Gustav, be nice

[infrogmation]

H and I are contemplating it might be road trip time again, as Hurricane Gustav is forcasted to be heading to the central Gulf Coast.

I've never seen so much activity while a storm was this far out before. There were lines at gas stations in Chalmette 2 days ago and some buildings Uptown being boarded up yesterday. While I always keep an eye on storm threats, the early track projections heading straight towards us didn't worry me much, as one thing I don't recall any hurricane doing is continuing in a straight line for 6 days.

I'll be keeping an eye on the National Hurricane Center website, and the birds. The birds bugged out the Saturday before Katrina; if they go I'm not sticking around. Rumors have it that Da Mayor may issue an evacuation order way early and at lower hit possibility than Ivan etc.

Of course people here have their minds on the terrible scenes from this time 3 years ago







The horror... the horror...

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[mshollie.livejournal.com]

I still have my bag semi-packed from the Florida trip, so all I have to do is straighten it out a little bit. I'm ready.

[jdquintette.livejournal.com]

I'd be a lot more enthusiastic about evacuation if we weren't driving a 17 year old car with 300,000 miles on it.

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, be good if we had decent regular train service, no? I mean like in Europe, or parts of the North East and Chicago area. Man, that could make things so much easier.

It was an adventure driving from here to Jacksonville in advance of Katrina in a car with malfunctioning brakes....

My guess is this storm isn't going to be a bad one for the city, but there will be an evacuation declared anyway.

And hotels are mostly all booked up as far away as Tennessee and Texas already.

As I don't care to try to drive all the way to Austin to impose on my friends, especially with everyone else on the road, I was fortunate to book a room at a b&b in Mississippi that from my research seems not to be an armpit and in a wet county. We shall see.

[ancientscripts.livejournal.com]

G makes H and I run away...

Sounds like the making of a new nursery rhyme. And perhaps it'll have a punch line around W.

Latest from NOAA sure looks like it's heading straight your way. So good luck and keep safe!

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

If the city gets destroyed a second time, I wonder which will happen: the same thing, or a massive 100% effort that could only be motivated by an upcoming election?

If the former, then I'm cynical enough at this point that they'll find a way to make it so that victims of the storm can't vote.

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. I think W. has been the punch line of a nasty practical joke on all of us.