pictures of katrina

[LadyluvsLuxury]

WOW mother nature is awe inspiring, just continues to reaffirm my belief of a Higher Power. It took one day to destroy what it took us humans centuries to build...amazing, humbling and frightening..and wherever thouse pictures are from they are amazing!

 

[strmrdr]

wowsers
Wish id seen it in person.
That is way kewl.
but the damage it did isnt :{

 

[AGBF]

Date: 9/23/2005 1:49:39 PM
Author: Josh@JA
Here''s a picture of RITA
http://image.weather.com/interact/photogallery/pics/3/1012474632.1127398232.jpg

Josh,

Did you take this yourself or did someone send it to you? I am asking because I did not think that the edge of a hurricane would be so well-defined. I am by no means an expert on hurricanes, although I have lived through many since I grew up in a community on the water. I am trying to tell what that well-defined cloud edge means.

By the way, I agree with everyone who says that although the results of storms can be horrifying, they are incredible to see.

Deborah

 

[Momoftwo]

Those are not from Katrina, they have been passed around the internet since before Katrina, actually for a couple of years. A hurricane does not look like that. If I remember right those are from intense super cells from the midwest somewhere. I always check snopes.com because there is so much crap going around on the internet.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp

Don't believe everything passed to you on the internet, even if you know the person because more than likely it was passed to them by someone they know and so on. The friend of a friend thing is a big tipoff. The link above also gives the credit to the actual photographer.

 

[AGBF]

Date: 9/24/2005 1:21:48 PM
Author: Momoftwo
Those are not from Katrina, they have been passed around the internet since before Katrina, actually for a couple of years.

Hi, Momoftwo-

You are, of course, right. Patty also pointed out that the first series of photos was not from Katrina (see page 1 of this thread).

I was asking Josh just about that last photo, which is not one of the one on the snopes website.

Deb

 

[Momoftwo]

I did miss where someone said they weren't from Katrina after I saw the pics and a couple of answers, I had to go check it out. Those well defined edges usually are part of a line where the air temp is different (warm air running into cold air for example) from a cold front, or a wall cloud which forms from the same but can intiate a tornado. This phenomenon is much more common in the midwest than the rest of the country. I've seen cold fronts roll in here in VA, but never like those that they see in Kansas and Nebraska where those photos were taken.

 

[pearcrazy]

I was thinking that they didn''t look real because the topography doesn''t look AT ALL like the gulf coast. No rolling green hills or corn fields in S. Mississippi or Louisiana.