Slabbed Proudly Presents the Cyber Premiere of the Winds of Katrina
I was honored a few weeks ago that the good folks at Bill Hudson and Associates sent us a complimentary copy of the Winds of Katrina, a presentation of the Coastal Weather Research Center of the University of South Alabama. After watching the 20 minute documentary I immediately inquired if it was or could be embedded on YouTube as the scientific treatment of what made Katrina’s winds special (for lack of a better term) is simply excellent. Dr Bill Williams and Dr Keith Blackwell provide a Joe Friday like narration laying out what I had the misfortune of experiencing first hand; the destructive power of the violent winds that buffeted the Mississippi Coast for hours before the storm surge arrived.
Below the fold it is my pleasure to present the cyber premiere of this excellent documentary. Now for the curtain.
Part 1 – The Setup Segment
Part 2 – Eye wall Replacement / Double Eye wall
Part 3 – Collapsing Cores (Plough Winds / Tornadoes)
Sop, I watched all 3 parts of this and actually learned a thing or two from a Meteorologist point of view. The message was SCIENTIFCALLY CLEAR THOUGH – GREAT, GREAT FORCES OF WIND & RAIN DESTROYED MULTIPLE STATES, and THEN THE STORM SURGE came and added insult to injury.
Very educational.
SHIRLEY HEFLIN
shirley heflin
August 8, 2009 at 10:53 pm
I have an email in to Dr Williams that has a few questions that might form the basis for a follow up post. The film is an excellent scientific documentary.
sop
sop81_1
August 9, 2009 at 9:15 am
Extremely interesting. I sure wish that “The Scientific Community” had had expertise like this for CAMILLE. My Family got royally “screwed” by their homeowner’s insurer in that one. Although “Sandy Hook” does not have a “shear event” right on top of it (as seen on Dopplar Radar), two such events are “very” close, but slightly to the North. I sure hope the Spansels’ expert is familiar with this series.
Ashton O'Dwyer
January 19, 2010 at 4:45 pm
I would hope so Ashton, the folks over at USA have done a bang up job. If you go back and see one of my first posts on claims dumping I give the real life example of my best friends house. You see if you were there early on it was pretty easy to tell even with slabs (for instance Gene Taylor’s metal roof was twisted in pine trees way above the water line so you knew his roof blew off). The expediated NFIP payment procedures generally didn’t apply to adjustable claims like the one I illustrated.
Nowdy also highlighted the concept very early on as she sought to reconcile what I was telling her against what she had heard elsewhere. She found a very early version of the answer the scientists at USA, MSU and UW would elaborate upon at length in this documentary.
sop
sop81_1
January 19, 2010 at 5:05 pm