Comments on: We’re Praying for You.

By: P. Babin

P. Babin — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:55:23 +0000

If anyone can tell me anything about the conditions in the Gentilly area – specifically near Elysian Fields/Brother Martin, etc. I would be very appreciative. My family is here in FL with us and we don’t know if they have a home to return to. If you know anything for certain please email me at Prischick@aol.com with Gentilly in the subject line. THANK YOU!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:59:18 +0000

Apropos of nothing, I am in love with Ben Lemoine and am going to bear all of his children.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:21:50 +0000

I was a little kid when Audrey blasted across Grand Isle and up through Alexandria. I still have vivid memories of the houses on my block that just ‘weren’t there anymore’ after that. From what I read and know about NOLA’s geography, that will be childs play compared to the worst-case scenerios portrayed for this one. It’s probably too late to get out at this point, so plan to make the best of a really bad situation. Fill up the tub with water, put new liners in the gargbage cans and fill them, and buy all the canned goods that you can find. Red Cross will have food to you in a few days, but water is harder to find, in quantity. Then just hold on and pray. Pray even if you don’t believe… it can’t hurt. I’ll be praying for you, too.

Ed Driskill, in Houston (another future ground zero)

By: cybele

cybele — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:18:07 +0000

Keep your heads above water – I’m with the safe and sane folks – if you can get out, do.

By: JonBuck

JonBuck — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:16:06 +0000

I’m not normally a religious person. But this is the point where even I start praying.

Godspeed from San Diego.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:07:25 +0000

TV coverage streamed to the web: http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_wwltv&props=livenoad

By: The Sanity Inspector

The Sanity Inspector — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:52:34 +0000

Best of luck, and stay dry!

By: Tom Bridge

Tom Bridge — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:27:10 +0000

Godspeed, NO. Anything DC can do to help, let us know.

By: wayan

wayan — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:18:46 +0000

I worked on the post-Andrew clean-up crew, the last Cat 5 storm to hit the USA, and all I have to say is: Head for the hills, boys, head for the hills.

I am serious about getting out of NOLA. They are talking 25ft storm surge, that’s on top of normal sea level that NOLA is what? 10 ft under.

Add in the 175 MPH winds, which will shear off roofs and peel open walls like a firehose through a paper towel, and you better be well out of Katrina’s path.

My most vivid memory of Andrew: The whole roof of a house, ripped off in one peice and thrown like a giant Frisbee, through the roofs, walls, and lives of a dozen of it’s neighbours.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:01:18 +0000

Oy. The name of McPhee’s book is The Control of Nature (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989). The first chapter, “Atchafalaya,” deals with the Mississippi, NOLA, and catastrophic weather events like Katrina.