Louisiana is set to be *smacked*

[BOZ]

man, this is one bad one. the storm itself is as big as the whole state of LA! i hope as much of the southeastern coast of the US can be evacuated or adequately sheltered as possible...

 

[Del]

*wakes up all bleary eyed and goes for a decaf and comes back*

So is New Orleans still there? I wonder if Anderson Cooper will go risk his life again for CNN ...

 

[Del]

My aunt actually works for the Sun Herald so I know she'd be privy to all of this. Thank you for your efforts!

Hey no worries. I'm glad this time around all the info passing and crunching of the facts might actually help. Last time this happened when people were being flown into skycrapers, it was all after the fact.

 

[jaerdaph]

My thoughts and prayers are with any EN Worlders in the path of Katrina.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I’ve got family in Biloxi. My work today should have involved telephone calls to several places in Mississippi and New Orleans. Today is mostly long nail-biter where nothing is accomplished.

We’re getting used, or at least inured, to hurricanes here in the South. Ivan, Dennis, Katirna and any others that happen to stomp on us. The excitement evidenced by throngs cleaning out stores seems to diminish each time.

(Comments about God clipped for fear moderators will come to my house and beat me up).

 

[fett527]

I’ve got family in Biloxi. My work today should have involved telephone calls to several places in Mississippi and New Orleans. Today is mostly long nail-biter where nothing is accomplished.

We’re getting used, or at least inured, to hurricanes here in the South. Ivan, Dennis, Katirna and any others that happen to stomp on us. The excitement evidenced by throngs cleaning out stores seems to diminish each time.

(Comments about God clipped for fear moderators will come to my house and beat me up).

My thoughts are with your family as well. I'm still not seeing any reports from the Gulfport/Biloxi areas. Starting to see live reports from New Orleans and even Mobile.

 

[tarchon]

(edited out the entire thing)

Here's my take on it, along with this prelude: I have settled happily into my own beliefs, thanks. I am hardly a god-commenter at any rate, unless you choose to ask me specifically what those beliefs are, and I doubt many here have a clue what my beliefs are.

Now: Please don't take up a religious discussion in this thread. People are nervous and scared and offering up hopes and well-wishes towards others in the best ways they know how at a time of high stress. If it bothers you that some people are too religious in this thread, then let us worry about it.

While EN World has a nice strict "No religion policy," in times of great stress and emotional anxiety, we've moderated that to allow people to send their best thoughts in the way that they know how, whether offering hopes, prayers, well-wishes or burning candles. What isn't allowed is, "God spared us because..." or "God is bringing this down on us/them because..."

Similarly, I don't want to see this thread become a hotbed of discussion about the proof of global warming. That comes way to close to the "No politics policy."

I have no intention of closing this thread right now, as I'm hoping that EN Worlders in the affected area can come by and see that we've been thinking about and support them; and to let them let us know that they're all right. I'm still waiting, in addition to Fett's word for word from at least one other fairly active ENWorlder/NTL'er. This is definitely the right place for it. But please don't make things more difficult for the moderators than you need to, thanks.

--Dinkeldog
ENWorld Moderator

 

[BOZ]

(removed comments after Dinkledog edited out the above post)

 

[ForceUser]

My brother lives in New Orleans. He's safe at a friend's house in Baton Rouge, but he's had to make peace with the fact that everything he owns is in his truck. My parents live near Baton Rouge too. They considered evacuating until they saw that Interstate 10 was a parking lot between New Orleans and Lafeyette; over 1 million residents of New Orleans evacuated.

Higher tropical sea surface temperatures increase the potential power of each hurricane. Since 1995, each year has seen above-average numbers of Atlantic hurricanes. In fact 1995 to 2000 saw the highest average number of major hurricanes for any six-year period since 1944, when reconnaissance aircraft flights began to make records more reliable. During the last eight hurricane seasons the Atlantic seems to have shifted into hyperactivity, spawning many more storms, some of them of terrifying intensity. Given that the 1990s had been the hottest decade in recorded history, could this be a sign of global warming?

 

[Del]

*moves into his more spacious room with not only cable internet but cable tv, a punching bag from his cousin in here before, and a cooler temperature overall because its below ground. Score 2 points for Del the geek. Studio Room ver. 5.0 is in effect*

The eggheads said that global warming would lead to worse and worse equatorial storms. This just proves them right.