[meadsjn]

I pray the miracle occurs...but if I were in its path I would already be over in Houston or Mobile.

So do we. But with 90 degree water ahead, it is likely to persist or grow even stronger. And after it does diminish, it will drop its load of water inland along the way north. People all the way up the projected path should be moving out of the valleys.

[Jeff Head]

Agreed my friend. You get just an empty, sick feeling watching this. So many can't get out, those kids outside th Superdome tear at your heart...so many other foolish that will not ge out...all of them caught up in something beyond our mortal understanding.

I still pray the storm will veer off from a direct hit on NO, but if it does that, there are just others (much fewer in number perhaps) who are thn in its path.

Our prayers are for and with them all. The results of this catastrophie, barring a miracle where it weaknes signficantly and misses NO...could end up impacting all of us significantly.