That's not good news, and that's why we need to be prepared. |
that's not the place to be. |
That's obviously a very grave concern. |
That's where people are going to die, |
That's where people are going to die. All these areas are going to get absolutely clobbered by the storm surge. |
The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes. |
The 33 years that I've been at the hurricane center we have always been saying ? the directors before me and I have always said ? that the greatest potential for the nightmare scenarios, in the Gulf of Mexico anyway, is that New Orleans and southeast Louisiana area, |
The advice for folks in Florida is not to put away all those hurricane supplies yet. |
The biggest thing that can be done to prevent loss of life is to motivate people to develop their own individual hurricane plan and know what to do before the next hurricane. Some of these folks, take Mississippi in Katrina, they died because they didn't have a hurricane plan. |
The conditions have to be absolutely perfect to have a hurricane become this strong. |
The fact that we had a major hurricane forecast over or near New Orleans is reason for great concern. The local and state emergency management knew that as well as FEMA did. |
The last thing people up in that Navarre Beach and Pensacola area want to hear is we could have a hurricane headed in their direction. |
The lower the pressure, the stronger the winds and that is exactly what is happening here with Katrina, |
The main concern now is the Florida Keys. It's moving over very warm water and that's extremely favorable for development. |
The main concern right now is for the Keys -- not for a hurricane, but for a tropical storm. If it holds together, we still think it can make a comeback. |