Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an immediate evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans

[DRoseDARs]

In this hemisphere, the northeast portion of a hurricane has the strongest winds. Katrina is going to take a swipe at everything in a north-northeast path from NO up through Mississippi and northwest Alabama into Tennesse and Kentucky. Everyone between the Appalachias and the Mississippi is going to get drenched.

[DRoseDARs]

And I heard this storm is twice the physical size of past ones, like the one that swallowed Galvaston, Florida. Charles?

[H Tower]

I'm pretty sure that is projected, the hurrican isn't supposed to reach landfall until 8am CDT monday

[DRoseDARs]

Well, that is the Weather Channel's projection.

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
One article I read mentioned a musician who was remaining in his Bourbon Street hotel. I don't know how the hell he'll live through this.

He said he saw the line for the Super Dome and decided it wasn't worth it. What?! Waiting in line for even a whole day isn't worth a huge decrease in your risk of dying? Nice...

Yeah, I read that at work. Frickin' insane, I tell ya.

He said if he was going to die, it would be better to die with a cold beer in his hands, or something like that. *snort* Nothing against beer, but if I were him, I'd rather hole up in the Superdome and enjoy a nice, cold brewski later in the week once this storm's blown by.

Gatekeeper

[H Tower]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper


Yeah, I read that at work. Frickin' insane, I tell ya.

He said if he was going to die, it would be better to die with a cold beer in his hands, or something like that. *snort* Nothing against beer, but if I were him, I'd rather hole up in the Superdome and enjoy a nice, cold brewski later in the week once this storm's blown by.

Gatekeeper

without power, I doubt there is going to be much cold beer laying about for the drinking.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

This seems as good a place as any to post these lyrics. It's a Randy Newman song, but the best version of it was recorded by a son of the Crescent City, Aaron Neville.

Louisiana 1927

(Randy Newman)

What has happened down here, is the winds have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
It rained real hard, and it rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day, the river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood, some people got away alright
The river had busted through clear down to Placker Mine
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

Louisiana, Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away
Oh Louisiana, Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

President Coolidge come down, in a railroad train
With his little fat man with a note pad in his hand
President say "little fat man, oh isn't it a shame,
What the river has done to this poor farmer's land"

Oh Louisiana, Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, you're trying to wash us away
Oh Louisiana, oh Louisiana
They're trying to wash us away, oh Lord, they're trying to wash us away
They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

I rang in the Millenial New Year in New Orleans; ate at Commander's Palace for the first and only time on the same trip. God, I hope the dire predictions are wrong.

[Theben]

Never got the chance to eat at the Commander Palace; I didn't know at the time I needed a jacket. Was planning on returning next year, with jacket in hand.

[Edan]

Just heard that Katrina has weakened to a CAT 4 hurricane, but still very serious.

[Ted Striker]

GOOD LUCK NORHWLAHNS!!!!

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Edan
Just heard that Katrina has weakened to a CAT 4 hurricane, but still very serious.

Every little bit helps...

[The Mad Monk]

Art Bell has received reports that WLL New Orleans is off the air.

[Drake Tungsten]

The webcast is still working.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Edan

there was like 10,000 in the afternoon with 2,000 on slow moving lines to enter (police were searching people for weapons and alcohol).

Weapons, I understand, but alcohol? How else could you stand several days or even weeks trapped in a big barn filled with total boredom?

[techumseh]

From the Tragically Hip:

New Orleans Is Sinking Lyrics

Alright!

Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete
Under skies all smoky blue green
I can't forsake a dixie dead shake
So we danced the sidewalk clean
My memory is muddy
What's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking man
And I don't wanna swim

Colonel Tom, what's wrong? what's going on?
You can't tie yourself up for a deal
He said, Hey north you're south shut your big mouth,
You gotta do what you feel is real
Ain't got no picture postcards, ain't got no souvenirs
My baby, she don't know me when I'm thinking bout those years

Pale as a light bulb hanging on a wire
Sucking up to someone just to stoke the fire
Picking out the highlights of the scenery
Saw a little cloud that looked a little like me

I had my hands in the river
My feet back up on the banks
Looked up to the lord above
And said, hey man thanks
Sometimes I fell so good, I gotta scream
She said Gordie baby I know exactly what you mean
She said, she said, I swear to god she said

My memory is muddy
What's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim

Swim!