Gulf Coast prepares as storm Gustav approaches - Yahoo! News


Saying prayers for New Orleans......some sweet home....

i think no will be much safer than us, this round..we are already out of gas at many pumps, canned goods are scarce..here we go!I am not so scared of the weather (I have been through many) its just teh inconvenience of it all.. and expense!. We lived a week with no electricity last round and we weren't even directly hit like NO was..oh well.. what can you do?

what can you do,just be ready...and make sure you will be safe.
we were not directly hit by katrina 3 years ago,but we lost power for a week,lost some of our roof,we lost our pool,and lost time at work...and had no running for 4 days...

gas station are low,and some don't even have any gas left..

I have food,drink,I bagged my own ice for 3 days now,and stuffed it in walmart bag in teh freezer.we fired up our generator to see it it worked.
we have enough card games,books and have recharged anything and everything we thought about....

we are just waiting now...

Yeah, Noahsmama, Katrina actually didn't hit NOLA as much as it hit coastal MISS...it's just the levee's broke. Imagine what will happen if NOLA actually gets the direct hit from a cat4/5. It will make Katrina look like nothing. That is a scary, sobering thought. I pray this thing peters out, but I have a bad feeling about this one. We have a lot of loved ones on the coast from TX to MS.

I pray it does too......my dad actually lived at the time of Katrina in a town called Saucier, MS....near Gulfport, MS...he was visiting me at the time when we were still in Deridder, LA...

sure will how much more can they take? Stay safe all who are in the path~I sure pray it fizzles out by the time it reaches land!

Please just stay safe everyone!! You're all in my thoughts!

that is all we do too.. we have been getting our generators ready and sandbags will be 2morrows chore. praying for god's guidamce and protection! so we will be as ready as we can..we do have two hotel rooms reserved in Dalllas for us through the generosity of my dad's truck driving company that he works for.so that is a confort and we may very well useit! this storm may bring 15 foot surges to us if it moves any further west.. alot of times..most of the time being right on the east side is worse than being in the pat..we are less than hour inland..

Even though we are 2 1/2 hours away from the Mississippi Coast we still had a lot of damage from Katrina and where out of lights and water for over a week and a half. We live in the country so we are always last on the list of being serviced. I went today and stocked up on food and drinks and lots of water. I filled up the van and hubby filled up the cans for the generator. Most of the stores around here are running out of can food, water and the gas stations are running low.

I will just be praying and keep going that is all we can do. My dd is afraid of bad weather. In Feb. we had a tornado where we live and 3 trees fell on the house and my van so she really is scared now days.

So I have my hands full. I also have a lot of my family living in New Orleans and outter areas. I know a lot of them are coming this way.

Everyone stay safe and I will be praying for you all.

same here! praying for everyone's safety! your poor dd! That is really a hard thing to be scared of!

we are no longer in the "hurricane cone",I am in Mobile Al,45 mn east of biloxi MS as of right now.I am glad ,but still fear for everybody else on the gulf coast...because I know what they are thinking and feeling right now. the hurricane will land somewhere and it won't be pretty.
we still have enough food ,gas....


please be safe....

I am in Houston and 50/50 chance of it coming between NOLA and here. DH says he is not leaving. It was mandatory evacuation for Rita (right after Katrina) and we spent 17.5hrs. on highway and never made it out of Houston.
I pray for the safety of all of us in the path. Hanna is right on his heels, too, sigh.

Cheri