evacuating sux

[laserstang21]

ok well if anyone has been paying attention to the weather you know that louisiana just got plowed by gusauv. well i live about 30-40 miles from where he made landfall. well im in lauderdale, ms. well one of my buddies works for the parish i live in and he said that my house is fine. but now we have to worry about the other one that could end up in the gulf, ike. but i think we will be staying a few more days because they said it could be like a week before we could get electricity back. anybody else have to evacuate?

 

[Killa]

Im from Jackson, MS, come to us if you need place to stay, any way the storm already pass us 4 hours ago, and many people from LA still stay here and no one can go back NO or LA until tomorrow. good luck buddy.

 

[laserstang21]

thx man i think leavin tomarrow but one of my buddies said that my house is fine and we didnt flood so thats a good sign.

 

[Killa]

tomorrow it will be over, so just stay, but where do you head to ?

 

[geoffsgt]

I'm from NOLA but go to LSU, so I rode the storm out in my apartment in Baton Rouge. Lotta wind up here, and rain. Trees down all over, power lines and posts down. A lot of wind damage to roofs of buildings and such, and flooding from all the rain. Really wasn't that bad though. LSU closed through Friday though, so that's a plus . But the game is probably canceled, so

I live real close to campus, which makes my area a priority for the power company, so we got power back around 3pm today. I think most of the city is still out. 2 blocks down Nicholson from me, there's a transformer, still attached the the upper 1/4 of a telephone pole, laying on the ground. And a bunch of the poles down Nicholson (major street that runs from downtown BR) are leaning at like 60 degree angles, with flooding around them that might cause them to fall more. But apparently they don't affect me, so I can't complain.

GF's parents are staying with us up here. They're from Metairie (basically New Orleans, for those unfamiliar with it). They heard from a friend who stayed that there's no damage at all in their area, but they are without power because one of the main transmission lines is down and the power company can't find it. People can start returning to that area 7am tomorrow.

 

[darkside03gt]

wow that sucks. at least its not another katrina. i was out there for disaster relief/medivac and i remember all the stuff we saw when we were flying around. I really feel for you.

 

[laserstang21]

they were expecting it to be worse than katrina but it fell to a cat 2 before landfall. if it was a cat 3 it would have been a lot worse. my mom and lil bro and two sis's stayed with some fam in hammond but i went with the future wife and her fam to lauderdale ms and we still got alot of rain.

 

[Killa]

here at ms we do too, it gonna rains all day for the whole this week.

 

[d98gt]

We didn't get anything out our way, though alot of the area was under mand. evac Traffic is bad due to people heading back but that should clear out soon.

 

[superstang01]

i am from canada and it looks pretty nasty down there in the south, be safe guys. I could not imagine what its like to go through that although i have been caught in big ice storms.

Be safe

 

[joshheat25]

Sorry to hear about that I can only imagine..
I live in DE we haven't had a hurricane ever.. only catch the tail end of storms

 

[laserstang21]

well we electricity back so now we wait to see wat ike does

 

[BJ1000RR]

I just got back to the N.O., my house is good and we just got power an hour ago. Now I gotta watch IKE. I was hoping to go to midnight madness. ***

 

[isjoining]

looks like Ike is going to hit florida

 

[laserstang21]

well from what i see is they expect ike to go across the tip of florida and go int the gulf.

 

[isjoining]

yeah i would imagine the projected path to change 12 hours from when I last posted, but its still too early to tell where its going.

 

[laserstang21]

yea i no. so the check i get monday that i was supposed to get yesterday might be to run again