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One evacuee’s tale is the subject of this blog post: The six hours before dawn took us into the gridlock. Once we hit I-59, traffic was reduced to an average of one to three miles per hour. With no available gas in sight, the option of AC rapidly became too fuel-intensive to embrace. In heat close [...] 
Seen in Insurance Journal: One risk modeling firm estimates that insured losses to onshore properties in the U.S. are between $2 billion and $4.5 billion, with an expected loss of $3 billion due to Hurricane Gustav. According to AIR Worldwide Corporation theses loss estimates do not account for any flooding that may yet result from the [...]
After the traffic jams that were experienced on interstates by folks evacuating southern Louisiana, this post at the Best of New Orleans Blog may be a useful reminder for next time: After an hour of sitting in the well-documented misery that was I-59 in the waning hours of contraflow, we got off as soon as we [...] 
Local newscasts are much less annoying than the cable news channels.
CNN has a blurb mentioning water overtopping the Industrial Canal levees in New Orleans. However, a quick check of online sources doesn’t reveal any confirmation. During Katrina, the NWS was pretty quick to issue a flash flood warning when a levee was breached. …of course, as I was typing this up, CNN cut to a live shot [...]
It seems that the downside of having 1.9 million people evacuate Louisiana this time is that perhaps the evacuation routes might have been a bit underpowered. Despite what’s been heard on CNN, the Best of New Orleans blog reported this afternoon: I am livid with the information we are receiving from the authorities and the media about [...]
Seen at the Times-Picayune: Mayor Ray Nagin late Saturday warned that Gustav is the "mother of all storms" and ordered a mandatory evacuation for the West Bank of New Orleans for 8 a.m. Sunday and noon for the East Bank. "We want 100 percent evacuation," said Nagin. "It has the potential to impact every area of this [...]
If you were thinking about driving through southern Louisiana ahead of Gustav….maybe that’s not such a good idea. Seen at the Times-Picayune: The contraflow plan to open all lanes of traffic away from coastal areas to speed evacuation from Hurricane Gustav could begin Saturday night and no later than Sunday morning, state officials said this afternoon. The state [...]
For those of you who are so inclined, the Times-Picayune has posted a map highlighting where the weak points are in New Orleans’ not-yet-completed post-Katrina improvements to its storm surge defenses.
When it was announced that Obama would make his acceptance speech outside on Mount Olympus at Invesco Field, there were reports that certain McCain supporters called for prayers for rain. (The forecast for Denver is clear, by the way.) Now it looks like the GOP convention will be competing with Gustav for media attention. This has [...] |
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