So the meteorologists are saying that Gustav will get as strong as a category 3 before as it hits southeastern LA, but I'm rather anxious that it may turn into another category 5 hurricane like Katrina and Rita. (I'm also anxious due to having close relatives in LA, and they're only an hour's ride from the gulf).
The weather has been more mild than it was in 2005, so maybe it won't get that strong. What are your opinions on this? Do you think that the gulf waters are warm enough to potentially strengthen the storm into a cat. 5?
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Well, your family is doing what the Red Cross (and common sense) recommends in terms of evacuating and notifying relatives:
http://www.redcross.org/article/0,1072, ... 71,00.html
If you are nervous to the point of distraction, you might consider donating blood at a local blood drive or blood collection center this weekend. Not only are the Gulf coast states apt to get tropical storms, they also don't generally get enough blood donations to satisfy local need, so those states have to make blood delivery requests from regions with a surplus.
If you don't want to give blood, you could assist with a local blood drive. For example, people are needed to register donors as they arrive at the blood drive and to assist donors at the canteens after they have given blood.
Local Red Cross chapters also need people with special skills that you probably wouldn't think of. For example, although the national Red Cross organization has a website design with a professional appearance, many local Red Cross chapters either don't have anyone at all to develop and maintain a website for the local chapter or the people developing those sites are woefully lacking in technical skills and/or artistic ability.
There are all sorts of ways to put that nervous energy to practical use.
http://www.redcross.org/article/0,1072, ... 71,00.html
If you are nervous to the point of distraction, you might consider donating blood at a local blood drive or blood collection center this weekend. Not only are the Gulf coast states apt to get tropical storms, they also don't generally get enough blood donations to satisfy local need, so those states have to make blood delivery requests from regions with a surplus.
If you don't want to give blood, you could assist with a local blood drive. For example, people are needed to register donors as they arrive at the blood drive and to assist donors at the canteens after they have given blood.
Local Red Cross chapters also need people with special skills that you probably wouldn't think of. For example, although the national Red Cross organization has a website design with a professional appearance, many local Red Cross chapters either don't have anyone at all to develop and maintain a website for the local chapter or the people developing those sites are woefully lacking in technical skills and/or artistic ability.
There are all sorts of ways to put that nervous energy to practical use.
Man, that's awesome it weakened down to a cat. 2. And the great thing about it is that the majority of the people in the south didn't take a chance. They prepared, evacuated, and the storm even weakened instead of getting stronger (which is interesting to me about that. If the gulf isn't that warm, the hurricane can weaken as it crosses the not so warm waters, right? Where's Bad@sskow when you need him 
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About time. I can't think of many other natural disasters that give such an advance warning.Kiran wrote:They prepared, evacuated, and the storm even weakened instead of getting stronger
I wonder what will happen with the RNC now that it's mainly the media playing this up as the "storm of the century" when it's nothing more than a glorified wind storm at this point.
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If the only effect of Gustav is keeping Bush/Cheney out of the convention, then the republicans have this liberals permission to view that as a gift from God.woodchip wrote:So as M Moores comment of "Gods will", with the weakening of the storm we can now say God is not mad at the Republicans?
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Myself and my family stayed home in the Panhandle. While we didn't/haven't gotten hit with anything spectacularly ginormous, we have been on the receiving end of three days' worth of rain - monsoon proportions, no joke. Still, we do prepare, stock up on food, all that good stuff. We just live a little further inland in a brick house, so all we have to worry about are flooding and tornadoes. Currently our back yard looks like Dagobah. Again, no joke.Kiran wrote:Man, that's awesome it weakened down to a cat. 2. And the great thing about it is that the majority of the people in the south didn't take a chance.