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Posted on 08/26/2005 10:25:04 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Thanks for the info. Hopefully folks are on the phones coordinating their immediate bugout plans.
Speaking of dolts, you should've seen the weathergirl on CNN earlier announcing the "good news" that the pressure on Katrina had dropped. "The more it drops, the better it is for us."
I'm thinking yeah, if you're looking for ratings, it's great news....
The freeways will be contraflow. But the local roads (2 to the northeast, 1 to the north, 2 to the northwest, and 2 or 3 west of the Mississippi River) AFAIK will still be 2 directional, allowing return trip for evacuee buses(if they run any.) If they had a good plan in place (and after watching the scared mommy governor I am starting to have doubts about that) they could set up inland shelters and make several runs using buses. Might have had to take on the unions to get that implemented, might have had to take on inland local gov't's who didn't want the problem that temporarily sheltering 'those types' would bring (which if the worst happened could turn into a long-term problem), so politics could easily have prevented a good plan from being implemented, but it certainly was possible. Not to mention that Amtrak has a major base of operation in NO, with spare equipment, that could have been planned to commandeer and run shuttle evacuee trains to shelters in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, or Alexandria. Somewhat logistically complicated, but again certainly possible to avoid the worst case, and the gov't has the power to order the railroads to clear the tracks, allowing such trains to shuttle back and forth at 60mph most of the way. Too late to organize on the fly, but they had lots of options if they had chosen to plan for them. We'll see.
I put the elders on a plane for Ivan. They already had been evac from their home due to Frances. Fortunately, they were on an Alaskan cruise during Jeanne.
Are you serious? LOL! I believe it was Rita Cosby, during a Hurricane last year, who kept warning everybody about being inside the "eye of the storm" and how this was "the worst part of it."
Do you know is she from LA?
Hey, leave us out of this...we've had our share.
I just sat here with my mouth open staring at the screen & waiting for someone to correct her. Don't think anyone ever did.
What was Mike doing in your nose? Are you milking the situation?
http://www.lsp.org/lcadeg.html
This is a useful, but somewhat confusing site.
She honest to goodness said that on live TV?
MILK! I meant MILK!
You're right.
They had never left during a storm before and they had lived here all their lives.
But they had never been facing a cat 4 or 5 or been in their late 70's before when a storm came through.
My Mom even said in her younger days she got a rush out of hurricanes. She would take us to the beach after the hurricanes had passed, when we were younger, and we did have fun finding all sorts of stuff and watching the waves.
We actually didn't give them a choice, you're right, when you get older sometimes it's hard to make those kinds of decisions. We (my other sister and I who live here) called my sis in Atlanta, told her we were putting them on a plane, called them and told them to pack a bag, and drove them to the airport on Thursday night (the hurricane was supposed to hit on Saturday, but Jeb Bush and EOC had called for evacs starting at noon on Thursday.)
And I must say, it was not only for them. My sister who lives here and I knew that if a bad hurricane hit, we'd have enough problems dealing with issues of our own families and would not need the extra responsibility of getting things for my parents. So it wasn't altogether an altruistic decision.
On closer inspection of the post times--it appears that discussion board is very quiet now. They got the message.
My friend in Cal has been trying on her cell and on the land line and gets no ring, no message, nothing at all.
I just knew that.....sounded just like an elementary teacher talking to her 2nd graders!
I watched that video linked on the other thread to Bastardi and some other guy talking about the storm yesterday.
What a punk he is.
traffic cams filling up
Fox is showing I-10 bumper to bumper. Even if the Gov isn't taking it all that seriously, the people are. I wonder if they waited too long though.
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