackie *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Fenton" Category 4 hurricane Lili in Gulf of Mexico > > Batten down the hatches! This one is going to be rough! > Strange but true: Early this AM while we were all bracing for a windy onslaught, Lili backed off from a Category 4 to a Category 2 storm. And none of the meteorologists seems to understand why! In the 24 hours preceding the slow down, while advancing over the warm Gulf of Mexico waters, Lili, as expected, had steadily increased in windspeed, then, in the wee hours this morning, slacked off mercifully. When she made landfall it was with a relatively paltry 100 mph windspeed and we all feel quite blessed to have been spared greater inundation and windy destruction. So curiously misunderstood a phenomenon is this as to be fodder for future Ph.D. dissertations; it is said. All my kayaks had been tied down. Arthur Hebert's were water filled to weight them down. The normal ER crowd stayed home (making my workday delightfully mellow) and a good day was had by many, here in Louisiana. (Folks in the know suggest there will be bump in the birth rate nine months hence - a natural product of the protracted rain and feelings of gratitude. Larry Koenig Baton Rouge,LA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> From: "Koenigs" <gyst_at_cox.net> > Strange but true: Early this AM while we were all bracing for a windy > onslaught, Lili backed off from a Category 4 to a Category 2 storm. And > none of the meteorologists seems to understand why! What a fortunate break! So glad to hear it for all of you along the coast. I know the ground was already pretty saturated last week. Seems like much of the anticpated rain luckily just didn't happen this time. I had heard on the news that over 3,000 prisoners were moved inland from Galveston jails due to concerns about Lili. Cape Canaveral delayed Atlantis' launch because concern that NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston wouldn't be available (I heard this was the first time a launch at Cape Canaveral was canceled because Houston anticipated a problem). See: http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021001-033921-8862r Glad you are all OK. Maybe the front from the north had some impact? Whatever it was, I know there is great relief along the Gulf Coast tonight. Cheers, Jackie *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I wrote: > (I heard this was the first time a launch > at Cape Canaveral was canceled because Houston anticipated a problem). Actually, this is what the news reports said: " It is the first time in NASA's history that bad weather at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Texas has delayed a space shuttle launch from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida." http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts112_delay_021002.html Cheers, Jackie *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Fenton" Category 4 hurricane Lili in Gulf of Mexico > > Batten down the hatches! This one is going to be rough! > Larry said: <snip> Strange but true: Early this AM while we were all bracing for a windy onslaught, Lili backed off from a Category 4 to a Category 2 storm. <snip> Larry, I was following the hurricane with my daughter as part of a school project. I was surprised when Jackie sent the warning, as we didn't think it was going to be that bad -- except for rain (I can see why Jackie was concerned as even the experts were issuing dire warnings). Our local weather guru figured it would fizzle in the Gulf from cooler water to the north and dryer air near the coast, and he was correct. Unfortunately I got busted at work on company time accessing weather information and web cams - a no no on government computers. Guess I'll just have to get high speed internet at home. Anyway, glad it wasn't so bad (no death toll). I'm glad I don't live down Arthur's way -- I'd be pulling on his arm every time the storm surge warnings came up - especially ones supposed to sweep inland for 25 miles.. Hope you are healed up fully after your near death experience on America's highways a while back, and aren't impeded in any way from enjoying kayaking. Three army guys hit a rock wall in their Firebird outside my shop the other night at 150 km/h (all died). Really got me thinking about getting out and kayaking more -- never know how much time we have left - I haven't even baptized my new dry suit yet, but alas, winter storms are just around the corner. The two kiwis brothers, Garth and Kevin Irwin who left Victoria last spring for Alaska and back, should be getting down to Vancouver Island's west coat just about now, as they finish their trip-of-a lifetime. <http://www.cankiwiskayak.com/kiwiscan.htm> How's the planing for your next adventure going? Didn't you have something going on with Arthur? Doug Lloyd (still somewhat somber after Melissa's "Black Hull" provocative purple prose) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Lloyd" <dougl_at_islandnet.com> > Larry, I was following the hurricane with my daughter ... >Our local weather guru figured it would fizzle in the Gulf > from cooler water to the north and dryer air near the coast, and he was > correct. He was correct indeed, and may have had it figgered better than did the folk at the National Hurricane Center in Miami who predicted worse than we got right up until an hour or so before landfall. The gulf water is not normally much cooler near the coast but, may have been last week because of the passage of Tropical Storm Isidore the week prior. The predicted 10 - 20 foot storm surge turned out to be 6 - 10 ft. -still high enough to flood a lot of houses on the roads to Vermilion and Cote Blanche Bays. The only high land (hence, only roads) in extreme south Louisiana is alongside the rivers and bayous where silt dropped out of the flood water after overflow. That and the "islands" of land that cover bulging salt domes in the marsh (like Avery Island where Tabasco sauce is made). > How's the planing for your next adventure going? Didn't you have > something going on with Arthur? The La Costa Del Golfo trip takes off February '03. (We're leaving then so as to avoid next year's hurricane season.) This is a time of a huge amount of planning, letter writing, permission acquisition and so forth. I've healed up about as well as I'm gonna, I reckon. It's been a real gift and blessing this getting better, and I can paddle very nearly as well as ever I could. Thanks for asking. Larry Koenig www.lacostadelgolfo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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