Watching the hurricane

[Catty1]

Oh LAURA...you and your babies...what room in the house is the safest? Couldn't you and two LARGE pet carriers get on one of the buses?

PRAYERS - everyone, I hope you are safe and ok...we're all here on the other side of this, you're in our thoughts!

LAURA - is your manager's shop cat safe???

[chocolatepuppy]

Prayers headed out to everyone in the path of this storm. How scary this must be Laura. Please stay safe.

[Laura's Babies]

Catty-Toby is safe up there. He offers that to us also to stay in during storms for those who want to leave their mobile homes and have nowhere else to go. It never got even a bump during Katrina and it has withstood many hurricanes.

My concerns about traveling is Amy and how bad she stresses and how the stress effects her. Today she looks bad, like the pending weather already is bothering her. It will be stressful enough taking her to Rie's and that is only 2 miles away from me. I would say taking her anywhere on a bus would just be extreemly stressful on us all.. I have a big van but I just don't think it is safe to get out on that highway in all that traffic alone with 4 screaming cats. I freak in bad traffic without 4 screaming cats as it is. If I was the real brave sort, I would load up and go to Eddies in Virginia but I am to much a chicken to do that, especially alone.

What worries me the worst is all the stuff people have outside around me and nobody remembers all that stuff is flying wepons during storms like hurricanes. NOBODY picks up and puts things away and you think they would know better! I have already picked up outside my house and shoved everything in my shed.

[molucass]

What worries me the worst is all the stuff people have outside around me and nobody remembers all that stuff is flying wepons during storms like hurricanes. NOBODY picks up and puts things away and you think they would know better! I have already picked up outside my house and shoved everything in my shed.

That is so true, we were looking around outside in the neighborhood, and people who already evacuated left all kinds of stuff outside, not tied down... We went outside and made sure everything was secured, tied down, and whatever would fit was in the sheds.

Please be safe, we will continue our prayers for you, and everyone else in the path of this storm.

My parents still say we are just going to ride it out.. But we have plenty of crates & some extras just in case, so all the dogs & my moms cat have a place to be inside the house in case it gets bad.
Someone across the street from the house we are supposed to be moving into evacuated earlier while we were there, and they left their dogs behind.. The 2nd time we went over there I called animal control while we were there to report it, because I could hear the dogs barking.. I hope they were able to do something.

[Catty1]

OMG - molucass, do you have a couple of extra carriers for those two dogs? I am just thinking that Animal Control is pretty overwhelmed right now.

I don't know WHAT those owners were thinking!

[phesina]

Prayers for Laura and everyone else in the storm's path that you will make it through this all right.

[Laura's Babies]

I just checked the companies web sight and there are none of our boats in or below New Orleans, they must have brought them on up already. There are several that stay at river mile 50 (50 miles from the gulf) that put together empty barges as they are unloaded and there is always 1 to 2 of our big ones down there. Looks like they have brought them up to Reserve or they are on their way there.

Contraflow starts at 4am they said on the news tonight. You can go to this page and scroll down and select southeast and we are in that area, right next to the town Gonzales between I-10 & I-12. http://www.nbc33tv.com/weather/radar Watch it on there as it is happening.. YIKES!

[slick]

I was watching the 6pm news tonight and I'm worried about all of you. My brother is headed to the Florida Keys on Sunday for 3 weeks and he doesn't seem to be that worried.

I'm sending prayers out to all of you that you stay safe in the coming days.

[molucass]

OMG - molucass, do you have a couple of extra carriers for those two dogs? I am just thinking that Animal Control is pretty overwhelmed right now.

I don't know WHAT those owners were thinking!

I walked over there to see if the dogs were in the back yard or whatever, but they were in the house.. I tried to look in the windows and etc, or listen for people talking.. No one was home, I knocked on the doors very loudly.. All I heard was the dogs barking.. I've seen them out before, and both of them are small chihuahua mixes.
I can't break into their house, so I'm not sure what to do.. I called the humane society in the next town too. Hopefully someone will be able to do something.

[Laura's Babies]

Rie called me and the storm is moving faster than expected and she is wanting me to pack up and come on over so me and the babies will be headed out SOON. She said the weather is suppose to start this evening/tonight..

My Captain did call me to check on what I am going to do and wants me to keep in touch. (He is like a mother hen when it comes to his crew, even under normal conditions)

My brother called from Oregan, the one is disaster management to see what we were doing.. Also my sister in Washington state has called.. Small wonder I haven't gotten much done!

I have the van backed up to the house and am loading it now, when done loading, I am leaving my home with the prayer that I have one to come back to! I may check in PT again from Ries.

[Suki Wingy]

Two of my friends just started at Tulane, and they're not happy at all. They've already evacuated.

[RICHARD]

I wonder if Ray Nagin learned anything the last time.


If anything goes wrong he can blame the government.

[Giselle]

I wonder if Ray Nagin learned anything the last time.


If anything goes wrong he can blame the government.

Actually, he's kind of blaming the people.

I watched his speech. It was something like, "You need to be scared. You need to evacuate. We will not rescue you. If you do not evacuate now, it's your responsibility. Nobody will be there. There will be no immediate help". Something like that.

I was a little taken aback by it, but I understand how vital it is for him to effectively evacuate everybody now before the hurricane hits. And I certainly hope that *everybody* evacuates safely and out of harm's way!!! I feel the ominous anxiety already.

Personally, after Katrina, I'm just wondering if anybody paid attention to restoring the wetlands and if those levees are really going to do anything.