IF YOU CAN READ THIS EVACUATE THE NEW ORLEANS AREA.

[benburch]

Get off the fucking computer. RUN.

You have maybe 14 (EDIT: More like four hours for the outer bands of severe weather ) hours before it will be too late to go anywhere.

Get out.

NOW.

You no longer have time to board windows.

You no longer have time to save property.

Get yourself and your family and as many others as you can carry into your car fill it with gas and get out.

If you have no car, get to the Amtrak station and get on a train.

Hitchhike if you have to.

New Orleans will most likely be under water by this time tomorrow.

[BayouBengal07]

1. Awww fuck

I just remembered my PS2 is only a foot off the ground in our house...

[Cassandra]

23. They're still selling them.

You can get another.

[KyndCulture]

2. EXACTLY!!!

I don't think we've ever seen a disaster like the one about to happen.

[Roxy66]

4. Yet, Bushit is still on Vacation!!!

What a prick

[Skink]

11. He'll be flying around in a helicopter look'n all menacing when it is safe

[flyarm]

5. andrew..please get out!! n/t

[soleft]

3. I don't understand why the Gov, or the Red Cross, or SOMEBODY!

Isn't evacuating the people who don't have the resources to leave!

Superdome? This is bullshit!

You mean FEMA doesn't have money to get some buses to people without cars?

[Roxy66]

6. Whats going to happen to the people in the Hospitals..they arent

under the mandatory evacuation

[leeroysphitz]

15. My aunt

is an RN and lives outside of Mandeville (walking distance from the causeway). She is on duty until midnight and says she'll be fired if she leaves and aprox half the staff have been evacuated and the rest, including janitorial staff, are moving patients to the super dome...

[flyingfysh]

7. the National Guard is probably all in Iraq

Bush's war comes before saving lives at home. We have to keep our priorities straight.

[Solly Mack]

9. Read this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4482567

[qanda]

10. I just saw a report on CNN that absolutely broke my heart

They showed a man downtown, with all his belongings, sitting on a bench. He probably doesn't even know or care that a storm is coming.

[abluelady]

14. FEMA falls under Homeland Security Now

So let's not expect too much from them.

[Endangered Specie]

8. Actually you have probably 4 hours less than from landfall.

they will have to close the routes eventually, and right now there are long backups.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

16. Hey EndangeredSpecie- has your family gotten out ok? (n/t)

[Endangered Specie]

18. Yup they are long gone from NO...

thanks for checking :hi:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

19. Good. Glad they're safe!

:hi:

[sam sarrha]

12. just said ALL wood frame apartment lo rise buildings will be destroyed

1/2 of all WELL BUILT houses will suffer serious roof damage, the city will have 35 FEET of water in it

it will destroy the entire electrical grid for the state of LA

a minimum of 45,000 people will drown plus the ones killed by debree..

they said all business's in the area will be shut down many factories will be totally lost

someone had their head up their ass and was napping..

25% of all the nations oil imports goes thru New Orleans, not to mention our domestic production.

this was a big F*ck Up... they knew it was coming

[SaveAmerica]

17. Where did you hear all that? I hope they are wrong!!

[Cassandra]

27. Maybe this is enough of a national emergency for Cheney...

and he won't feel he has to manufacture one.

BTW, it's spelled debris.

[lonestarnot]

13. This is certainly a devastating tragedy of mother nature....

get out now people please get out!

[theHandpuppet]

20. LATEST JUST IN: Sustained Winds 187 mph, pressure 902 mb!!!

OH...
MY...
GOD.

[geomon666]

21. Those are flight level winds

Not ground winds.

[Roxy66]

22. The Dome wont withstand those kinds of winds, will it?

[benburch]

24. Maybe.

But likely not the tornados that are all through the eye wall area at this time and the wind-driven debris.

[Roxy66]

26. Ben...we are watching a disaster happen in front of our eyes

I just cant imagine what it would be like to be there with my children and not be able to leave

[benburch]

28. FEMA is dropping the ball.

They should have had every boxcar in the area into a train and packed with people to head north by now.

[merbex]

31. You are right: the gov't should have ahad a plan to evacuate

the whole city regardless of whether people had their own transportation

To just consign 100,00 people to the elements and a "shit you're outta luck" is disgraceful and inhumane in what most of the people like to call THE WEALTHIEST NATION ON EARTH

[benburch]

32. Commandeering a freight would not take rocket science.

Just call the railroad and tell them that it must happen. This is a port. There will be empty cars. There will be at least switching engines.

[Fleshdancer]

25. kick

Do we know of any DUers in NO right now?

[Rainscents]

30. Swamp Rat was leaving with his disable father at noon NO timezone.

I hope he'll make it out saftly... I am very worry for him and his father.

[Fleshdancer]

35. I wonder if he has a cell phone

I just wish we had a more immediate way of knowing if he and his father are safe.

:cry:

[benburch]

29. Wind gusts to 200 MPH now reported. nt

[Pithy Cherub]

33. There is gridlock on the roads out

and it would be heartbraking to know people are in effin' traffick jams and not able to get out. The other thing is that if they go north and east the storm will be right on their heels. The size of the storm actually looks about 50% the size of the Gulf and it is now comming on to the warmest waters :cry:

I really, really, REALLY want to be able to post about the near miss scenario by Tuesday!

Godspeed to everyone!

[benburch]

34. Outer bands showing on regional radar now.

http://www.weatherunderground.com/radar/mixedcomposite.asp?region=d4&size=2x