Sunday night, midnight. I'm gonna make this one short.
At last look, Gustav was a little over 200 miles from New Orleans and bearing down at 16 mph. Winds are at 115 with gusts to 140. The eye will most likely make landfall early tomorrow (today?) just west of NOLA.
Looks like most people heeded the warning this time and got the heck out, though we saw some people on TV who just refused to leave, most giving bad excuses for staying. One guy said he didn't see anything on TV that sounded bad enough to leave. I guess all those dead people in the Carribean didn't impress him much. Or his memory's so short he doesn't remember what happened last time.
We've got some friends in New Orleans and I'm wondering what's happening to them. We met them when they fled Katrina. They eventually moved back to N.O. to try to help rebuild, and now it's happening all over again. Maybe more on them later.
Maybe we'll all dodge the bullet this time. It's moving fast enough to pass through quickly. There's a good chance it will abate quickly, too, once it hits land.
We'll all keep our fingers crossed.
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