{"id":379,"date":"2008-09-01T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T21:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2008-09-01T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T21:55:47","slug":"as-gustav-winds-down-hanna-and-ike-spool-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/as-gustav-winds-down-hanna-and-ike-spool-up\/","title":{"rendered":"As Gustav winds down, Hanna and Ike spool up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Water from the Industrial Canal floods a road in New Orleans after Hurricane Gustav made landfall Monday. Image courtesy Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A weakend Hurricane Gustav<\/a> came ashore Monday morning shutting down power and swamping much of the Gulf Coast with torrential rain.\u00a0 Initially making landfall as a category\u00a02 storm, by 3:00pm MDT the storm had lost much of its power and was downgraded to a category 1 system with winds of 80 mph.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Much of the Louisiana and Mississippi coast lines were subject to extensive rains and high storm surge.\u00a0 Winds pushed the water over many levees but the Army Corps of Engineers reported no major problems.\u00a0 The largest provider of electric power in Louisiana, Entergy, said more than 700,000 homes and businesses were without power in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Federal Emergency Management Agency<\/a> (FEMA) reported two Navy boats, each about 350 feet long, that were being scrapped at a facility on the canal broke away from their moorings Monday. They are currently pinned against a wharf in the Industrial Canal but there is concern that should they move they could strike some of the canal walls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Much remains to determine the extent of damage from the storm.\u00a0 The center of the storm is currently north of Lafaette, LA and steadily moving north.\u00a0 As it does, it will weaken to a tropical storm tonight.<\/p>\n

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Satellite imagery of the potential tracks of Gustav, Hanna and Ike. Click for larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A stark reminder that hurricane season is far from over is the appearance of two additional storms – Hurricane Hanna<\/a> and Tropical Storm Ike<\/a>.\u00a0 Both will bear close watching over the coming days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hanna became a category one hurricane today and as of 3:00pm MDT was\u00a0 just east\u00a0of Mayaguana Island in the southeastern\u00a0Bahamas.\u00a0\u00a0Hanna is expected to meander for a couple of days before making a turn\u00a0to the northwest\u00a0with a possible landing anywhere between\u00a0southern Florida and the Carolinas late this week.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ike formed out of a tropical depression today and\u00a0is currently in the middle of the Atlantic, 1400 miles east of the Leeward Islands moving west at 16 mph.\u00a0 A warm ocean along Ike’s path is expected to help it reach hurricane strength in the next 36 hours.\u00a0 It is still very early to tell where Ike will end up but on its current course, it could strike Cuba, the Bahamas and possibly Florida early next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A weakend Hurricane Gustav came ashore Monday morning shutting down power and swamping much of the Gulf Coast with torrential rain.\u00a0 Initially making landfall as a category\u00a02 storm, by 3:00pm MDT the storm had lost much of its power and was downgraded to a category 1 system with winds of 80 mph.\u00a0 Much of the … Continue reading As Gustav winds down, Hanna and Ike spool up<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[50,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}