Just talked to my brother at New Orleans Airport

[yella_dawg]

He's the "maintenance guy" for a fleet of luxury motor homes leased to various government agencies involved in disaster coordination.

"You know what's coming?"

"Well, they told us it might rain quite a bit."

"New Orleans was evacuated yesterday. Why are you still there?"

"Well, the airport is on high ground, and the evacuation didn't include us."

"Are you aware that this storm has the potential to exceed Katrina?"

"No... It's supposed to hit in Texas, isn't it?"

"Maybe, maybe not. Right now, it's heading for Houston, but it could turn at any moment."

"We're ready to leave if it gets bad."

"I'll call you back tomorrow."



He's in the bullseye and they're bullshitting him. He has no radio or TV signal. I'm amazed his cell phone works. And the Feds are downplaying Rita.

We are so fucked if this is the caliber of professional running the day-to-day operations of this country.

[hippiechick]

1. NOLA is in the bullseye ?

:shrug: All the NOAA maps I've seen show Rita clearing NOLA and hitting directly at Galveston ...

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. He should be fine where he is

Even the 5 day path is no where near New Orleans at this point.

[cdsilv]

7. U mmm - NOLA is 'east of the Eye'

...which means that it will get the south winds and the major
storm surge. Which it can't absorb. No matter if they only have CAT1 winds, there will be a storm surge and a significant rainfall.

I'm in P'cola and we've already had some interesting wind gusts and
a rather sever thunderstorm, likely from the outer bands of Rita.

I think the storm should have been name Margarita since it's headed for Tejas.

[meisje]

3. He is not in the bullseye

The levees will break again though

[cornermouse]

4. Re: caliber... It is and we are.

[Egalitariat]

5. If he's in New Orleans, he's nowhere near the bullseye***

nm

[yella_dawg]

6. Tell you what. When it's your brother, we'll let you define bullseye

okay?

[merwin]

9. Huh? Bullseye is defined as the center of the storm

He's definately NOT in the center of the storm path... more like the outskirts. However, he is going to get hit by at least some of it, and the way the wind is going that 'some of it' is going to be pretty big.

[eleny]

10. You did good getting in touch with him

Rita is so big that it was wise to call him. Now that he knows, he can take action to try and get more information.

[tedoll78]

8. Hmm..

It's my parents, grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. They all live within a few miles of that airport. They're home right now, cleaning-up the flood damage to their houses.

I'll call the bullseye: they're nowhere near it.

;)