<p>Son’s friend at Xavier got out on her flight and was home by 5pm E. Everyone is relieved.
The balance of kids in the NO area are in my prayers.</p>
<p>Sitting here in Baton Rouge, we are out of the expected “eye” but still way too close, and surrounded by evacuees who have no idea what they will have left. It is getting more and more difficult to distract myself from the dire predictions. S should be well on his way out of Jackson with another Tulane family heading to Maine, but we have not heard from him in several hours. No reason to worry, but the lack of communication is tough.</p>
<p>This from someone who knows she will be back to normal soon. Cannot begin to fathom the feelings and worries of those who do not have that reassurance.</p>
<p>If the radar picture is accurate, the “siege” has begun… May God be with them and everyone who is standing vigil tonight.</p>
<p>It souds awful on CNN , with thousands of people not having transportation to leave the area, and hunkering down for the night in the football stadium. I had no idea that 70% of NO is below sea level.
I really feel for parents who have just dropped off their kids to area colleges.
Prayers go out in everyone in the area.</p>
<p>I had no idea that Katrina was so serious. My prayers are with all of the people in its path. I just pray once it its land it dies down and is not catastrophic. Please keep us updated if you can as to how you and your kids are faring.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurricane.html[/url]”>http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurricane.html</a></p>
<p>The National Weather Service has revised their predictions again. Apparently, the most active months are still ahead.</p>
<p><a href=“http://mediahopper.com/portal.htm[/url]”>http://mediahopper.com/portal.htm</a></p>
<p>A station called NBC-15 is broadcasting from Mobile, AL, and Pensacola, FL, for those of you with broadband who want updates.</p>
<p>Just a quick note to say that my son and the 7 other TEMS members made it to Jackson, MS and will stay there for the night. A decision will be made later on whether to move further west or not.</p>
<p>Prayers for all concerned. I’ll take our quakes any day. This looks ghastly.</p>
<p>As a 20-year Californian (although we moved away just before the 1989 Bay Area big one) now sitting in Baton Rouge, I recall how people say the bad thing about earthquakes is there is no advance warning.</p>
<p>Here in Louisiana, an evacuee from New Orleans, I can say that anticipation is HE<em>L</em>L. It did get us out of there, so obviously it helps. Does nothing for the psyche, though, or the worries about how bad it will be and how dire the consequences.</p>
<p>I’ve got to agree that I’d much rather deal with quakes. I remember when the 94 Northridge Quake hit (I was 8 at the time, but remember it very well), as bad as that was I did not have to sit around waiting for it to happen all day!</p>
<p>I looked at that link; it is authentic, but it’s important to look at where it’s located. Plaquemines Parish is that part of Louisiana that sticks out as a very thin peninsula from the toe of the boot. Unfortunately, it truly is likely to sustain the kind of damage described, and the people in that area may suffer greatly. However, it is not New Orleans, Mobile, or any of the big cities or school locations mentioned here. A post of that information should make clear who is really being warned.</p>
<p>Concerneddad, so glad your son is out of the area. Alongfortheride, I understand your son concerns…we have friends here whose kids go to Tulane. They are sitting at home and anguishing about this too!</p>
<p>I hear a hundred thousand couldn’t evacuate because they didnt own cars- predominately minorities and the poor</p>
<p>Also, what is going to happen in the aftermath with so many reservists and national guardsmen not available…aren;t they the ones that often go in to keep security and help with cleanup? </p>
<p>Sigh, what a mess all around…it like our own tsunami…</p>
<p>If anyone can make it to Dallas, I’ve got room.</p>
<p>CNN is reporting the roof of the Superdome has been breached and a portion is missing. </p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Citygirlsmom,
I heard that 1,000 Guardsmen had been called up to patrol and then deal with the aftermath. The number who couldn’t evacuate is swinging all over the place, but 100,000 sounds a little high. The Superdome can take 76,000, and it’s not filled to capacity.</p>
<p>I hope people living farther north on the banks of the Mississippi are prepared to deal with possible flooding, too. I remember a hurricane a few years ago that caused the Mississippi to temporarily flow north, though I can’t recall its name.</p>
<p>One million could be homeless</p>
<p>1000 seems pretty smallm, but I am glad some are going to be available, my Ds HS has more kids in it Really sad</p>
<p>If you didn’t have a car, how would you get out?</p>
<p>I just heard from son. Everyone in Jackson is fine. The TEMS crew is going on another supply run, and all will hunker down in Jackson and wait out the storm. The reports they are hearing are matching the TV reports – things are not as bad in N.O. as they could have been, or as predicted.</p>
<p>If you didn’t have a car, you’d rent one before they ran out, fly out before the airport closed, or take a train or bus before they stopped service. Unfortunately, a lot of people couldn’t find or afford one of these ways out. :/</p>