New Orleans keeps wary eye on Gustav

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My nephew is a professor at Loyola University…and he is staying in Tennessee for the week until it blows over. He said classes have been canceled for the week. He just graduated with his PhD, and this is his first year teaching. I just hope he has a college to come back to! Please pray that he’ll be ok.😦

Thank you.
 
We have the technology but lack the will to stop coastal erosion and rebuild the swamps and marshes south and east of NO which provided a tremendous amount of protection against the massive storm surges in front of an approaching hurricane.
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No truer words could be spoken,

John
 
My cousin took over her parents old house in Chalmette when she was finishing up law school at Loyola. She just passed her bar exam and now this! She is on her way here now. My father lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, as do my grandparents, they are all going to Birmingham, AL. He stayed there after Katrina bc he sees a special dialysis doctor there for his renal failure and all of the transplant lists he is on are at the Medical Centers of New Orleans, Alabama, and Mississippi. Please pray that he and my mother have a house to come home to and that my cousin has a house to come home to. The rest of my family moved from New Orleans and they will be safe but I am worried for the rest of my family. I moved to Texas post-grad recently for work and the fact that I cannot take another hurricane scenario. My college got wiped out and I had to move and transfer, and we all finished out that Fall 05’ semester with hardly any gas, water, ice, or electricity for 2 months pretty strong and things slowly got better but it was horrible and I cannot do that again. Please pray for my family, many of them are evacuating now(thank God) but I am worried. Thanks.
 
My aunt lives in New Orleans. She’s in her 80s, stubborn as a herd of mules and she’s gone through hurricane Camille, Katrina and several more. She has a daughter in Baton Rouge whom she could stay with, but the stubborn old thing probably won’t.

I can only pray for her and the rest of the city.
 
Loyola closed at noon yesterday. My niece just moved into the dorms last Sunday. They made them evacuate and take all of their belongings with them. She (and Sis) were not happy campers.

My cousin in Chalmette just got his Road Home money (3 years after Katrina) and was rebuilding. He’s up here in Baton Rouge at his daughter’s house. My brother (in NO) was heading to Lafayette to Sis’s until he learned that she was ground zero. He’s now taking his family to Florida for a “vacation”. Sis is nowhere near any body of water and lives in a subdivision with underground utilities. She didn’t loose power during Katrina or Rita while I was without for two weeks both times.

There is no sign outside that there is a hurricane approaching. I went through Betsy as a teenager. I spent the night of Camille on Canal St because I had to work. Been through Andrew, Katrina, and Rita…I pray for all my fellow New Orleanians and south Louisianians and anyone else who might be affected by the storm.

Pnewton - howdy! I don’t think you have to worry too much. The buses and trains to evacuate NO are headed towards north Louisiana. Hotels/motels are full here in Baton Rouge but there will be no wholesale evacuation here…no shelters, etc. A lot of those folks who evacuated for Katrina ended up staying here and didn’t move back home. ( I’ve been here for thirty years and I still want to move back home. DW is not so enamored of the idea).
 
brotherhrolf said:
Loyola closed at noon yesterday. My niece just moved into the dorms last Sunday. They made them evacuate and take all of their belongings with them. She (and Sis) were not happy campers.

My cousin in Chalmette just got his Road Home money (3 years after Katrina) and was rebuilding. He’s up here in Baton Rouge at his daughter’s house. My brother (in NO) was heading to Lafayette to Sis’s until he learned that she was ground zero. He’s now taking his family to Florida for a “vacation”. Sis is nowhere near any body of water and lives in a subdivision with underground utilities. She didn’t loose power during Katrina or Rita while I was without for two weeks both times.

There is no sign outside that there is a hurricane approaching. I went through Betsy as a teenager. I spent the night of Camille on Canal St because I had to work. Been through Andrew, Katrina, and Rita…I pray for all my fellow New Orleanians and south Louisianians and anyone else who might be affected by the storm.

Pnewton - howdy! I don’t think you have to worry too much. The buses and trains to evacuate NO are headed towards north Louisiana. Hotels/motels are full here in Baton Rouge but there will be no wholesale evacuation here…no shelters, etc. A lot of those folks who evacuated for Katrina ended up staying here and didn’t move back home. ( I’ve been here for thirty years and I still want to move back home. DW is not so enamored of the idea).
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I wonder if she has my nephew as a teacher in any of her classes.
 
Hi Brhrolf, bilibA, and everyone here living in the area, and with families in the area. I will pray for everyone to come out safe and for their protection, and for thier homes. Rpp thank you for making this post, and keeping us updated on what is going on. Also, if you google Weather Underground, and click on their website, it will give you plenty of information with different maps, tracking, and satellite shots. It’s mandatory evacuation now. Remember to bring your pictures/baby videos, computer/laptop, mini file cabinet of important papers, books if you’re in school, pets if you can, and anything that is priceless that can fit in your vehicles. xo
 
brotherhrolf said:
Pnewton - howdy! I don’t think you have to worry too much. The buses and trains to evacuate NO are headed towards north Louisiana.
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I am sorry for your sake but I think you are right. It looks bad for Eastern Louisiana. I would hope Houston would open up her arms agains, despite problems last time. We may be out of the woods by tomorrow afternoon and more avaiable to house refuges. At this time we are all on standby, but not all called in. Either way, when I go to work Monday I will be prepared to stay.

Be careful.
 
it must be hard to live in the SE United States and have to worry about the potential of these type of hurricanes every year.

i know sometimes they can abruptly change positions, but if it has already entered the gulf of mexico, i don’t think there is any good outcome from this.

we can only pray for safe evacuations!!
 
Mayor Ray Nagin has ordered his “Chocolate City” evacuated and is providing buses, etc to accomplish this. I wonder why he didn’t do it during Katrina.
 
OLPS, pray for us.

There’s hope it won’t rebuild in intensity which is good news for wherever it hits. We’ll have to wait and see. As a a New Orleans native with family all over the city and suburbs, this is all too familiar.
 
Yerusalyim said:
Mayor Ray Nagin has ordered his “Chocolate City” evacuated and is providing buses, etc to accomplish this. I wonder why he didn’t do it during Katrina.
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This is hardly the time to be pointing fingers. With Katrina, there was blame to go all round, including some residents who ignored advice to evacuate despite being able to do so. But it’s one thing to put people on buses and another to provide them a safe place to go, food to eat and water to drink. Not everyone can just afford to fill up the gas tank (if they indeed own a car) and check into a hotel.

There was all-round failure to coordinate services for the poor/sick/disabled last time. It irks me when I hear people make blanket statements without considering all factors, like a reporter on Fox this morning, who actually called those who didn’t evacuate before Katrina stupid! Guess he’s never had to live from paycheck to paycheck; blowing hot air pays very well it seems.
 
i’m sure they will be debating the katrina fiasco for decades.

it seems they learned a very hard lesson from 3 years ago. things are going right this time. the mayor is actually doing his job and making sure people evacuate.

sometimes the truth hurts. i don’t know that i would agree with the Fox reporter that called the people stupid. maybe they weren’t aware of the danger, maybe they were afraid their houses would be looted, but, i think if you live in an area like this where major hurricanes are a threat, you personally, meaning your family, should have a plan of action and be prepared for a storm like katrina and gustaf.

i regret the loss of life from katrina and the people whose bodies were found trapped in their homes.

this is my take on it anyway.
 
Safe to say that we learned from Katrina. There was nary a car on 1-12 yesterday afternoon when I drove into BR because everything in my community east of BR was shut down. (Imagine that! Walmart closed and the big Walmart on the eastern subdivision of BR was closed as well). Didn’t get the big battery for the flashlight that youngest son wanted but hey, DW bought me a “wind-up” flashlight. It works great. I have it sitting next to me.

My family has been in south Louisiana since the 1760s. I can’t imagine living elsewhere. I’ve lived elsewhere and it ain’t NO or south Louisiana. I’ll be 57 this month and I can recount to you every hurricane I’ve been through. Betsy (1965) was the worse. Daddy and I had to take the slats off of my brother’s and I twin beds. We had to nail the slats together and then nail them over the picture window…stuff blankets between the window and slats and stand there for three hours during the height of the storm to hold the window.

Everyone talks about Katrina. We didn’t evacuate in '65. The Ninth Ward flooded but it was an Italian neighborhood then. LBJ was down the night after the storm with a flashlight under his chin.

My folks talked about the storm of '47. Hurricanes were not named then. The eye of the storm passed directly over NO. I’ve not seen such a thing in all my life but my mother and father remembered it.

We live in a part of the world where hurricanes are a fact of life. How many folks in the US live with earthquakes or tornadoes (although we get them too). We have days of warning before a hurricane hits.

Our Lady of Prompt Succor, pray for us!
 
wow, you have been through a lot of hurricanes. i am 56 and i remember betsy and i think i remember camille too.

i will keep NO in my prayers today!!
 
What is the purpose of watching some reporter in a hurricane’s path standing there with his microphone getting rained on and blown around? Everyone else has left. We know what rain looks like. We know what wind looks like. It seems to me like an affectation that has little news value.
 
yes, the news media loves to get out there in the thick of it all.

i get tired of seeing this also. we can tell by looking at the trees how strong the wind is blowing, we don’t need to see them out there trying to stand up.

one time, one of the people will be hurt by flying debris and that will be the end of it. or they will just blow away like the man i am watching now who can hardly stand up.

they have to get that one shot!!
 
Copperman said:
What is the purpose of watching some reporter in a hurricane’s path standing there with his microphone getting rained on and blown around? Everyone else has left. We know what rain looks like. We know what wind looks like. It seems to me like an affectation that has little news value.
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What’s the purpose?! You have to fill up the 24 hour coverage time some how.
 
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