A Cajun-Asian View

Radar image of Gustav's run from before it hit Cuba to when it passed by Lafayette, LA. Taken from Weather Underground.

A satellite image of Hurricane Gustav after the eye passed by Lafayette, LA. Taken from Weather Underground.

Spend most of the day yesterday offline because Hurricane Gustav was coming through1 town. Actually, I didn't have to be offline because we never lost power, through it did flicker on and off at times. It sounds like we were some of the luckier ones, as some parts of town were without power.

No house or roofing damage that I can tell, either. Sure, it went over Lafayette as only category 1 hurricane, but you are still talking about 73 MPH or higher winds, with gusts that can go above the hundreds. That can still do some damage. And this is in addition to the large amount of water being dumped from the sky. In the case of Gustav, it seems some dry air mixing into the system disrupted the rain cycle, causing the rain to stop after the eye passed by. It was somewhat odd to see 100 MPH gusts without the accompanying drenching rain to go with it.

1. 1. over?