Originally Posted by
Amanda
I know this is off-topic, but it's too important to ignore. I expect we'll wake up to tens of thousands of deaths and tens of billions in property damage tomorrow morning with this Hurricane Katrina. I read up on the impact of a Category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans a few years back. Expect it to have the same effect on southeast Louisiana that the tsunami had on coastal communities in Southeast Asia. Unless the storm dies or quickly changes course in the next seven or eight hours, we're looking at the worst day our country has seen since 9-11 :(
Yeah, I was just in the Big Easy for the RTDA a couple of weeks back. Its kind of sad to think of what may happen tomorrow morning. Its one of my favorite cities in the US, I can’t imagine it not being there in 24 hours.
I remember watching a documentary on the Weather Channel a few years back where they discussed the possibility of a CAT 4/5 hitting New Orleans directly. It won’t be pretty if it hits it just right.
I got a buddy who is basically stuck in the city. He moved over to find work about a month ago and his car broke down a couple of weeks back. He is dead broke and hitting up the Super Dome for shelter (At least I hope he still is, he can be a hard headed f&$k sometimes).
I'm further east in Tallahassee, Florida. The models originally showed it was going to hit us before it crossed over into the Gulf. Thank god it didn't. We are about due for a direct hit though.
My thoughts and prays to everyone who will be affected by this storm.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. -- Carl Sagan
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