Pictures of Katrina making landfall.

[Derius_T]

If this is an improper thread, or in the wrong place, please move it, but I just wasn't sure where it should go. I got sent these pictures, and they are incredible. I am not trying to make light of anything, just to share these incredible pictures.

 

[Derius_T]

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[Derius_T]

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[mvpel]

Astounding. I'm awestruck.

 

[mfree]

Umm, those are tornadoes.

Katrina pics would be of basically a solid, straight, black wall of clouds approaching, if you could see it at all because it'd be raining *well* before landfall.

 

[Trip20]

I've received the aforementioned pictures in email months & months ago. They come out under a crap load of different titles.

Unfortunately, due to Katrina, some idiot decided to start them over under a new title. Expect to see them under Rita's name as well.

While they're beautiful pics... they have nothing to do with Katrina, and probably nothing to do with hurricanes in general.

 

[erik the bold]

Urban Legend.
The images are mislabeled.

They are not photos of Hurricane Katrina, nor is this the first time they have circulated under false pretenses. In May 2005 they made the rounds labeled as a "storm near Bunbury [Australia]." In July and August they were forwarded as pictures of storms in various parts of Canada.

Photographer Mike Hollingshead, is to whom the photos should have been attributed, (most can be found on his Web site). They actually document various supercell thunderstorms, tornados, and other meteorological phenomena Hollingshead observed in 2004.

 

[TheBluesMan]

Off topic.

Can't let it go without busting it, though.

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

These images are actually photographs of tornadoes and other extreme weather phenomena taken by storm chaser Mike Hollingshead in Nebraska and Kansas during the summer months of 2002 and 2004. Some of these photos are viewable on the 2004 Digital Photos section of his web site (scroll about halfway down the page).