SE Louisiana - stay or leave???
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Us 2 cajuns
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SE Louisiana - stay or leave???
The majority of SE La. is under a voluntary evacuation. A few areas are under mandatory. The local tv & radios continue to report the grid locks on all the roads leading out of the area. Some of the local meterologist are saying that the area should not experience any more than 75 mile a hour winds, a few trees down and power outage. Been watching this board for a few years now...I am 40 miles North/East of New Orleans (100 miles, as the crow flies, from Mobile Bay). Need your input on to leave or stay......Thanks
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Us 2 cajuns
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Ditto. I'll give you the same advice I gave earlier. Get some sleep , make sure you gas tank is full, take an extra gas can if possible and leave around midnight. Hopefully, you will miss the worst of the traffic. Just don't wait too long and get caught in traffic with Ivan bearing down. Good luck.
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If you are questioning whether or not you should leave, then the answer is clear. Leave.<P>Why on earth would you take a debateable chance with your life for a couple of lousy days?<P>Which is worse, leaving when it turned out not be necessary, or staying when leaving was necessary? <P>Think rationally.
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BensonTCwatcher
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If you can't swing it...leave anyway. If you can swing staying gone a week. I would be ready for that at a minimum. I used to live in Metarie and I am familiar with Slidell. A lot of Slidell is in the slosh zone which is very possible with the surges. Gulf storms are lousy about intensifying at the last minute, and you are within 12 hours of not being able to leave. If nothing happens go home and enjoy life. If it does, go home enjoy life, and clean up. I have been through 27 tropical cyclones first hand. I would leave tonight based on what I know now. Besides the dang mosquitos would drain all your blood the two weeks you sat around with no A/C and the windows open..
Just my advice
Just my advice
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Innotech
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BensonTCwatcher wrote:If you can't swing it...leave anyway. If you can swing staying gone a week. I would be ready for that at a minimum. I used to live in Metarie and I am familiar with Slidell. A lot of Slidell is in the slosh zone which is very possible with the surges. Gulf storms are lousy about intensifying at the last minute, and you are within 12 hours of not being able to leave. If nothing happens go home and enjoy life. If it does, go home enjoy life, and clean up. I have been through 27 tropical cyclones first hand. I would leave tonight based on what I know now. Besides the dang mosquitos would drain all your blood the two weeks you sat around with no A/C and the windows open..
Just my advice
mosquitos arent that bad. Perhaps because I was a Boy scout and endured summer camps with 100+ mosquito bites.
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If you do stay, and SE LA takes a direct hit, will you blame the NHC because they did not predict landfall down to the precise mile marker on I-10? Not intending to be confrontational, just remembering how many folks who chose to stay in Punta Gorda for Charley felt that they had been "misled" by the forecast "being off..." (because Charley was "supposed to go to Tampa...")
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I posted this in the past and will ask it again... What good is your staying going to do? Are you going to hold the roof on as the wind is blowing it away? Are you going to wet vac the water out of the house as it is flowing in? The house will be there or will not be there when you get back. If you don't have to be at work, take a vacation! See Disney (or someplace else out of the path of the storm). Enjoy an extra long weekend, the house will be there or will not be there when you get home.
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