They also reported on Fox that hotels are booked solid as far to the north as Nashville and as far west as Dallas.
I'm sure there will be a ton of open shelters in Shreveport and the like. I just hope people are taking this seriously enough. I remember when I first moved to LA people told me all the time how bad a cat 5 hitting NO would be so it kind of gets hammered in. Kind of like earthquakes in CA.
I just did a search on the Marriott website for hotels in Nashville, Memphis, Birmingham, and Jackson MS.
Nashville and Birmingham have plenty of hotels with rooms. Memphis only has 2 Marriott properties with rooms still available. Jackson, MS was booked solid.