Most Parishes have said you can come home beginning at Dawn on Wednesday. However, expect to come home to no power, Few grocery stores open, Few gas stations open and a dusk to dawn curfew. Translation...bring your own supplies and a full tank of gas. I rather wait an extra day so Entergy can get more power restored.
Weatherwise, it should be better than Tuesday (stormy at times, numerous warnings) with more sunshine & fewer mainly PM T-Storms. Temps are still hot...90-ish so without air-conditioning, sleeping will be difficult.
The tropics remain active but NOTHING is near us nor expected to be near us for another 7-10 days. We'll deal with Hanna & Ike IF they ever get close to the Gulf. For nor, let's relax and recover.
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Bob i would like to know if Ike or Josephine could be a threat to New Orleans and areas below it such as plaqumines parish? or is it still to early?
I think the officals did a really good job (not terriffic) on getting everyone out of harms way. It was a much better response to the situation than Katrina. What they did not do even a good job at was the re-entry. Right now I am sitting in a ton of traffic coming out of Jackson. I am part of the Tier 1 entry but decided to wait until today because I still had no power at my home yesterday. I can promise you that not even all of Tier 1 and 2 have finished coming back in and they are already letting the general population back in. And for Nagin to make a decision to just let people come back while other parishes are still trying to come in was just plain stupid. Just like there is a phased evacuation plan, there should be the same for the re-entry. I know everyone is anxious to get back, and rightfully so. But without the basic needs, why come back yet? This was poor management of things by our officials. This is where FEMA should be stepping in. For those people that were running out of money for hotels and food and such. Sorry if I am being long winded here. It just really frustrates me the way this was handled. I have been hearing so many people say they will never leave again. Is that really the kind of attitude we need our people to have? I hope that everyone faired well and did not get a lot of damage to their homes. Good Luck!
Well when you have 1.9 million people that evacuated southern Louisiana now matter how you do it the traffic will be horrific. As far as running out of money for hotels that is why for many years financial planners as well as the average joe has been preaching having an emergency fund set aside. Those that say the won't evacuate for the next one is the BIG problem and it could be right around the corner which we should know more by Monday.
Hey Bob-
You're my new hero.
Your coverage of Gustav, as well as Ike, was calm, cool and collective, and you were smart enough not to jump on the "panic Saturday" bandwagon.
While our elected officials were freakin' out, calling Gustav "The storm of the century," you stuck with your original concept that Gustav would explode in the Gulfstream, and weaken again when approaching Louisiana, and that's exactly what it did.
What bothers me is that with our elected officials panicing as they did, they'll now be percieved as "crying wolf," and the next time a major killer hurricane heads our way, folks will say "Oh, the elected officials always say thet, we'll be fine." Then massive grizzly death occurs. NOT GOOD!!! Our elected officials need to learn to be, and act on the same page as the meteorolgists, so that they'll be no more occasion of "crying Wolf."
Thanks Bob, I owe you a beer...
-Phil
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