Please be well_New Orleans evacuation

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Everyone, please wish the Inventor (New Orleans resident) and others on WP from this area to be evacuated well.......
Please read the news article below for details:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/us/31 ... ref=slogin


The devastation of Hurricane Katrina and aftermath hurt many, and the Inventor suffered. I know there are others here who did too. Let this not be repeated. I am afraid......

Alaskan Lab Pet sends a 'be well' message to New Orleans.

I haven't been watching the news, I can't imagine what those people have gone though, stay safe Inventor, I hope this misses the city.

Thank you LabPet,

The evacuation has gone well. Hardly anyone left in the city, and most of those will be gone tomorrow.

There is really no telling where a storm will hit, most hook left or right as they approch the coast. It is still two and a half days away, near Cuba.

Tinky is also in New Orleans.

A lot of this is hype, FEMA will get it right this time, but FEMA does not control storms.

Hurricanes spawn tornados, they strike inland, where the people are going. The main thing is getting people back from the coast, for the storm surge just rolls twenty foot of water over our low coastal plain. That is what kills people.

The monster winds are, but are only sixty miles wide, then fall off quickly. If you are in the path, it is a big tornado. It is projected now to be fast moving, to come inland at 145 MPH winds, anything over a hundred starts taking roofs, toppling trees, and then it will rain ten inches a day or more. We live on very flat land, so we get inland floods.

If it stays on track, lands west of the Mississippi River, there are the river levees that will stop the water. We will get wind and rain, some high water, and if the levees hold, designed to withstand 17 foot above sea level, a low Category 3 storm, but failed at 10 foot in three or more places in Katrina, since partly patched, we will be OK.

If it comes east of the river, as a 3, 4, or 5, it will top the levees, and flood the basin twice as deep as Katrina.

Our defenses as designed by the United States Corp of Engineeers. Their motto, "We can't be sued."

Hurricanes are things of great beauty, the sky spins above you, the air clears, and for a few days the stars come out at night. It is the power of nature, huge and unstopable.

Hurricane is a Mayan word, the name of a God.

Wishing the best for Inventor and tinky.

Always had a special love for hurricanes.

wishing well

Good luck to everyone on the Gulf Coast, and stay safe!

I'm originally from Houston, and my family is there. I was caught up in the evacuation from Rita in 2005. It took 19 hours to reach a place where it normally takes 2-3 hours to reach.

gahhh!! !

ok, i'm better...we're supposedly leaving soon because mother dear refuses to listen any of us. my father doesn't want her to go out on her own so he insists on following her. i might not be on...for a while. hopefully they don't do what they did last time and close the city on us. i couldn't go home. that was a horrible feeling.

I have friends that live down there and I'm worried about them. I'd call but I'm worried they may be a bit busy at the moment.

Email them if they have email. If they're busy, emails are easy to ignore.

Tim, are you affected at all by Gustav?

No, but the Beaumont-Port Arthur area, about 80 miles east of Houston (I'm visiting family for the weekend), is under a tropical storm warning.

not sure if we're leaving actually. eye of hurricane seems to be falling apart. winds are blowing pretty darn hard and the only people driving on the street are police cars. this is going to be quite exciting

Hold onto your hats. Our thoughts and concerns are there with you, especially during this time. Take shelter someplace safe until the worse is over.

weee!! !! !

thanks, i'm going to need that when we lose power. after hurricanes it gets really hot. i mean no wind blowing at all. also, there's a great dead silence that haunts the air. no crickets chirping or birds singing. that's what happened last time, anyway.

Tinky! Not evacuating will make FEMA cry!

You should be in some country school gym with a thousand other people!

Weather update, all the hot air from the politicals and news has blown the storm apart. It keeps moving faster and falling apart.

They spent several hundred million on a tropical storm.

1.9 million quit working, left, and after milking this for overtime, they will be allowed to come back.

1.9 million X $1,000 a head, $2 Billion, gas, food, lodging, a week of lost work.

$5 Billion in overkill, for a thunderstorm.

From not showing up at all for Hurricane Katrina, to a full invasion for Thunderstorm Gustave.

Sometimes we get three of these a year.

For that kind of money we can build another city, say in New Madrid, MO, and a rail system connecting the two.

Yes, Republicans are capable of spending money, and creating a Police State, after such things as 9/11 and Katrina. They can't deal with the problem, but it is an excuse to tear up the Law, and Dictate.

The Sheriff of my Parish has announced thet we are incarceated on our property, until further notice, crossing the street to talk to your neighbor is grounds to be take to jail.

Homeland Security, we don't need no Constitution, we have guns.

No one has said Martial Law was declared.

As Mayor of this City I am ordering everyone to leave till I say you can come back.

Anyone who does not leave is confined to their property.

Since when do Mayors have that kind of power?

Everyone in the Country is under Self Arrest! Start marching to Siberia!

This is not a good model for dealing with Thunderstorms.

During Katrina they responded, they ringed the city with men with guns, within hours, letting no one in or out, then waited a week to come in.

Then they kept us out for six weeks.

So what was the Government Plan, a City in Rebellion?

This time they drive the population out, and bring in 1750 National Guard, to occupy.

What are they practicing for?

That's right, we have oil, and voters, get rid of the voters, and the oil belongs to the State.

Although we are incarcerated, and forbidden to set foot off our cell, we are also told that we will get no Police, Fire, EMT, services. They are all still here, collecting 24/7 overtime, playing cards, and do not want to be bothered.

Supplies have been stockpiled, but not for us. They are for the Government occupation force.

As usual, they want the river, they want the oil, they do not want us.

From the Wrong planet Channel in Occupied New Orleans, now over to Tinky for an update on WEEE!! !

not to be a nit-picker (okay, yes I am doing that_

I believe you mean minutes-and that's if the eye of the storm passes over you; also assuming there is and "ee of the storm (most hurricanes have eyes but some do end up with high cirrus clouds and the like over the center...



Hurricane comes from Huracan, the god of Wind, Rain, and Fire...

oddly enough I remeber some saying hurricane came from the name of a god that the natives of Hispanola used...