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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI've checked in with most of my Louisiana folks.
Some are evacuating farther north in La. to family, and some to family in central Miss. Some have generators and are staying put. They know the risks. At least most of my 11 great-grandchildren will be far enough away I think.
My mother (98) and her husband in Baton Rouge should be ok. They have a generator and somebody is checking on them.
There's nothing I can do but wait along with everybody else.
Deuxcents
(16,353 posts)Know the risks but this one, on the anniversary of Katrina, looks just as monstrous. I hope your family is safe.
samnsara
(17,650 posts)...when Katrina hit I was also watching the NOLA cams ..up until it went black.
Hope your family stays safe!
update.. the rains beginning to fall heavy on Bourbon Street right now
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)said the roads were jammed anyway. They survived Katrina and have everything as prepared as possible at this point. Now it is just a waiting game.
Croney
(4,671 posts)May their luck and your people's luck hold out this time too.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,941 posts)Metry Lakefront. 😂😂 I made a Metairie GFS wind field time lapse movie. Looks like 50mph sustained winds here, as of 6am Saturday forecast track.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Scrivener7
(51,025 posts)Croney
(4,671 posts)I have another one in Florida, and there are my siblings' families...
It's mind-boggling.
colorado_ufo
(5,738 posts)IronLionZion
(45,545 posts)Louisiana just can't catch a break
Goodheart
(5,345 posts)It's slow moving, bumper to bumper. I'm staying put. I won't even bother with a generator this time. If we lose power I'm heading out of state after the storm.
Croney
(4,671 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,856 posts)My sister lives there. Lots of friends too. They know they are going to get hammered.
The last hurricanes I dealt with were Katrina and Rita in 2005. That was enough for me. Moved to Kentucky in 2006. Back to BR in 2014 and back to Kentucky in 2017. The big flood in 2016 was a big factor in moving back to KY. The weather is just getting worse and worse there.
colorado_ufo
(5,738 posts)almost all my family "peeps" are in New Orleans/Metairie. Sis in Mississippi. Sis-in-law in Shreveport. Some fam in Baton Rouge. Family has been in that area since the mid 1800s, before that up Pennsylvania way, clear back to the birth of the nation. Hubby and I are the stray sheep who moved away to Colorado a year after we got married. Miss the family, but still feel we made a good move. We started a whole new branch of the family here. Lived through too many hurricanes and rotten politicians.
Croney
(4,671 posts)I've been in MA for almost 50 years. Colorado is a place I'd live.
colorado_ufo
(5,738 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,837 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,941 posts)Unless you left at 4am, its a parking lot. Whole neighborhoods are still wiped out from Katrina, nobodys playing around for this one. You can see monuments to a hurricanes deadly force everywhere you drive here.
Croney
(4,671 posts)malaise
(269,200 posts)Alice Kramden
(2,168 posts)I'm watching other news sources as well, of course - very concerned about that hurricane
Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)I hate the wait.
I've heard hotels around town are filling up with people who live on the coast directly.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)As is my personal practice, Im praying for those in Idas path. I will add your family members to those prayers.
Try to breathe