Here comes Gustav

[papayahed]

Holy Moly. It's predicted to hit landfall tomorrow afternoon:

http://www.noaawatch.gov/2008/gustav.php

I'm far enough north to not worry, this is a destination for a lot of the evacutees, a couple shelters are already full. I can't speak to the difference between this time and Katrina but the evacuation and emergency plans seem so well organized.

[wilbur lim]

Oh my God,the Earth is genuinely going to be dooms day,which is on December 21 2012.Climate is going to be a nightmare for humanity,I conceive that my country would face it too,God bless!

[Scheherazade]

Which areas are expected to be affected? Will you go offline?

[papayahed]

Which areas are expected to be affected? Will you go offline?


The warning is for the central gulf coast roughly between the Texas/Louisiana border and the Alabama/Florida border.

The hurricane shouldn't have an impact up here, we might get some rain.


(Good thing I didn't go to Houston this weekend)

[motherhubbard]

I wonder if LA is ready for another hurricane? Do you think it can take it? It makes me like where I live all the more!

[Jozanny]

I hope everyone in the affected part of the Gulf stays safe. Katrina put the death knell on American Exceptionalism only yesterday.

[papayahed]

I wonder if LA is ready for another hurricane? Do you think it can take it? It makes me like where I live all the more!

I'm not sure, some of the levees are still being rebuilt and some aren't as robust as they need to be yet but this time there is a manadtory evacuation and there is no "shelter of last resort" (ie. the superdome).

[Scheherazade]

The warning is for the central gulf coast roughly between the Texas/Louisiana border and the Alabama/Florida border.

The hurricane shouldn't have an impact up here, we might get some rain.


(Good thing I didn't go to Houston this weekend)Hope everyone is safe and it will slow down by the time it hits the land.

Do we have any members who are from those areas?

[Bakiryu]

Oh god, I'm near Texas (North Carolina to be exact) and we had some flooding with Fay, I hope it doesn't get worse.

[Nightshade]

Stay safe people..



Do we have any members who are from those areas?
Iknow Im fairly crap with american geography ( well geography generally) but I cant think of anyone who lives that far south in the sates off the top of my head. Excapt where is B these days?

[Niamh]

Is B not still hanging around New Orleans? I hope not. If he is, i hope he will be okay.

I really hope this doesnt cause as much devistation as Katrina.

Be safe Papayahed and any other Litnetters in that part of the US.

Isnt the UK not due for "monsoon" type weather over the next couple of days? it was all over the papers yesterday, saying it would come in from the east and pour out over the country from Aberdeen to below London and spread out over the midlands. I think they were predicting 30mm more rain fall than normal for this time of year. Alot of rain when you think about it. I really hope it doesnt pick up again as it passes over the Irish sea. After the 76mm of rain that fell three saturdays ago, dont think we could handle more!

[Scheherazade]

Just got back from outside and it was pouring down with vengeance... And it really doesn't look very promising for tomorrow either.

[Niamh]

Just got back from outside and it was pouring down with vengeance... And it really doesn't look very promising for tomorrow either.

the papers said you were to get it for around 10 days i think. poor you Scher. :(

[Scheherazade]

A lovely end to a rubbish summer!

*raises her tea cup to British weather.

[Niamh]

A lovely end to a rubbish summer!

*raises her tea cup to British weather.

I hear ya!
*raises her tea to the Irish weather!*

[Nightshade]

joy joy joy ...dont we have a weather thread somewhere?
All hail the glorious weather... and luckly for me Im sitting in the one patch that looks like it might miss the weather ! Which is good considering we had the glorious floods and all that last year.
Ok stay safe people!
:D

[papayahed]

Oh god, I'm near Texas (North Carolina to be exact)

erm, not so much.

[motherhubbard]

I just saw a news report. I hope B is on a bus to somewhere.

[Remarkable]

Oh,ok,run to your shelters and don't be heroes...It seems pretty bad,but I suppose the States have the means to supperate all this...

[Niamh]

I've seen some of it on the news. Unreal! I'm glad its down to a grad 2. Still fierce though! saw some guy getting pushed along a street by the wind. Someone who didnt heed evacuation issues!

Isnt North Carolina not below Virginia in the central east coast and Texas south central coast of the US? arent they like a few thousand miles apart? I mean, the US is huge!

[Niamh]

Some footage
When Gustave hits New Orleans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSd4oLDG4nM)
Should be plenty of footage here for people to see how bad it is!
http://www.livenewscameras.com/map.html

[qspeechc]

I feel a bit bad about this. I saw on one of the news channels the other night, in those little scrolls they have running across the bottom: "Gustav kills 17" and I thought "Who's this Gustav chap? An how is it they know his name but they haven't caught him?"

[Bakiryu]

I've seen some of it on the news. Unreal! I'm glad its down to a grad 2. Still fierce though! saw some guy getting pushed along a street by the wind. Someone who didnt heed evacuation issues!

Isnt North Carolina not below Virginia in the central east coast and Texas south central coast of the US? arent they like a few thousand miles apart? I mean, the US is huge!

yeah but the last hurricane was kinda far away to and we got floods and destroyed property. over 1000 people had to go stay in South Meck's high school gym!

[Niamh]

thats the outter sprays. We get the outter outer outter sprays of the hurricanes that hit america here in Ireland. Had a lot of heavy rain from the south west today.:)