Waiting for Barry to impact

[EllisWyatt]

We're sitting here waiting for the rains of Barry to hit (NNW of New Orleans).
Not too concerned at our location, especially when I realized that the Rolling Stones are in town for a concert, and the only one more difficult to kill than Chuck Norris is Keith Richards.

 

[joeea]

Good luck.

 

[NW-Bound]

... the Rolling Stones are in town for a concert...

How high do they have to roll up their pants?

Never mind. I just realize they will be on stage. Only their fans need to worry about the water.

 

[MichaelB]

We're sitting here waiting for the rains of Barry to hit (NNW of New Orleans).
Not too concerned at our location, especially when I realized that the Rolling Stones are in town for a concert, and the only one more difficult to kill than Chuck Norris is Keith Richards.

Is Keith Richards still alive? I read somewhere he died a few years back and they’ve been propping him up like “Weekend at Bernie’s”.

 

[LOL!]

The winds do not appear to be hurricane strength if one reads the NWS text. Basically they said, "It's so close we will just call it a hurricane even though no winds have been measured at hurricane strength."

What is worrisome is that the raining bits shown on radar are reminiscent of hurricane Harvey where moisture from Gulf waters kept replenishing the rain clouds that kept moving onshore. It is unlike a thunderstorm coming across land from the west or north which just passes in a few hours. This looks like it will be a lot of continuous rain for at least 10 hours.

 

[W2R]

The winds do not appear to be hurricane strength if one reads the NWS text. Basically they said, "It's so close we will just call it a hurricane even though no winds have been measured at hurricane strength."

What is worrisome is that the raining bits shown on radar are reminiscent of hurricane Harvey where moisture from Gulf waters kept replenishing the rain clouds that kept moving onshore. It is unlike a thunderstorm coming across land from the west or north which just passes in a few hours. This looks like it will be a lot of continuous rain for at least 10 hours.

Barry has made landfall more than a half hour ago at Intracoastal City, Louisiana (just south of Lafayette), and due to that, has been downgraded from a Category 1 Hurricane to a Tropical Storm.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT2+shtml/131746.shtml

 

[Accidental Retiree]

Is Keith Richards still alive? I read somewhere he died a few years back and they’ve been propping him up like “Weekend at Bernie’s”.

I don’t know where this came from.....

 

[Accidental Retiree]

Barry has made landfall more than a half hour ago at Intracoastal City, Louisiana (just south of Lafayette), and due to that, has been downgraded from a Category 1 Hurricane to a Tropical Storm.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT2+shtml/131746.shtml

Y’all got this.

 

[EllisWyatt]

So far, so good. Light rains all day, but less than 1" so far..... Keeping our fingers crossed that it continues to bypass us.

BTW.....had a friend explain to me that Keith Richards DID pass on a couple of years ago, and the Stones now tour with a Disney animatronic of him......

 

[Oz investor]

We're sitting here waiting for the rains of Barry to hit (NNW of New Orleans).
Not too concerned at our location, especially when I realized that the Rolling Stones are in town for a concert, and the only one more difficult to kill than Chuck Norris is Keith Richards.

thank goodness it wasn't Ozzy Osbourne , he would probably move the concert into the epicentre ( of the crisis )

 

[Cut-Throat]

I left Minnesota a few days ago to come to New Orleans for the Rolling Stones Concert and some fishing... I have been here since Thursday and have not seen any severe weather yet.

I am currently in Bay St. Louis Mississippi (50 Miles from New Orleans) and we have no rain and not a breeze to rustle the leaves in the trees all day today.
The thunderstorms in Minnesota last week were far worse as far as rain, wind etc. - But we didn't make the news.

 

[TheRunningMan]

Huge amount of doom porn with this storm...hopefully that is all it is. Hope you all get through ok!

 

[W2R]

Here in New Orleans, it looks like Barry turned out to be a dud. We say a storm like that "shoo-shoo'd out" or it "was a shoo-shoo".

Great news and worth smiling about. All we got was a little drizzle and brief light rainfall.

As for the Rolling Stones, they were supposed to be here for JazzFest but Mick's unexpected surgery delayed that until this weekend. Now it's delayed until Monday. I think it is so cool that they were able to reschedule it twice like that.

 

[Montecfo]

Huge amount of doom porn with this storm...hopefully that is all it is. Hope you all get through ok!

Seems that is often the case. And now of course they name storms that aren't even hurricanes. Hype machine.

Speaking of the Stones I reminded myself that Keith Richards was once known as Keith Richard. But he had changed back to Richards well before his death.

 

[W2R]

Seems that is often the case. And now of course they name storms that aren't even hurricanes. Hype machine.

Speaking of the Stones I reminded myself that Keith Richards was once known as Keith Richard. But he had changed back to Richards well before his death.

Death? He isn't dead, right? He's alive and 75 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Richards

 

[NW-Bound]

Nothing much happened in New Orleans apparently, but places like Mandeville and Morgan City did get flooded.

 

[Montecfo]

Death? He isn't dead, right? He's alive and 75 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Richards

If you have seen him recently you would agree.

 

[LOL!]

Here in New Orleans, it looks like Barry turned out to be a dud. We say a storm like that "shoo-shoo'd out" or it "was a shoo-shoo".

Great news and worth smiling about. All we got was a little drizzle and brief light rainfall.

Radar shows all the heavy rains remain out in the Gulf. Those rains have not come on shore yet.

Here is a tuned map to animate.

 

[RunningBum]

Seems that is often the case. And now of course they name storms that aren't even hurricanes. Hype machine.

You say that like it's something new, but they've been naming tropical depressions for 66 years. It's not something the Weather Channel pushed for to get more viewers.

 

[marko]

You say that like it's something new, but they've been naming tropical depressions for 66 years. It's not something the Weather Channel pushed for to get more viewers.

But now the WC names every minor snow storm too. As if 5 inches of February snow in Boston is something the whole country should be concerned about and glued to their TVs. What's next? "Cold Snap Jimmy"?

WC is the worst of scare mongers IMO.

I DO love Running Man's term "doom porn" tho!

 

[Montecfo]

You say that like it's something new, but they've been naming tropical depressions for 66 years. It's not something the Weather Channel pushed for to get more viewers.

Oh it is new. I am not talking about tropical storms. Winter storms for example. It is a controversy.

 

[Bestwifeever]

Oh it is new. I am not talking about tropical storms. Winter storms for example. It is a controversy.

Yes--here is a Wikipedia article on winter storm naming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_storm_naming_in_the_United_States

Seems there are good reasons not to name them; the Weather Channel is the only entity involved.

 

[eytonxav]

Although the storm surge may not have been as bad as forecasted, I believe several days of heavy rain are still to come, and that will cause more flooding. The heavy rains will head north and then it will all come down hill with rivers overflowing their banks. I am not sure the state can breath a sigh of relief quite yet.

 

[RunningBum]

Oh it is new. I am not talking about tropical storms. Winter storms for example. It is a controversy.

OK, but...the thread topic is a tropical storm. And it's not winter. But whatever.

 

[MichaelB]

I don’t know where this came from.....

Thanks! That is funny