Hurricane Gustav

Cocidius wrote:

yea Tallahassee is pretty nice, been over there a few times. Been watching the news all day, looks like all the levees held this time. And looking at the evacuation effort they did, it would appear everyone has learned a very big lesson from katrina.

I wouldn't really jinx it, there is still plenty of time for the levees to break, the wateris already flowing over a few as I've seen on the news. But they did do a better job with the evacuation so even if it is as bad or worse it won't seem like it.

Bad thing is the govenor was pushing it too much so everyone left in fear.. next hurricane nobody is going to leave there just going to blow it off. He blew it way out of proportion. The areas he was saying would be heavily damaged got no damage. So it's actually bad that it wasnt as bad as everyone was saying. Next time i doubt half the people will leave like this time. But well see here come's Ike now yayy

way better to be prepared and cautious than to end up with a circle jerk like last time....

and i think that's just what everyone's afraid of.... they're over preparing and being ready so that they don't end up looking like idiotic fools who made a big mistake.

Isn't that the governor that said that N.O. would be a chocolate city at the end of the day?

i wanted to punch him in the face. honest to god. I cant believe people still listen to that crap.

that was the mayor of New orleans that said that, i think xemos is talking about bobby jindal, the governor of Louisiana.

Yea it wasnt as bas as everyone thought, but when it was almost a cat 5 and wasnt even in the very warm waters of the gulf yet, there was a good reason to do everything they did. Thankfully it weakened, and im sure some people will stay next time, but maybe most of them won't.

Yeah the mayor naggin said the chocolate city crap.. but funny part is the afro americans ( no offense) are always the LAST to come back after we (white's) come back first and clean up the city get everything back in order.. then freakin naggin is like yeahh the afro american community was a VITAL force in the NO clean up we are like wtf.. ? you serious..

He just got caught signing a bunch of work releases to his brother for like $123,000 of work that NEVER got done. (because the homes that he "fixed" never existed).

It's whatever now thought we are being allowed back in on thursday so i should be home and ready for the OB

Well I'm in Shreveport, LA and we are getting a lot of rain right now and got a ton last night, our power is out but mostly cause I live outside city limits where no one really cares. Running a generator just to keep a few important things running, aka the computer lol.

Tyrint wrote:

Well I'm in Shreveport, LA and we are getting a lot of rain right now and got a ton last night, our power is out but mostly cause I live outside city limits where no one really cares. Running a generator just to keep a few important things running, aka the computer lol.

Shreveport!
I was born in West Monroe. =P
All I remember of Shreveport is being little driving through it a million times in all kinds of crazy storms (we had family that lived in Dallas and made the trek back and forth pretty often)


Anyway, glad to hear that everyone is doing alright, evacuated or not.

Xemos wrote:

but funny part is the afro americans ( no offense) are always the LAST to come back after we (white's) come back first and clean up the city get everything back in order..

I'm not sure if you're trying to relay what the mayor said or saying something of your own, but.... if you could not, that'd be great. that's pretty damn offensive and saying "(no offense)" doesn't make it any less so.