Urgent Prayer Request - Katrina

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dumspirospero:
I would like to ask everyone to please keep me, my family, and all residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in your prayers…unfortuneatly, Katrina has found very warm waters in the gulf and strengthened to a CAT 5 Hurricane and landfal is expected within the next 24-36 hours…Katrina is heading almost to the same exact spot that Camille (1969) hit…and it is nearly as strong…and will probably strengthen further before landfall. We are in a state of emergency here…it is crazy. Let us pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Prompt Succor. God Bless you all…if we lose power, it may be a while before I see you all online…

Vivat Jesus,
Sonny
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Sonny,
I offered my Mass this morning for all in the wake of the hurricane. Praying for all. I have family in New Orleans and Mississippi, so know I included everyone.
God Bless,
Marie
 
As I promised from last night, I lit a candle for all of you down in the path of the hurricane.

Get out, when told, minutes of difference can be either side of life or death.
Things can be replaced but you cannot.
Besides, if the worst happened we won’t know unless you contact a few other people fromt hese forums. ALL OF YOU are family and we want YOUR safely in God’s hands!
 
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Edwin1961:
Get out, when told, minutes of difference can be either side of life or death.
Things can be replaced but you cannot.
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I said a special rosary for you all.
But look, you guys, Edwin is right!! I know how you feel; I am one of those “stay with the house” people too. But staying with a house without heat & lights is one thing; staying with a house in a CAT 5 hurricane is another! Get yourselves to someplace safer.
I continue to pray. God bless.
 
The latest is 175mph!!!

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
 
I love you all…thanks for your prayers. Right now, the storm is going to pass east of brotherhrolf and I…New Orleans desperately needs our prayers…along with all those cities along the coast. Geezerbob…I have discussed driving up to Natchez…but I have some people and property I need to safeguard here…and logistically I can’t get it to work…so I will be staying in Baton Rouge…I am confident that Our Lady of Prompt Succor will intercede on our behalf.

Vivat Jesus
Sonny
 
The local Tv is finally on doing hurricane reports instead of infomercials. The traffic from New Orleans passing through is staggering. They have all lanes of the interstates (into Mississippi) interstates open and all heading north.

The outerbands of the hurricane, squal lines, are just about into New Orleans. We’re starting to cloud up here but the wind is just a breeze at this point. TV told us to expect sustained winds of 45 + mph and gusts up to hurricane strength - that’s in Baton Rouge proper. I’m about 20 miles east but above 1-12. There is mandatory evacuations in my civil parish just south of I-12 because that’s all lowland area swamps.
 
Ouch - evacuating an entire CITY??!!! It must be really bad :eek:

Michael :gopray2:
 
Christus Rex:
Ouch - evacuating an entire CITY??!!! It must be really bad :eek:

Michael :gopray2:
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Streaming audio:
wjbo.com/main.html
This link is coming from Baton Rouge

I am streamlinking right now!
What I am listening to is UNBELIVABLE!
WInds up to 175MPH and and gusting to 215 MPH! :eek:

This maybe the WORST hurricane of ALL TIME!
 
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Edwin1961:
Streaming audio:
wjbo.com/main.html
This link is coming from Baton Rouge

I am streamlinking right now!
What I am listening to is UNBELIVABLE!
WInds up to 175MPH and and gusting to 215 MPH! :eek:

This maybe the WORST hurricane of ALL TIME!
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Nope. Camille and the Labor Day storm of 1935 were worse. Camille had sustained winds of 190 to 200 mph. The Labor Day storm had sustained winds of over 200mph. But this is very very very bad.
 
Winds now 184mph, with a central pressure of 902 millibars! This is worse than Andrew!
 
Momofone:
Winds now 184mph, with a central pressure of 902 millibars! This is worse than Andrew!
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FEMA has just said that Katrina will NOT weaken before it makes landfall!

Twenty to 25 foot seas are expected!
A HUGE surge!
 
I was just shy of being 14 when Betsy hit New Orleans in 1965. The eastern part of the city went under about 5’-7’ ft of water. We had an 8’ x 8’ picture window in our living room. My father had taken down two closet doors and nailed them over the window on the outside. At the height of the storm (somewhere around 1:30 am), we could see the window bulging in. We dismantled my brother’s bed and my bed, took the slats, nailed them together and stuffed blankets and pillows behind it. My father and I pushed and held the whole thing for well over 2 hrs. The storm surge put ocean going ships up on the Mississippi River levees. This is going to be far worse than that for New Orleans.

I have annointed my house with holy water. We have our votive candles of the Sacred Heart, BVM, St. Michael, St. Joseph and St. Jude ready for tonight. I am deeply worried about my old neighborhood (seven of the fourteen families on the block that moved there in 1955 are still there). My sister has called some of them with no answer so I can only hope they got out.

Keep praying y’all…please.
 
Thanks for the link - it sounds like traffic has become a much worse problem than I remember it being.

Dear Lord, please keep our Gulf Coast brothers and sisters safe and let them escape the path of the worst damage in an orderly way.
 
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brotherhrolf:
I was just shy of being 14 when Betsy hit New Orleans in 1965. The eastern part of the city went under about 5’-7’ ft of water. We had an 8’ x 8’ picture window in our living room. My father had taken down two closet doors and nailed them over the window on the outside. At the height of the storm (somewhere around 1:30 am), we could see the window bulging in. We dismantled my brother’s bed and my bed, took the slats, nailed them together and stuffed blankets and pillows behind it. My father and I pushed and held the whole thing for well over 2 hrs. The storm surge put ocean going ships up on the Mississippi River levees. This is going to be far worse than that for New Orleans.

I have annointed my house with holy water. We have our votive candles of the Sacred Heart, BVM, St. Michael, St. Joseph and St. Jude ready for tonight. I am deeply worried about my old neighborhood (seven of the fourteen families on the block that moved there in 1955 are still there). My sister has called some of them with no answer so I can only hope they got out.

Keep praying y’all…please.
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As you can see we have 2 rosary and I divine mercy chapelt threads started.

I will be gone after 5PM. but will on and off give news updates on my Wicked Storms thread.
 
Update: The sea level winds are 175 the high winds are 184 up where the hunter planes fly. Those of us in hurricane alley (Ivan/Dennis) will still get 60-70 + winds and a bunch of rain.

There is STILL a great deal of debris on the ground all over the place and that becomes projectiles. The county has ceased picking it up…

Flooding is going to be a problem all over the place and Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach already has water over the roads and are being mandatorially evac’d. The wind is intermitent and not bad right now. It has not sarted to rain here yet.

We intend to remain here unless it jigs back towards us, (which is not likely). It will be bad, but nothing like what we have endured so far. Those in the path are in real danger and Mobile all the way over into Louisiana is racing to get their people to safety and prepare as best they can.

Pray for us all. If you have friends and relatives around the strike zone. Now is the time to get 'em on their cellphones and tell 'em to come stay with you because there are probably millions of people looking for a safe place to stay until this is over.
Pax vobiscum,
 
Here’s something interesting…
Did you know the city of New Orleans’s patron is Our Lady of Prompt Soccur??
 
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brotherhrolf:
Please pray for Our Lady of Prompt Succor to help the city of my ancestors. It was to OLPS that the citizens of New Orleans prayed during the battle of New Orleans. She saved the city from the British. May she save it from the hurricane.
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Thanks tiber 8. Yep I already knew. I sent a pm to dumspirospero in which I remarked that asking for the intercession of OLPS during hurricane season used to be part of the prayers of the faithful at Mass at the Cathedral here but for some reason we stopped. I expect this will be changed.
 
We’re praying for you all!!

You take care of yourselves down there!!
 
Praying!!! We were missed by Charlie by just a hair last year. Praying for the people that have no means to leave and the elderly that will just believe that they can ride it out in their homes or trailiers! We made a split second decision for our family in the 20 min. prior to Charlie and it was the right one-we were okay, but other people made decisions and it cost them their lives. Pray for God’s will and the comfort of Our Lady.
 
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