cali | PSA

If you are like me and don't have tv, I recommend checking out accuweather.com. They have good streaming video coverage of the hurricane and easy to understand reports about it with interesting information like this:

This is truly fascinating. Sunday, Hurricane Katrina was causing winds from 175 to 215 mph. These extreme winds were occurring in the eye wall of the storm. Now compare that to an F3 tornado which has winds from 158 to 206 mph. At full throttle Sunday, Katrina was actually more powerful. Also consider that an F3 tornado is 300 yards in diameter on average while Katrina's eye wall is 25 miles across. What this amounts to is that Hurricane Katrina has all the devastating chracteristics of a 25 mile wide tornado.

o_O I have to admit, I'm a native Californian. I have no clue what the heck a tornado or a hurricane are like up close and personal. But I've survived a few big earthquakes and I'm fully expecting a few more any day now, but this Katrina thing is just unimaginable to me. Like I totally can't wrap my head around how bad this thing might be. Stay safe y'all!