Michael Tobis wrote:
> http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=14287
>
> Consider the bathymetry:
>
> http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/gazette/html/bathymetry/gom.html
>
> I wonder if what the storm surge implications are in the shallow gulf.
> My intuition says it isn't pretty. Anyway you might as well fill your
> gas tanks today...

Looks like Gonu is headed right into the Straits of Hormuz, according
to the latest USN projection at about 18Z.

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc07/IO/02A.GONU/ssmi/gif/full/Latest.html

It could get nasty real quick.  The folks that frequent TheOilDrum.com
have been second guessing the impacts of the storm for the past 2
days.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2623#more


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