http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ivan Posts tagged with 'ivan' at MetaFilter. Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:43:15 -0800 Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:43:15 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/44769/What%2Dif%2DHurricane%2DIvan%2DHad%2DNot%2DMissed%2DNew%2DOrleans <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/o/nov04/nov04c.html">What if Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans?</a> Author’s Note: This column was originally intended to be the final disaster in the “Disasters Waiting to Happen” series. As I was developing the hypothetical situation depicting a devastating hurricane striking New Orleans, Louisiana, the disaster waiting to happen threatened to become a reality: Hurricane Ivan, a category 4 hurricane (with 140 mph winds) fluctuating to a category 5 (up to 155 mph winds), was slowly moving directly toward New Orleans. Forecasters were predicting a one-in-four chance that Ivan would remain on this direct path and would be an “extreme storm” at landfall. In reality, the storm veered to the north and made landfall east of Mobile Bay, Alabama, causing devastation and destruction well into the central Gulf shoreline and throughout the Southeast and the Mid-Atlantic states. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.44769 Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:43:15 -0800 hurricaneivan hurricanes ivan neworleans Postroad