9-11-08 Regular Gas 3.51-3.52; Oil crude at . . Why so low? Govt or whoever/whatever keeping it down until after the elections, hoping Gustave and Ike aftermath won’t be too bad??
Ike is going to hit the Texas coast around Galveston-Houston Friday evening or night according to the Hurricane Center. It will be at least a Cat2; maybe a 3-4. It’s very large and spread out over a large area; it’s coming at high tide and this will add a lot to the storm surge. Gas has already gone up 20 cents a gallon in Nashville, TNording to my friend, Diana who lives there. She called and said overnight their gas went up thurriat much. But they live in a part of the country that gets all their supplies from the gulf Coast. Western US and Arizona get most of Gas from California; althoughAZ gets some gas from the Gulf.
According to Nola.com late Thursday afternoon, parishes in Louisiana are threatened by storm surge starting that afternoon! Recovery efforts have been closed down until the tropical storm threat from Ike passes by. Jeez these poor people!
And we have ANOTHER thunderstorm watch/warning that we’ve had twice a week for the last 3-4 weeks! All this rain is great but more than I remember in monsoon for a long time.
9-12-08 11.00 a.m
New online from different sources:
Masters’ at Wunderground Ike will be more powerful and destructive than Katrina or Rita or Gustav. Not just the category of hurricane but how wide an area it covers and winds and the energy it creates and how it pushes sea water or ground water into a surge. I certainly don’t understand all of that but Jeff Master’s says it could be one of the most destructive storms of all time. The whole of Galveston Island was supposed to be evacuated but only about 1/3 did.; as of the writing according to some estimates.
At TOD something about a military officer remarking on rescuing 37,000 people.
Aftermath of Ike, after all the other storms and stuff, will have a terrible effect on the ability to restore power after power crews have been out in Louisiana the past 2 weeks and parts of the East Coast had power problems after Hanna, TS , went through. 1:10 p.m. MST Downtown Galveston is filled with water already … 30 % of the city hasn’t evacuated and one bridge out is impassable and the other one has risk of high winds … there are only two bridges out of Galveston; Anniversary of Hurricane Carla, too.
People are making run on gas stations in the southeast, some station have rationed their own gas, sometimes they just run out. Governors in Alabama and Kentucky have declared states of emergency (have I got those right?) because of the gasoline problems.
Of course, it's going to price itself way up the next few days ...
From TOD: 19:55CDT KHOU-TV: Galveston has lost electricity. (7:55 p.m. CDT) Landfall from the eye isn't until midnight or 2 am. and look at everything that's happened so far. ...
Also, guy from wunderground.com says he expects a huge power outtages for Texas. I'm sure hemeans at least a few days if not more. 200 miles wide and 300 miles deep in from the coast--:0 Hope that area is over the worst of it's heat for the year.
shamba
Showing posts with label hurricanes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hurricanes. Show all posts
Friday, September 12, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Augs 27, 28 and 30
August 27, 2008
Hurricane Gustav following in Katrina’s Footsteps—EEK!
Almost 3 years to the day (!) it looks like another hurricane is following what Katrina did.
However, we’re still more than 72 hours from wherever it’s going to land so it could change direction. AT the moment however, accuweather and the NOOA (?) National Hurricane Center shows it on track to hit the gulf Coast from the western edge of Louisiana to part of the Florida panhandle. It’s aiming, so far, right into the offshore Louisiana oil patches, the heart being that little spit of land coming out of Louisiana that is the end of the Mississippi.
I went to Sprouts today and bought all the bulk stuff I’ll need for at least another month! NO, not because of sympathy hurricane preparedness. J I’m still cooking with the solar oven and can make another recipe without looking at the written instructions. Is this progress? (The answer is yes.)
We’ve had lots of rain this monsoon. The past month we’ve had some real soakers going to for than the usual monsoon 1-2 hours of hard rain. We’re ahead on our rain needs for this year in our watershed.
Oil went up a barrel because of the Gustavo situation. It’s been really low the past month or so, funning 112-120 dollars a barrel. Our gas is at 3.61 this week. DJA has been in the middling 11,000 range the past month or so.
August 28, 2008
Gustav is still on the move—may be a hurricane officially Friday or Friday night. It’s going a little west right now so that takes it west of NOLA (New Orleans Louisiana).
Hannah has joined the group of tropical depressions lining up across the Atlantic from Africa—there’s another tropical depression right west of Africa tonight and about 5-6 other possibilities lined up right across the middle of the map of Africa! Hannah, if it becomes a hurricane is expected to hit the East Coast anywhere from Florida up north according to my interpretation of the possible 5 day track at the national Hurricane center.
Senator Barak Osama made his acceptance speech for the Democratic nominee for the presidential campaign tonight. Yes, I’ll vote for him. A t least he gives lip service to knowledge about the problems we need to face in the next few years even if what we wants to do about them won’t be possible for everything we want to and need to spend money on. Energy shortages, alternative energy, climate warming problems, economic problems … And he also said we should be able to come up with some kind of common ground solutions for the things like gay marriages/unions and abortion …. He’s right about that, too. I believe that’s especially true about abortion and I’m a fixed, longtime supporter of Choice and the Roe v Wade decision.
The Republicans start in on Monday.
There’s a growing fear of Russia doing something to cut oil/energy supplies to Western Europe. We have sent humanitarian aid but on military ships to one Georgian port. That’s just one move in this little Georgian chess game. That little move with Gulf of Mexico hurricanes doesn’t bode well.
Didn’t they invent chess in that part of the world, the Middle East?
The news is more interesting than ever the past few morning when I’ve gotten up to read my portion of doom for the day!
Cheers,
shamba
Aug 30
Gustavo is officially a Cat 4 just going over the west end of Cuba. It intensified very quickly midday Saturday Aug 30. ………….
Had big lightning show last night but no rain here. Huge areas of the sky would light up behind the clouds at a time. It was like watching someone walking with a lantern behind curtains through a window.
Clouds are everywhere in the sky today and that’s not a usual sight here summer or winter. They all seem to be heading for some consolidation point. Yes, there is a chance for storms tonight. We’re up something like 3 inches on our yearly rain!
Gas here today for 3.61 and it’s been down that low for about 5 days now; this is probably as low as it’s going to get for a while since Gustave Hurricane at No. 4 is within 48 hours of central to eastern part of Louisiana coast. It just finished over Cuba and has entered the GOM. Landfall is expected around Houma and Morgan city at the last info I read at oildrum.com and one of the weather sites. I’ve also been reading this evening a few comments on the above website about Gustavo is really projected to move closer to New Orleans than it has been the past day or so. So, is this the stake in the heart of Southern Louisiana and New Orleans? We always need a port there but maybe not a big city. I guess we’ll know about that Sunday morning.
And the damage to the oil/gas stuff? I don’t want to think about that at the moment. I’ve read enough about that for one day.
Oil/Gas for 75% of GOM production has shut down and evacuated workers. NYMEX trading usually opens on a Sunday at 6 p.m. but tomorrow it’s opening like 3 -3.5 hours early. (I don’t know where NYMEX actually is, if it has a location. It may be a cyber exchange and “opens” in relation to the many stock markets around the world.)
Trading on Friday closed at $115.46. I imagine it will go up by a bit after trading opens
Hurricane Gustav following in Katrina’s Footsteps—EEK!
Almost 3 years to the day (!) it looks like another hurricane is following what Katrina did.
However, we’re still more than 72 hours from wherever it’s going to land so it could change direction. AT the moment however, accuweather and the NOOA (?) National Hurricane Center shows it on track to hit the gulf Coast from the western edge of Louisiana to part of the Florida panhandle. It’s aiming, so far, right into the offshore Louisiana oil patches, the heart being that little spit of land coming out of Louisiana that is the end of the Mississippi.
I went to Sprouts today and bought all the bulk stuff I’ll need for at least another month! NO, not because of sympathy hurricane preparedness. J I’m still cooking with the solar oven and can make another recipe without looking at the written instructions. Is this progress? (The answer is yes.)
We’ve had lots of rain this monsoon. The past month we’ve had some real soakers going to for than the usual monsoon 1-2 hours of hard rain. We’re ahead on our rain needs for this year in our watershed.
Oil went up a barrel because of the Gustavo situation. It’s been really low the past month or so, funning 112-120 dollars a barrel. Our gas is at 3.61 this week. DJA has been in the middling 11,000 range the past month or so.
August 28, 2008
Gustav is still on the move—may be a hurricane officially Friday or Friday night. It’s going a little west right now so that takes it west of NOLA (New Orleans Louisiana).
Hannah has joined the group of tropical depressions lining up across the Atlantic from Africa—there’s another tropical depression right west of Africa tonight and about 5-6 other possibilities lined up right across the middle of the map of Africa! Hannah, if it becomes a hurricane is expected to hit the East Coast anywhere from Florida up north according to my interpretation of the possible 5 day track at the national Hurricane center.
Senator Barak Osama made his acceptance speech for the Democratic nominee for the presidential campaign tonight. Yes, I’ll vote for him. A t least he gives lip service to knowledge about the problems we need to face in the next few years even if what we wants to do about them won’t be possible for everything we want to and need to spend money on. Energy shortages, alternative energy, climate warming problems, economic problems … And he also said we should be able to come up with some kind of common ground solutions for the things like gay marriages/unions and abortion …. He’s right about that, too. I believe that’s especially true about abortion and I’m a fixed, longtime supporter of Choice and the Roe v Wade decision.
The Republicans start in on Monday.
There’s a growing fear of Russia doing something to cut oil/energy supplies to Western Europe. We have sent humanitarian aid but on military ships to one Georgian port. That’s just one move in this little Georgian chess game. That little move with Gulf of Mexico hurricanes doesn’t bode well.
Didn’t they invent chess in that part of the world, the Middle East?
The news is more interesting than ever the past few morning when I’ve gotten up to read my portion of doom for the day!
Cheers,
shamba
Aug 30
Gustavo is officially a Cat 4 just going over the west end of Cuba. It intensified very quickly midday Saturday Aug 30. ………….
Had big lightning show last night but no rain here. Huge areas of the sky would light up behind the clouds at a time. It was like watching someone walking with a lantern behind curtains through a window.
Clouds are everywhere in the sky today and that’s not a usual sight here summer or winter. They all seem to be heading for some consolidation point. Yes, there is a chance for storms tonight. We’re up something like 3 inches on our yearly rain!
Gas here today for 3.61 and it’s been down that low for about 5 days now; this is probably as low as it’s going to get for a while since Gustave Hurricane at No. 4 is within 48 hours of central to eastern part of Louisiana coast. It just finished over Cuba and has entered the GOM. Landfall is expected around Houma and Morgan city at the last info I read at oildrum.com and one of the weather sites. I’ve also been reading this evening a few comments on the above website about Gustavo is really projected to move closer to New Orleans than it has been the past day or so. So, is this the stake in the heart of Southern Louisiana and New Orleans? We always need a port there but maybe not a big city. I guess we’ll know about that Sunday morning.
And the damage to the oil/gas stuff? I don’t want to think about that at the moment. I’ve read enough about that for one day.
Oil/Gas for 75% of GOM production has shut down and evacuated workers. NYMEX trading usually opens on a Sunday at 6 p.m. but tomorrow it’s opening like 3 -3.5 hours early. (I don’t know where NYMEX actually is, if it has a location. It may be a cyber exchange and “opens” in relation to the many stock markets around the world.)
Trading on Friday closed at $115.46. I imagine it will go up by a bit after trading opens
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