if you’re asked to leave then get the hell out of there or else shut the hell up. you have been warned.

That’s a thing of beauty right there!

Tell your bro POS congressman to get the cash out of his freezer—

Maybe they’ll use them this time around …

The Good Lord helps those who help themselves. Get moving people… no ones gonna carry you out.

My wife & I along with the dogs are all walking-around with our sphincter muscles set to maximum torque. As the seagulls shit, we’re some 18 miles East of Galveston, a couple hundred yards off the beach.

The season does have its good points, you can most definitely count on having your intestinal tract & colon cleaned-out a couple of times or more. Gawd almighty we hate these damned things.

Our biggest problem is our elected officials became involved to ‘protected’ us by law - of course they do this by committee(or maybe I should say, by those who should be committed). So between TWC and the local news stations raising the level of panic to obscene levels, we get to toss-in ‘the committee’ calling for “mandatory” evacuations which will assuredly jam-up every road and highway - mostly with people that would never, ever be affected.

It’s just swell.

Another good source is www.accuweather.com and just forget about the others they are normally way out in left field.

Worst thing that could happen for anyone on the Gulf Coast is to be hit by the Northeast Quadrant of the storm. That is where the worst weather is. the wind has time to pick up speed across the open water as well as pick up massive amounts of water to drench you with. All the tornados are usually created in that quadrant. If the storm hits Grand Isle, LA the entire eastern part of the U.S. will have power shortages because their natural gas supplies will be really f’d up. 30% of the entire nation’s supply goes through Henry Hub (south of Lafayette, LA), Port Fourchon, LA and Violet, LA. I do not think that what is produced in Oklahoma, Texas, the Rockies, the West Coast, and Alaska can make up for the loss.

So if the major hubs for natural gas go down, then no feedstock for plastics, paints, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, soap, and fertilizer is screwed.

What the comparisons to Katarina should note is that the SIZE of this storm has been MUCH less throughout. Much of K’s impact was due to the sheer breadth of the system. By comparison, even at Cat 3-5 Gustav should be a “quickie”.