just checkin in

[tommy]

hey guys i'm just checkin in to tell you i'm still kickin . my house and yard took a hell of a beating but i'm still here. the parish i live in is the one that took the direct hit and more than half the utlity poles are down. they say we will get power back around oct1st so til then we are running off of gernerators at night and opening the windows during the day if it gets too hot.well gotta go power is limited .

[MrsS]

Glad to hear that you are safe. Hang in there!!!

[oldjarhead]

Thanks for letting us know. Keep a stiff upper lip and good luck.

[Deersniper]

Hang in there dude. Keep your stuff safe. The governor there seems to be doing a good job. I've always thought that we could drop about some Thermobaric bombs on the circle of rotation and knock hurricanes out. We bomb everything else. Any bomb specialists out there? Would this work?

[larmus]

glad to hear you guys made it. hang in there tommy.

[SwedeSteve]

Best of wishes to you snd yourd tommy !! Stay safe...

[Cyrano]

Originally Posted by Deersniper

I've always thought that we could drop about some Thermobaric bombs on the circle of rotation and knock hurricanes out. We bomb everything else. Any bomb specialists out there? Would this work?

William Tuning wrote a book called Giant-Killer which applied the same concept to knocking out tornadoes. I'm not a bomb expert, but I know something about weather.

To knock out a hurricane, you'd need a tremendously powerful blast at its base in the eye, to break up the rotation and deprive it of energy by creating a vacuum at its base that essentially sucks the hurricane into itself. The most powerful conventional bombs I've heard of generate a fireball about half a mile across that is just barely into kilotonnage. I don't think air-droppable thermobaric bombs have sufficient power to break up a hurricane that way.

Wilbur Smith did some research for his book, Hungry as the Sea. He had much the same idea as yours: breaking up a hurricane in the climax of the book. But to do it, Smith set 250,000 tones of crude oil on fire and fireballed it up the shaft of the eye in a firestorm. It worked - but Smith's book is a work of fiction. Even though he consulted weather experts and oceanographers before he wrote the sequence, I have my doubts that technique would work.

Realistically, to break up a hurricane you'd need a nuke to be detonated in the eye, a powerful one. Thing is, the cure is likely worse than the disease. The radioactive contamination from a nuclear device has far longer lasting effects than a hurricane's wind force and storm surge does.

I believe the basic concept is sound, but at present its execution is beyond our capabilities because we don't have powerful enough conventional bombs to make it work.

[Oxford]

Tommy, I'm pulling for you and your family to come through this storm as quickly as possible.

[troy2000]

Good to know your place didn't blow away, Tommy. I was wondering.

[Windwalker]

Tommy, is there anything this old man could do to help?

[CalifgirlinOk]

I'm glad your safe...

[tommy]

i got some cool video of the whole storm from beginning to end.as soon as i get full power up to my house i'll upload them to youtube .they said the winds was like 115 but i don't know this thing blew harder than katrina did now katrina did pass farther to the east but man the destruction this storm left is unreal. the funny thing is the news people done forgot all about us all they talked about was how the levves in new orleans held up. big fuckin deal the storm didn't hit new orleans it hit us down here. they say this storm won't be remembered as the one that tore apart terrebonne parrish but the storm that just missed new orleans.