On-the-ground reports

rollick posted that hoodcity created katrinacane and friended people who are in the hurricane area and didn't evacuate - you can read the collected reports here.

Good luck, Gulfport

New Orleans has seen the worst they're going to get - Katrina is en route to Gulfport, now, and NO turned out to be on the "big easy" side of the storm - the side with 120 mph winds, not 150. We'll know over the next 24 just how devestating it's been but the levees held enough to keep the city from going underwater.

This is the moment where I wonder whether what my science teacher in high school said was true - hurricanes never hit densely populated areas directly. Even when Katrina came thru miami-dade last week it didn't catch Ft Lauderdale, Miami Beach or downtown Miami. It was, like NO, 20 miles away.

GIP.

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