Not to be alarmist, but New Orleans DU'ers pay attention...

[steve2470]

Hurricane Katrina appears to be shifting further towards you.

http://www.weatherunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIASPFAT2+shtml/270247.shtml

[Bluebear]

1. Indeed. NO is the most vulnerable place for a hurricane in America

But they knew that. Just pay attention and stay safe.

[graywarrior]

2. I almost feel guilty that it misses us most of the time but hits NO

or the Panhandle or Miss.

[Kazak]

7. I know the feeling.

I live in Norman, Oklahoma. Tornados ALWAYS look like they're heading straight for us, then they swerve off and hit Moore instead.

[lyonn]

10. Tell me about it

The May, 1999, tornado got us. My husband always told me he was sure that any tornado coming from the SW would skip over the S. Canadian River and miss our house. Well, he got part of it right, it did skip the river and came down on our house. I think we all live in the hopes of disasters missing us and most the time they do. Hurricanes are a different animal, sooo powerful. N.O. has a unique situation, way to low! Let's hope that suckers doesn't get as big as predicted.

[Kazak]

11. Yeah, when I was a kid...

we lived in Moore, right off of 35...right in the path of two terribly destructive tornadoes within the last decade. I remember being jerked out of my bed and crammed into the bath tub with a mattress thrown over, more than once. Amazingly, the house we lived in still stands, but houses all around it have been leveled. Been in Norman for about twenty years now though. I think that is probably the most hazardous tornado zone on the planet, bar none.

[kansasblue]

3. I've seen news specials on New Orleans

and the hurricane could destroy the city. They think when a big one hits there's just no way to get all the people out in time and lots will die.

If I lived there I take off early.

[Bluebear]

4. Not a lot of warning on this one either

It kind of sprung up all of a sudden! :scared:

[BayouBengal07]

5. Crap

I'm a New Orleanian. I'm up at LSU in Baton Rouge right now, but my family is in New Orleans. Any luck and I'll get class cancelled, but I hope my folks don't have to go to Mississippi or Houston to get away.

And this better not be "the big one" that destroys my city. We can fight it off anyway x( :toast:

[Horse with no Name]

6. I just talked to a friend in Mobile

and she said "Fuck it...they were riding it out".
Apparently they will be on the bad side of the storm but she is tired of evacuating.
I would imagine that would really get old.:(

[steve2470]

8. altruistic kick nt

[yankeeinlouisiana]

9. I hope it doesn't hit New Orleans.

It's suppose to hit sometime (somewhere) early Monday morning. My children go back to school that day.

When the last tropical strom came through, I think it was Cindy, I lost the chimney off of my house.

:-(

It seemed to come straight at New Orleans, it was a very wild storm. A 4+ hurricane coming straight at New Orleans would take the city out. But we'll just keep watching and praying.

[peacebuzzard]

12. thanks for the links

[AnnInLa]

13. Believe me.....everyone in South Louisiana

is glued to the weather channel and to the internet. We are all sitting on ready.

[dogday]

14. Anyone remember the movie on FX about oil

That a large storm hit the gulf and tore up the oil platforms and we were shit out of luck for gas. Does it seem like we are going for the large storm in the gulf headed straight for them...