[NautiNurse]

What does that mean for hospitals and hotels to be exempt? Exempt from evacuation or some charter that prevents it? This is amazing.

[vetvetdoug]

Geesh. This will be the third remnant of a hurricane to pass over me since July if the track holds. My farm back roads are washed out, I can barely keep up with the grass from all of the rain and heat, and the barn steel keeps popping up from all of the wind. Because of all of the rain his year, water has gotten under the house and there is some mildew forming. This has been the wettest year I can remember since moving here 25 years ago. If this bugger keeps up its tropical storm status when it gets to North Mississippi, We're in for another bunch of old oak trees turning topsy turvy.

[Semper911]

This is amazing.

This is a train wreck.

It is a no win situation. If NO gets nailed, it will be catastrophic. If it lands east or west, it will also be catastrophic, because all the media coverage (and models) are focused on NO.

[Ellesu]

What does that mean for hospitals and hotels to be exempt? Exempt from evacuation or some charter that prevents it? This is amazing.

I don't know. Perhaps he is concerned about the criminal element that could damage the hotels etc. that are empty, although if everyone is cleared out, and curfew is called, no one would be there to wreck the empty businesses. I don't know if they think they don't have time to get tourists out who flew in and now the airport has canceled many many flights and those tourists that want to leave are stuck at the airport. The liability from transferring so many ill and critically ill patients on roads in which contraflow is not working, especially since so many waited. How many need Air Med? He waited too late. Should have called for voluntary evacuations Friday night, mandatory Sat am. JMO.