I noticed that quite a few people came by from my commenting on The Irish Trojan's blog. I apologize if ya'll got the idea that I was actually blogging about it. I found Brendan's site to be the most informative and quickly updated site about it. My main concern about it, selfish though it may be, is that one of my blog friends lives in New Orleans. So I've been getting information there. Since I noticed that he was updating so quickly and multi-tasking I tried to do my part to help. I was watching the 'The Weather Channel' and could help in that way.

Se7en, I hope you were able to get the hell outta dodge, since you didn't leave until Sunday morning. The outlook is better than it was for NO, but they are saying that the storm surges have yet to come in. I don't really understand what that means, but I think there is may still be some danger of more flooding.

Anyone wanting more information, go to the Irish Trojan. He has many links and posts about what's going on. If you'll take the time to go back through the last few days of posts, you'll notice that the warning should have gone out Saturday morning at the latest. Instead many tourists got trapped, as they weren't going to leave until a 'mandatory' evacuation was called. From what I have been able to tell, with the evacuation so late, many people were trapped on the interstate highways during the hurricane.

As soon as people start setting up places to donate for helping with the damage and whatnot, I'll let ya'll know.
*update* there's a post with a link for donations to the red cross. |