I'm night-owled out right now. GOOD seeing you.
Nite (for a while) everybody.
At 2 a.m., the center of Hurricane Katrina was about 70 miles south-southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River and 130 miles south-southeast of New Orleans, moving north at 12 mph.
Maximum sustained winds are near 155 mph with higher gusts, making Katrina a strong Category 4 hurricane. The National Hurricane Center warns that while the storm's strength may fluctuate before landfall, it's still expected to be a strong Category 4 or Category 5 storm.
During the past hour, a wind gust of 83 mph was reported at a buoy just east of the Chandeleur Islands, a gust of 75 mph was reported at Grand Isle, and a 60 mph gust was reported in New Orleans.
At 1:16 a.m., the National Weather Service reported that Katrina would push tropical storm force winds north of Lake Pontchartrain and along the Mississippi coast by daybreak, with hurricane-force winds spreading from the coast into the New Orleans metropolitan area by daybreak and onto the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain by mid-morning.
Sorry I missed you.
I laughed about your kids calling and worrying. Now they know how you felt on Saturday Nights when they were late getting home.
Ought to be doing that myself, but I can't let go yet...