{We think we can control nature but eventually nature is the one that control us. }

Agreed .
I mean look how they are trying to keep the sea waters from taking back that one city in that Country (cant remember what it is called) spending BILLIONS and YEARS worth of work ..comeing up with as many inventive ideas as possible trying to hold the sea back ...it is not working ..they are now about to give up and just make it a floating city ..
That wont work either .

Originally posted by toepick
I think what would be interesting is IF it does head to NOR...I mean, how many times are they going to evacuate everyone, and at what cost..can they afford to keep running this drill?

Or have they cried wolf already and this time will be a lac-luster response.

Exactly what I was thinking. If this one does hit NO, look out!

On the other hand, it might be Galveston/Houston’s turn again.

My take on NOLA is that there are locations there that are perfectly safe for habitation and necessary for the transportation industry, but it is overbuilt (or under built?) for the large number of poor urbanites that inhabit the most dangerous areas.

Well I'm on my way to Nola in a couple of weeks for an extended visit provided she's sufficiently recovered from Ike- maybe play a few gigs and enjoy some down time with a very old friend....and very much looking forward to one of the most historically significant cities in the world where jazz and blues was born and nurtured...something about which, I realize, most Americans know zero and care less about but which is in fact America's original art form...so all the self righteous pronouncements about NOLA from you upstanding citizens regarding her degenerate character and your willingness to abandon your own history serves mainly to highlight the poker some folk keep tightly packed up their keisters and the cliches stuffed into that cultural vacuum some folk call their minds...

What I would like to know is why they only worry about New Orleans. With Katrina New Orleans is the only place that is mention. I live in Mississippi and I still have trees in my yard and roots from Katrina. I know people who still live in Fema campers, but we are not mention. Waveland was almost wiped off the map and even Baton Rouge that was just hit by Gustav is not mention. All you hear is Gustav missed New Orleans. Is this the only place in the United States that matters, Do we don't matter in Mississippi.

Originally posted by marg6043
I don't think that is going to hit New Orleans this time I believe that it may got closer to the Florida coast in the northern part.

The hurricane is going too slow and that may change its course.

It didn't hit New Orleans last time...
everyone seems to forget that New Orleans isn't a state, the state is Louisiana and there is alot of other cities besides New Orleans..

Gustav hit Morgan City, so did Andrew..
look it up someday, expand your horizons.

Well, I hope Ike doesn't hit LA. My husband was suppose to be leaving out Monday for Baton Rouge with his company to do some repairs. But, his boss called and said his crew would be delayed until they see what Ike is gonna do. I wouldn't want to live on the coast. I am terrified of tornado's, couldn't even imagine a hurricane. They wouldn't have to tell me twice to get out............

Now back to th OP, Cuba is been devastating by IKE right now, but Cuba is a resilient country and hurricanes are not new to them as they are targeted along with my home Island every year by hurricane.

Now that IKE is going across Cuba and emerging in the south of the Island the waters are warmer and will put IKE closer to the Yucatan peninsula and perhaps Texas.

Still nobody really knows where IKE will end once in the Gulf.

It has to do with a high pressure pushing IKE in the gulf, but that may change soon.

Interesting developments.

just for clarification the eye Katrina did not "Hit" NOLA...yes NOLA was affected by Hurricane Katrina but it was not a Direct hit!

and yes everyone is always up and arms about Katrina and NOLA when there were other cities that actually got a direct hit....i just think we all need to remember that other cities were involed as well


As For Hurricane IKE it is nowhere near NOLA and will probably hit the Texas coast...