I woke up this morning to something I never expected. Katrina is now a category 5 storm with 175 mph winds. As some of you know, I am a hurricane nut. Living in the potential path of destruction for a few months a year, I keep updated on the paths and statistics of hurricanes as they form and develop. I went to bed last night and Katrina had 115 mph winds. Yes, a category 3 storm, but something that I see at least a few times during the year. Jeanne was a category 3 at impact and that hit about 50 miles north of here last year.
Katrina is completely different. Right now it is much more powerful than Andrew was at landfall and if it hit land today would have the second lowest pressure ever recorded. This is really a terrifying storm. I drove through Homested a few months after Andrew went through in 1992 and it was the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life. If anyone out there has friends/family in the path of this storm you need to call them now to make sure they have evacuated.
Normally I am a light hearted person, but this hurricane makes my skin crawl. I just know that there is some "cowboy" out there in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama who figures he is tough enough to ride it out. Trust me...the pictures from CNN that everyone is going to see on Tuesday morning will not be pretty, no matter where it hits. I feel very lucky that we only got brushed by Katrina when she was a much weaker storm.
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