HOLY SHIT! New Orleans being evacuated!

carnivore

These guys can't catch a break!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/08/30/gustav.prepare/index.html

carmen

i talked to my sister (a tulane student) last night, she and her room-mates were on their way to Atlanta and had been sitting in traffic for 4 hours. Oh, NOLA, how organized you are..

shishkab

Carmen wrote: i talked to my sister (a tulane student) last night, she and her room-mates were on their way to Atlanta and had been sitting in traffic for 4 hours. Oh, NOLA, how organized you are..

well, when you are evacuating a zillion people i imagine there is going to be a long wait.

my heart goes out to those folks. why can't Gustav find it way to Texas, instead? i hear Crawford is a good place to start...

jah

the only good thing about this is that the RNC is cancelled/postponed

I really feel for NO people. Many don't want to leave this time due to what happened last time. Poor people just starting to barely come back. SMH.

carmen

shishkab wrote: [quote=Carmen]i talked to my sister (a tulane student) last night, she and her room-mates were on their way to Atlanta and had been sitting in traffic for 4 hours. Oh, NOLA, how organized you are..

well, when you are evacuating a zillion people i imagine there is going to be a long wait.

my heart goes out to those folks. why can't Gustav find it way to Texas, instead? i hear Crawford is a good place to start...

they just called the mandatory evacuation so I'm sure it's hell right now...we learned our lesson after Katrina that you should leave at least 24 hours prior to the actual evacuation if you want to get out of the city with any reasonable amount of time. During katrina we left only about 9 hours prior to the mandatory evacuation and it was absolute hell.

Hopefully this time the gas stations actually have fuel. And maybe there will be some govt help for all the cars that break down/overheat. I'm hoping the govt learned something from the absolutely deplorable evacuation "effort" of Katrina, but somehow I'm doubting it.

carnivore

So far right Repugs were praying for rain "of biblical proportions" to come during Obama's speech at the DNC, and now Hurricane Gustave threatens the RNC.



I certainly hope things turn out ok for the people of New Orleans, but the timing of this couldn't be any more ironic.

livetotravel

Here's why Old Man McCain is so worried - here's where he was when Katrina hit....
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/images/20050829-5_p082905pm-0125-515h.html

jah

video of Gustav rollin in. SCARY.

sweet tea

here's a weird thing: a live webcam from a bar in the quarter. refreshes every minute.

http://www.tropicalisle.com/webcam.html

earlier tonight, there was a guy sitting in the middle of the crosswalk. now there's no one.

carnivore

em26

Bastards and their damn cake. :x

Oooh , Mmm , cake. =P~

Excuse me , yeah....um...McCain is just another Bush. If he becomes president , ain't nothing gonna change.

I'm going to bed now.Goodnight. See some of ya'll tomatah.

carnivore

Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses' Teeth

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40525

jah

here is a whole list of working webcams in NO updated every 15 minutes. the one at the bar seems to have stopped working at 6am
http://www.divertednetworks.com/nola/

doctorj

The surge doesn't seem to be living up to its expectations.

pitu

Gustav Information Center ning site http://gustav08.ning.com/
Alerts and Information Regarding Hurricane Gustav

and wiki http://www.gustavwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

(from the good folks that did a post-Katrina organizing site)
fingers crossed that there is less need than 3 years ago...

They are asking for help, doing stuff like updating the rest of the Katrina pages and building a kickass Goggle Map, so if you are skilled and so-inclined, go to the ning site and volunteer