I was on the phone with our daughter and we were watching the weather channel. It looked like th storm was headed directly for NO. We are near the TN River and TVA has started lowering the water levels so areas will not flood.
The East side of the storm is considered the "dirty" side with the higher winds and higher chance of tornados.
It looks like the System is veering northwest but the is moving more due north. I think it's going to wind up making landfall around Biloxi or just west of it.
I'm afraid I'm in a no-win situation here. My mother is trying to ride out the storm in Fairhope AL which is on the east side of Mobile Bay. My sister and brother, meanwhile have "evacuated" to Picayune, MS which may actually get hit harder than if they had stayed home near Foley, AL.
They all lived through Frederic in 1979 and this looks like it will be roughly the same.