Gustav is headed for New Orleans

[NAKID]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2654687/New-Orleans-mayor-orders-evacuation-as-Hurricane-Gustav-bears-down.html


Ray Nagin has warned residents: "You need to be concerned and you need to get your butts moving and out of New Orleans right now. This is the storm of the century.

"We want 100 per cent evacuation. If you decide to stay, you are on your own.

"This is the mother of all storms. This storm is so powerful and growing more powerful every day that I'm not sure we've seen anything like it."

[Le Pirate]

Ray Nagin has warned residents: "You need to be concerned and you need to get your butts moving and out of New Orleans right now. This is the storm of the century.

"We want 100 per cent evacuation. If you decide to stay, you are on your own.

When Katrina hit a lot of the people said they "couldn't get out." I'm not going to argue whether or not that was true, but this time....they've given the citizens every available option to leave the city (buses, etc...).

If people are still staying....then this time....it's their problem.



BTW---the local news here had a story where they were interviewing a NOLA citizen and he was saying that the federal government had caused this storm to "finish off the city"


WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!!?


It's nature people....get over it.

[S4ROB]

If you live near the water, you are going to get wet.

Live video feed   http://www.wwltv.com/video/?nvid=57429&live=yes

[Kopfjager]

www.wunderground.com

[wbeck257]

Yup -- they told us Friday when we left work to come back Tuesday w/ bags packed for two weeks.

Hopefully this thing will push further west and spare NOLA w/ the larger of the storm surge. But reguardless it is going to suck for somewhere here in a few hours.

And once this thing is done w/ it looks like Hanna is going to turn towards the Georgia coast...

[matt922]

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

sucks now because nearly every gas station down here is..... OUT of fuel. We have ~15 gallons of generator gas if it does take the hook to the east and follow the coastline like katrina did...

just an FYI folks, Katrina hit coastal MS dead on, not new orleans, the fishbowl just couldn't stay float with katrinas surge

[jdubbs32584]

Mother is helping with the evacuations and cleanup. Please keep him in your thoughts.

[NAKID]

Awesome! Glad to see they are ahead of the curve this time. Good luck Jacob and God Speed...

[mikeb]

Just wanted to give a shout out to my fellow NOLA peeps......and fellow DMF'ers with folks in the NOLA area.  Just want to tell everyone to stay safe. 

Wife and I had a trip to Pensacola planned for the holiday weekend.  So we are just chillin at the beach.  Given the tract of the storm we decided to stay a little longer and ride it out here.  Closed up the house real good before we left on Friday.  So all is well with us. 

Just wanted to say hey and wish everyone of my fellow DMF'ers in the 504 well........


Later.

[IZ]

The s/o, me and the dog were just at the Human Race and bat festival in downtown Austin.  We ran into a few groups of people who just  evacuated from New Orleans.

That has to suck to just get up and leave all your house and all your valuables behind!  Has anyone heard about any looting down there yet?   

[Kopfjager]

Has anyone heard about any looting down there yet?   

Just give it alittle time. 

[NAKID]

The s/o, me and the dog were just at the Human Race and bat festival in downtown Austin. 

WTF is that?

[lethe]

WTF is that?

Something that we'll never see clear pictures of.

[Kopfjager]

It was in Austin. Soo probably some Artsy fartsy Hippe event.

[IZ]

WTF is that?

FU LETHE!!  

Nike's Human Race being held all over the world.  Only a few cities in the US having it and Austin is one of them.

Austin
Bogotá
Buenos Aires
Caracas
Chicago
Istanbul
London
Los Angeles
Lima
Madrid
Melbourne
Mexico City
Munich
New York
Paris
Quito
Rome
São Paulo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Taipei
Tokyo
Warsaw
Vancouver

http://www.runtex.com/web/2-2089.asp

THe Bat Festival is on the Congress St. bridge where all the bats fly out of everynight to eat the bugs.  

Austin, Texas has one of the world's largest bat colonies living in the heart of downtown â€" under the Congress Avenue Bridge. Every night during the summer months, millions of bats come out from under the bridge and fly off into the night. This spectacle is celebrated at the Austin Bat Festival, a two-day event held in the true spirit of south Austin. It features live music, bat viewing and education areas, good food and plenty of family-friendly fun.