Just got up...and saw Shep.
He sounds like this is going to be SO much less of a storm for NO than he thought yesterday...
Is that so? It would be amazing if so, because the storm looks pretty much the same as when I went to bed about 6 hours ago...
I thought the same thing when I woke up the morning.
Not so.
We haven't heard from the step-dauther and her family of seven yet. Hoping it's because of the phone lines......I'm sure they are okay. They booked out of Gulfport yesterday at about 10:30.
"Just got up...and saw Shep.
He sounds like this is going to be SO much less of a storm for NO than he thought yesterday..."
Just got up too!
I hope he is right - and I hope it was all a bunch of doomsayers fed by all the people wanting to send the price of oil up.
Like someone posted earlier, if a seagull pops on an off shore rig, oil goes up 10%
Western side is weakened slightly, storm's proabably going a bit more to the east of NO, and it's trucking along about twice as fast now as it was last night. That's really important because there's less time for it to sit and spin and dump. Less rain and wind damage. Still possibly horrific, but not catastrophic. Here's hoping :)