I haven’t been near the computer or the TV at all today, haven’t been following the news, simply because there are times I need to walk away from my information addiction, and my family and I are trying to take mini vacations as summer winds down.

When I went to bed last night Katrina was crawling toward the US gulf coast as a category 3.

I got home tonight and read this.
If you are too poor or disabled to get out…
This is not a storm that is fought or ridden out, this is a storm you run from.
There are so many people too poor to run.
I pray their shelter will hold.

There are storm blogs.
As Katrina makes landfall, people in her path won’t be blogging, the information is going to be coming from the outside into the region.
The bloggers at Storm Digest are doing an amazing job.
I went to look at the structure of the Dome - with 9 thousand people crammed in there, I think it would be a fearful place to be.

Katrina had a central pressure — a measure of a storm’s intensity — of 902 millibars, which would make it one of the four strongest storms on record. The Labor Day hurricane of 1935 that hit the Florida Keys, killing some 600 people, was the strongest with a minimum central pressure of 892 millibars on landfall.

Update:Ernie the Attorney wasn’t unable to get out of New Orleans.

So I tried to leave New Orleans today at 12:30 pm but after 4 hours of driving I had only made it 15 miles. I was alone and tired so I decided the safe play was to return. It’s kind of sad when the ’safe play’ is to go back and wait to be pounded by the gnashing fury of a Category 5 hurricane.

Katrina is going to completely change the City I live in. As I have said many times, “I like change. However, this isn’t want I had in mind. So, basically I’m like everyone else who is caught offguard by massive change. Oh well, I’ll adjust.

via The Blog Herald Katrina post