"My houseguests from Houston are supposed to be leaving today. Maybe I'll just follow them home. Of course, the normally 4-hour drive will probably take 20 hours with all the traffic."
You'd be wise to do so. I think the forecasters are off on the timing of the landfall. All week I kept waking up at 4a.m. Something about early a.m. when people are "generally" asleep. Keep your weather alert radios near by, the kind that go off like an alarm clock.
FWIW, the 06Z GFDL has made the largest shift of a respectable model in the last 24 hours...not a very large one in the typical grand scheme of things, but it misses NO to the east and hits central Mississippi.....