Gustav is headed for New Orleans

[NAKID]

They left out the tons of guana

[matt922]

Guess tax payers get another mess to clean up.

Feel bad for the people that live there, but when are gonna learn?

we are going to learn when america finds a better place to drill oil AND refine oil. If everyone moved out of LA to waste less tax money, you'd probably pregnant dog about gas being $4 a gallon...wouldn't you? yep i bet you would.

LA was built around a prosperous oil industry that probably tops every single state in the US, except Alaska. Here is a little list as far as refineries go.

Refinery Location bbls/day
Calcasieu Refining Lake Charles 15,680
Calumet Lubricants Cotton Valley 9,500
Calumet Lubricants Princeton 9,500
Calument Lubricants Shreveport 35,000
Chalmette Refining, LLC Chalmette 188,000
Citgo Petroleum Lake Charles 440,000
ConocoPhillips Lake Charles 239,000
ConocoPhillips Belle Chasse 247,000
ExxonMobil Baton Rouge 501,000
Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC Garyville 245,000
Motiva Enterprises, LLC Convent 236,000
Motiva Enterprises, LLC Norco 220,000
Murphy Oil Meraux 125,000
Placid Refining Co., LLC Port Allen 56,000
St. Rose Refining (Shell) St. Rose 55,000
Valero Energy Krotz Springs 83,100
Valero St. Charles Refinery Norco 186,000

that is..nearly two million, nine hundred thousand bbl/day
So in short, quitcherbithcin'

People stay because oil pays. Then there are always those people that like the whole culture thing in new orleans 

[Vindingo]

Guess tax payers get another mess to clean up.

Feel bad for the people that live there, but when are gonna learn?

Its kind of like all those crazy Californians that live near the areas that have forest fires, or where there are earthquakes...  people don't complain about all of the money it costs to fight the fires or repair from earthquakes.

New Orleans is one of the oldest cities in the United States (almost 300 years old), there is something special about the place.  Implying that people should just pack up and move seems pretty ingnorant.       

[Dave328]

I was planning on riding it out in Gretna (westbank NOLA), but relented under the constant badgering from wife/parents/sisterinlaw/etc. Ended up in NW Houston (copperfield, I think) staying in a friends empty house. Now it's a cat 2, so staying would have been easy and the drive unnecessary! Oh well, time to 

[superjohn]

Its kind of like all those crazy Californians that live near the areas that have forest fires, or where there are earthquakes...  people don't complain about all of the money it costs to fight the fires or repair from earthquakes.

New Orleans is one of the oldest cities in the United States (almost 300 years old), there is something special about the place.  Implying that people should just pack up and move seems pretty ingnorant.       

I agree with you Vinnie. New Orleans may be in the path of hurricanes, but it's also one of the primary access points to the most cost effective North-South transport corridor in North America, the Mississippi River. It's got a rich multicultural history that is unique and should be preserved. Abandoning the area would cost more than protecting it from, and cleaning up after the occasional storm.

[krolik]

It's better to evacuate and not have needed to, than it is to not evacuate and have needed to.

+1 to Mother.


We rode his Rat-bike yesterday while he was gone, and thought we broke it.

[IZ]

We rode his Rat-bike yesterday while he was gone, and thought we broke it.

Was it ever fixed?! 

[jdubbs32584]

Was it ever fixed?! 

Yup. I've been riding it for the past several days. Its dirty but running very smooth.

[SheMonster]

your son will be fine at keesler...  I'm staying in gulfport about a 1/4 mile from the beach not terribly worried.

They did order a base evacuation at Keesler on Sunday, but he and his girlfriend had already headed out Saturday evening.  They are fine and just having a little vacation in FL now staying at Eglund AFB near Pensacola, waiting for orders to go back.