COTTON...and others

[sparky3229]

Cotton-I know you are not on right now-you better be in higher ground-or in anther state by now! I just cannot imagine what is going to happen to New Orleans and the whole area. We were just there a few months back, so I really feel even worse about this storm since I feel a kinda connection with the area now...I am glad that I got a chance to enjoy it there. I just want to say we are all thinking of you here, and be safe...and the same to all of you in that area that have been posting here. Our thoughts are with you.

[GoinCruisin]

Cotton posted yesterday and had made it to Hattiesburg, after getting battened down...

[sparky3229]

OMG-good to hear. I have been reading about this hurricane and I just feel so awful and so helpless. I am glad she is safe, yet property damage etc...OMG:eek:

[selucrey]

sparky, thanks for the concern. The folks in New Orleans are really going to need the thoughts and prayers very soon. New Orleans as we know it may not be there next week.

[GoinCruisin]

sparky, thanks for the concern. The folks in New Orleans are really going to need the thoughts and prayers very soon. New Orleans as we know it may not be there next week.

 

I still think you should get out Dan :( Are you tired of hearing that yet???? :p You are driving me to DRINK!!!!!!!

 

Hope everyone that is not stubborn and hard headed gets out and heads for higher ground!!! Lots of prayers going out that way, especially to those that have no mode of transportation :( I'm going to miss NOLA... I think you are right, it's going to be quite a different place after tomorrow...

[zydecocruiser]

I'm wondering if Cotton's daughter got out :confused:

[GoinCruisin]

I'm wondering if Cotton's daughter got out :confused:

 

I thought her daughter lived in CA??? She was worried her son wouldn't leave, and he finally ended up going to Hattiesburg yesterday...

[zydecocruiser]

I thought her daughter lived in CA??? She was worried her son wouldn't leave, and he finally ended up going to Hattiesburg yesterday...

 

One is in CA, one lives in the French Quarter.

 

A slow moving Cat 4 simulation:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/surge/new_orleans.shtml

[dan40]

Good luck to Cotton and all others in harms way.

 

Dan

[CruiseFever]

You got that right Dan

 

Just watching this develop on television is scary enough.

 

We'll be praying for Cotton and everyone else affected.

[OCruisers]

Our thoughts certainly are with EVERYONE (even 200 miles inland can feel hurricane force winds) in the PATH of Katrina.... :(

 

OCruisers :o (worried)

[waterbound]

Just wanted to say our thoughts and prayers are with everyone that is being affected by this Hurricane.. Very heart wrenching!

[momof4boys]

God be with everyone in Katrina's way!

[L2J]

Just got a news blip that the roof of the Superdome is leaking :(

[GoinCruisin]

Just got a news blip that the roof of the Superdome is leaking :(

 

Yup :( Part of the roof started coming apart and is leaking... they said they can look up and see daylight. They lost power earlier this morning, no AC.. it's going to be a long few days for these folks...The roof on the Superdome was built after the wind testing, so they worried that this might be a problem... They said the bathroom situation is going to get very bad... Very glad these people are safe, and hopefully they can maintain civility in there, it has to be very difficult :(

[bsdmhutch]

Just got a news blip that the roof of the Superdome is leaking :(

 

They are also saying that the pumps in NOLA are not working right now and they may not get to fix them until AFTER the rain stops.

[zydecocruiser]

Yep, pumps are down. Reports of one levee breeched - sounded like in the 9th Ward.

[DreadPirateRobert]

Just got a news blip that the roof of the Superdome is leaking :(

 

I was really surprised to hear it was being used as a shelter. It seems like something with such a large profile, even with a dome roof, would get torn apart in huricane force winds.

[zydecocruiser]

They'd showed the holes in the roof - a couple of 6 foot slices. Would be huge for a house but small in relation to the size of the dome. Sounds like people were moved away from 5 sections of seats but the rest are fine.

 

Not looking like this was the big one for New Orleans, but still bad enough.

 

 

At the hotel Le Richelieu in New Orleans' French Quarter, the winds blew open sets of balcony doors shortly after dawn. Seventy-three-year-old Josephine Elow pressed her weight against the broken doors as a hotel employee tried to secure them.

 

"It's not life-threatening," Mrs. Elow said as rain water dripped from her face. "God's got our back."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167289,00.html

 

 

Eye passed to the right of New Orleans, now Mississippi is about to get it.