Click here to see the National Weather Service’s 5 day projection of where Hurricane Gustav is headed.
Everyone down here, including me and Tom, are rapidly making preparations for the worst. That is all we can do to be safe.
This afternoon, I will be stocking up on essentials for a bad hurricane and getting cash. If the hurricane hits anywhere near here, electricity could be out for days and/or weeks. More likely, weeks out here at the house because we live in a rural area. After Katrina, one of our neighbors did not have electricity for over three weeks.
I cannot stay under those circumstances because of my many health problems, number one being that I’m diabetic and need to keep insulin refrigerated. We have planned right now for me to drive up to Jackson early Sunday morning to stay with a good friend until the hurricane passes and we can see how things are then.
All of this may change in the next three days – we’ll see – but right now those are the plans.
To all those of you who followed us closely through and after Katrina, please pray again for us and for all those around us who lost so much in Katrina and who are facing losing everything again. If this hurricane hits dead on the mouth of the Mississippi and moves up into New Orleans with a direct hit, it will mean total chaos and devastation to not only those in the low lying parishes, but probably also those in New Orleans, as well.
If we are on the east side of the hurricane, that will mean extremely powerful south winds blowing water inland from the gulf and lots of rain, as Florida just experienced last week with Fay.
Wherever the hurricane hits, and it has already caused death and destruction in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, God help us all.
I will keep you posted.
Dee
Dee Andrews
Wow! That forecast has you zeroed in, doesn’t it? Having lived on the East Coast of Florida for 8 years, we know what it’s like to know a monster storm is bearing down on you. Give me the unpredictable earthquake any day over the hurricane and tornadoes spawned off.
P. S. If the worst happens, you must have great comfort in knowing FEMA will immediately be right there to make everything whole again!
take care down there!
blessings
Dee, will be praying for you and everyone in the path.
– Bobby
Dee, God bless you and Tom and everyone else in the path of this storm. I’ll be thinking about you and praying for your safety and wellbeing. Be safe on that drive to Jackson. Doris has a brother and sister-in-law in Kenner, and I have many former co-workers across the coast. Again….may God bless.
I feel your pain and stress. We’re praying that the whole “Katrina Region” be spared Gustav.
We are supposed to go see my Dad this weekend but are keeping an eye on this storm, he lives to the west of you, near Beaumont. It might be better if he comes to see us. Hope it will just fizzle out or go in some unpopulated area.