Tornadoes last night
I have been sleeping outside in a tent, outside of the main quarters of Celebration Station. Why? Well the cat's meow all night! And dogs from intake bark, and once we even had a duck quacking. Last night I was awaken by a very large thunderstorm. I kept on rolling over no wanting to go inside thru the rain. At about 2:30 I was rousted out of my bed by Bill and Kris, who informed me that I must come in because there was a tornado warning. It had been upgraded from a watch, for one had touched down somewhere. Somewhere turned out to be just one exit up at the airport!
http://www.wdsu.com/news/6675164/detail.html?rss=no&psp=news
NEW ORLEANS -- Tornadoes early Thursday tore through New Orleans neighborhoods that were hit hard by Hurricane Katrina just five months earlier.
Authorities said at least one hurricane-damaged house collapsed and a radio tower at the former headquarters of the Louisiana State Police Troop B was blown down.
A line of severe thunderstorms moved across the area around 2:30 a.m. Tim Destri, of the National Weather Service, said it appears the damage was caused by two tornadoes, one that hit the airport in Kenner and another that originated in Metairie and moved into the New Orleans area.
At Louis Armstrong International Airport, electricity was knocked out until shortly before noon. Until then, passengers waited in a dimly lit terminal powered by generator. Only a couple of flights could get out in the morning because luggage scanners had no power and security checks had to be done by hand.
Wind ripped away a tarp covering a hole made in a Concourse C roof by Katrina. It also tore away exhaust venting from another roof and blew it through a concourse window, depositing it at a security checkpoint.
A piece of an extendable jetway used to board passengers was torn in two, with the outer portion turning on its side as it slammed into another jetway. Motorized runway luggage carts were overturned.
The damaged concourse is used by United and American airlines, among others. Those airlines were temporarily relocated to other concourses.
New Orleans Police Department spokesman Juan Quinton said damage appeared to be limited only to a portion of the city from the Jefferson Parish line toward Lake Pontchartrain badly flooded during Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.wdsu.com/news/6675164/detail.html?rss=no&psp=news
NEW ORLEANS -- Tornadoes early Thursday tore through New Orleans neighborhoods that were hit hard by Hurricane Katrina just five months earlier.
Authorities said at least one hurricane-damaged house collapsed and a radio tower at the former headquarters of the Louisiana State Police Troop B was blown down.
A line of severe thunderstorms moved across the area around 2:30 a.m. Tim Destri, of the National Weather Service, said it appears the damage was caused by two tornadoes, one that hit the airport in Kenner and another that originated in Metairie and moved into the New Orleans area.
At Louis Armstrong International Airport, electricity was knocked out until shortly before noon. Until then, passengers waited in a dimly lit terminal powered by generator. Only a couple of flights could get out in the morning because luggage scanners had no power and security checks had to be done by hand.
Wind ripped away a tarp covering a hole made in a Concourse C roof by Katrina. It also tore away exhaust venting from another roof and blew it through a concourse window, depositing it at a security checkpoint.
A piece of an extendable jetway used to board passengers was torn in two, with the outer portion turning on its side as it slammed into another jetway. Motorized runway luggage carts were overturned.
The damaged concourse is used by United and American airlines, among others. Those airlines were temporarily relocated to other concourses.
New Orleans Police Department spokesman Juan Quinton said damage appeared to be limited only to a portion of the city from the Jefferson Parish line toward Lake Pontchartrain badly flooded during Hurricane Katrina.
posted by Rachel H. McKay | 7:04 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home