Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?

Proof  •  August 30, 2008

This is one of those things that you would never wish on anyone while at the same time saying please, please go somewhere else.
They’re saying it’ll be a category 3 by the time it gets here, which means honkin’ winds and a great big fat tidal surge just to add icing to the cake. It might, maybe, be swinging a bit to the west from where we live. Which means that although it may not be as rough on us as it could have been, it’s still going to make someone else miserable.
And we’ll still get our asses kicked.
Sigh.
At least it doesn’t snow here and you can wear t-shirts in January.
Thanks to Hotel for the graphic.

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  • http://Array docdave

    Is this part of Obama’s change? My friends in New Orleans are quite concerned. At least, Louisiana now has a governor who will do something. Jindal has already called out his national guard.

  • 2Hotel9

    08:00, been watching the sat sweeps and she is still tracking west by north. NOAA has upped her to Cat3, with sustained winds of 115mph, the eye tracking between the main Cayman Islands.

    Here is NOAA’s National Hurricane center webpage. You can download tracking maps from the link at bottom of page.

  • 2Hotel9

    Brokewings have a problem with weather. Natives don’t. We just don’t enjoy it.

  • RebTex

    Ha! Lestat!
    THe DemCon got a couple tornado’s.
    You don’t think the RepCon will let themselves be outdone!
    Not just 1 hurricane..possibly 2 !

  • Pilgrim

    rebtex:

    Looks like we’ll get the wet side here for sure. That’s the side that spins the tornadoes out, as you well know. Good luck, pal.

    Your family leaving? If you’re on the Sabine, then the track is right to you.

    And, Doc: Yeah, we finally have a governor here who doesn’t just sit on his hands and bleat for the feds to save us.

  • Pilgrim

    I just had a briefing at the EOC (yeah, I’m here at midnight – go figure)…..

    This beast could be a category 5 storm by the time it makes landfall, with sustained winds of 165 mph and a tidal surge of 20.4 feet on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.

    Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, Lafourche, and St. Tammany Parishes and some others are ordering mandatory evacuations.

    This ain’t pretty, folks. This thing has the potential to be much bigger than Katrina. The levees in New Orleans probably won’t hold, and Slidell on the north shore will go under again with the tidal surge.

    I’m here at the EOC for the duration. It’s gonna be a long, long week.

  • robert108

    Hopefully, with Jindal as Gov, things will get done right this time. Too bad the hate-filled lefties are playing this against the RNC convention. Sick….
    I hope Gustav decreases in force at it approaches landfall, like hurricanes usually do, and hope the better preparedness works out better for those affected by this natural occurrence.
    Nature isn’t benign.

  • RebTex

    Thank Ya’ll!
    We appreciate the Left’s and Right’s thoughts & Prayers.
    By-gones are by-gones.
    We’ll get with Ya’ll later!

  • 2Hotel9

    Its just a hurricane. Surrenderingt what you own to the government by abandoning it is simply ignorant.

  • 2Hotel9

    Yea, Hancock county in MS and St Tam in LA both lost power in mid afternoon. I watched WLOX13 TV news online several times through the day, they tracked several tornadoes. Just talked to my brother(our man in FEMA) and he says Slidell got only minimal flooding and scattered wind damage. So hopefully Pil is only having to deal with evac related domestic situations.;)

    How is the flood situation in your neck of the woods?

  • RebTex

    I’m on the Sabine 95 miles inland.
    As long as the eye is to my East, I’m OK.
    But if it’s to my West, another Rita for sure

  • Bat One

    Reb-Tex, Pilgrim,

    Y’all be safe out there. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your families.

    Pilgrim,

    Be Careful!

  • RebTex

    We’re in good shape.
    We lost power early yesterday evening & went on back-up power.
    We took over 6″ of rain last night. Luckily, we needed the rain & now the ponds are full!
    Other than a few broken tree tops, we came through unscathed.
    Hopefully, Pilgrim had as good a’ luck

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I see a book potential here. Dog Men Fly In the Wind!

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    That would of course depend on where you are.

    If you’re in the low lands get the heck out.

  • 2Hotel9

    Have not heard anything specific about Slidell, so hopefully Pil is back at the Casa by now, sorting out the wind debris.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    er…Sidney Poitier???

  • RebTex

    THe Slidel area is without power. There was a report of a possible funnel cloud not too far East of there.

  • RebTex

    THanks, Pilgrim.
    Ya’ll lay low. And good luck!
    We’re stayin’ like we did with Kat/Rita.
    I have way too much livestock to try to move.

  • docdave

    yeah, reb, pilgrim, you always have a sanctuary here in DFW if you need it. We house a lot of katrina refuges and can do it again.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I’d hate to be in Pilgrims shoes. You’re on duty at the EOC and not available to watch your own place or help your own out in the case something bad happened.

    Hope things went well for him.

  • RebTex

    We’re just in.
    Our county is mandatory evacuating.
    We have too much to tend to leave.
    AND for those that leave, they can’t get back in until the power is restored.
    That could be a few days to a few weeks.
    I can’t chance it, so we’ll stay.
    And my little one is in the pharmacy locally & will need to be available immediately afterward.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    RebTex be safe this storm looks almost as bad as Katrina. Scarey stuff here… I think we are lucky in ND that we only have to put up with Tornados and Snow Storms.

  • robert108

    That should be: “as it approaches landfall”

  • docdave

    Oooh, Gustavs a force 4 heading for force 5. Keep your heads down, Lousianians. Better yet GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE!!

  • RebTex

    Today, as I was returning from Louisiana, the radio station reported that Beauregard Parish schools would not hold class tuesday nor wednsday. Not because of storm threats, but because their busses were going to be used to evacuate New Orleans.
    I had to chuckle!
    I remember the arrogance last time when they were asked to evacuate on school busses.
    Nagin INSISTED that they weren’t good enough.
    Long story short, the available busses (enough seating to haul a vast majority of the New Orleans residents) wound up being flooded & useless.
    I guess they learned a lesson.
    .
    ..
    Meanwhile, at the DeRidder airport, there are literally THOUSANDS of temporary FEMA housing units that have been picked up from folks.
    THey were deemed un-useable due to a “formaldehide” smell.

  • RebTex

    ‘Preciate that!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Good luck guys, I hope for the best.

  • Hannitized

    God be with you fellah’s! Let’s see what the power of prayer can accomplish! You will have mine.

  • Pilgrim

    Same here. Thanks. We’ll know by Sunday…..

  • RebTex

    THanks, DocDave!
    I think the nursing home is retreating up that way.
    We’ll start moving them out in the morning.

  • Lestat

    I heard they might postpone the Republican Convention.

    God must be a Democrat.

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