"Last major Hurricane to make the hit on New Orleans was Betsy in 1965. Celebrated my 1st birthday with the roofing flying off at my grandparents house in a little town of Goodhope."
I was about 5 and living in Metairie when Betsy hit. Those memories will stay with me forever. We had to evacuate through a window (including my Grandma), go to a shelter, watched as our car, with my dad still in it, go onto two wheels as it almost got blown away, the darkness and sounds of glass breaking all over the school we were being sheltered in. To say that Betsy put us through hell is putting it mildly.
Has anyone heard anything about the Mobile/Foley Alabama area yet? I am trying not to get to excited this time around. At first I thought that this area was going to miss the bullet, but since there will be a second landfall, things have changed.
Here's a wonderful history lesson of a previous hurricane that hit in the direction this one is taking...and they claimed it to be a Cat 3 on todays scale.