Larry...This is why people on the East Coast will NEVER allow offshore drilling in the Atlantic. The water levels are already rising as a result of the enormous loss of glacial ice. Greenland has lost more than half of its ice mass in just the past 3 decades. People along the eastern seaboard will never allow drilling on top of the storms we already get each late summer and fall. The last hurricane we had, filled the Raritan Bay and its tributaries inland to the point where the flooding cut off roads and highways for almost 2 weeks during Hurrican Lloyd.

Hurricanes have been happening every year since we have been here. Offshore drilling has no effect on that at all. Its obvious because even you stated yourself that the East Coast does not allow drilling, and yet you still get hit by hurricanes. Imagine that.

I would suppose that if the people on the East Cost will never allow offshore drilling then they should never complain about the cost of fossil fuels.

"Cut off roads and highways for almost 2 weeks" oh no people are inconvenienced for almost two whole weeks oh no the dependent nature of the east coast never ceases to amaze me.

So here is the deal it is the responsibility of Local and State government, aided by funding from the Army corp of engineers, to maintain their infrastructure. If your area floods and stays flooded perhaps you should look into how your state and local government uses those infrastructure funds. If they didn't didn't keep up with their responsibility for drainage and runoff, as was the case in NOLA leading up to Katrina, then it is no longer a natural disaster rather a political disaster.

So what exactly does drilling off the eastern seaboard have to do with a hurricane?

TXMOM: When was the last time the East Coast had Federal AID and help from FEMA? The last time I can think of is when the earthquake hit in VA last year. So how does this determine the east coasts dependency??? I think your State and other southern states are the ones with their hands out asking for federal aid all of the time.

usa is great, maybe because Mississippi aka The Hospitality State is always helping other people that Federal AID and FEMA fell obligated to help a neighbor state out. New Orleans can draw all the attention they want from Katrina but it was their "policians" fault for not making sure there equipment was strong enough for the flood. New Orleans would not have gotten what they had the levy's been tested before hand. Mississipi came together and helped each other out. There were homes destroyed that had been passed down from generations to generations. Missisippi is about tradition and family, something many other states know nothing about!! People can talk about Mississippi (the land mass between Louisiana and Alabama) all they want but at the end of the day we are hard working people that if this storm comes through and causes damages, we will wipe our tears and get to work rebuilding for oursleves and our neighbors. Have a blessed day!! Peace, love, and sweet tea!!

Well TXMOM made a point above about the sensationalism and I would have to agree. Cat 1 at best? This should be of no big concern for those who live this area, this is routine as far as they are concerned, and can handle this. Just a rough storm, simple preparation would keep most people safe and able to deal with what comes of this. Don't expect there to be much of storm surge either. Biggest concern, I agree, would probably be the large amount of rain at one time. But again nothing this area hasn't seen or isn't use to. No problems being prepared and taking extra precautions but I agree, as usual the media is hyping this up. Cat 3 or higher, yup, might have something. Its a Cat 1 (maybe at this point) or less, with mainly just lots of rain. Not that big of a deal. Again, always be prepared and error on the side of caution, but Katrina this storm is not. Any comparison is a leap and just adding fuel to a fire that doesn't need it. At any rate please send that rain to the Midwest, to late for alot of crops, but could certainly still use it.

It is time

USA is great...I think you answered your own question about FEMA aid and add to that hurricain Lloyd, as Ewent mentioned above. FEMA is not responsible for infrastructure issues. That would be the Army Corp of Engineers along with State and Local Goverment and any other agency that is responsible for roads and drainage. So do you have the answer as to why the East Coast will not allow offshore drilling in relationship to hurricains?

tex, i seem to remember the northeast getting subsidies every time they have a bit of snow, and every winter for heating oil. maybe usa forgot about that. and how much of the big dig was federal dollars?

part of the truth is that louisiana got screwe for decades - since huey long, as a matter of fact - on the percentages it got in offshore drilling royalties relative to what other states got. so no, i don't feel bad that they got a lump sum payment in 2005.

Maybe if they'd stop building in St. Bernard Parish and all of the lower ninth ward they'd have the area's back that could absorb the water before it hits New Orleans proper. Great idea, build homes on pumped up sand in an area that was natures cushion to my beloved city. Fools.

"Insanity" doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Stop building in these areas. Just because you lived there, doesn't make it a "good idea" to have been done to begin with!

The rise is pretty slow, about 0.0472 inches a year averaging the estimates. Plenty of time to pack up and move, build sea walls, etc.

Do you think the Katrina issue helped these people learn the meaning of "mandatory evacuation"? Anyone want to make any bets about the number of people staying behind despite the evacuation notices? I sincerely hope that history will make these people smarter, more prepared and that there are fewer people, and animals, lost due to stupidity and foolishness. I also hope that if people do remain, they will have the honor and integrity not to take advantage of the situation by stealing and looting. Humanity can be discouraging....but it is also predictable.

This mandatory evacuation is just another way for the government to get people use to the idea that citizens dont have the freedoms and liberties that is guaranteed by the US Constitution. That if government tells you to jump than you better jump or get arrested and get a criminal record which in turn prevents you from getting the job you really want.

So here is the deal it is the responsibility of Local and State government, aided by funding from the Army corp of engineers, to maintain their infrastructure.

Unless you're a Tea Party follower. Then it's the indivual's responsibility to take care of him- or herself.

It became their responsibility when the new world order got involved.

New World Order=total dismantling of US Constitution.

I love the sound of individuals responsibility to take care of him-or herself. Music to my ears...

I guess liberals are to sheeply and incompetant to agree with personal responsibility.

It's about time for the government to tell anyone that lives below sea level, that when their house floods out, they aren't going to get government money to rebuild.

Hey Tom, I bet Isaac will be Bush's fault to since the blacky sheeples of New Orleans are too lazy to evac. There will be no NWO. I and 200 million people will prevent it and the liberals will be forced to live overseas and never to return. The new Constitutional Republic Restoration of 2017 will create a 35 foot fence along the Mex. American border with a couple guards every 300 yards armed with big boomsticks. We will be nice to Canada though. Pull all of our troops home and defend ourselves against domestic terrorism "liberals, murderers, gays, illegal aliens, anybody who dont speak English, and pedephiles and so much more".We will have a one party system in Congress. It will be the Constitution Party and thats it. We will kick the UN out of the US. Ban the EPA, the Union, get rid of 60% of our government, and get rid of hate groups like the NAACP and ban special interest groups that go on about globle warming blah blah. Our children will be taught in schools better, with a meter stick to the head if bad. We will not give any food or oil to other countries UNLESS we trade. Let the poor countries starve, they can start planting their own stuff. The list goes on.

Exactly Bscol. I hope the fools listen this time and LEAVE.

I foresee a Category 5 Double Standard about to hit the Gulf Coast...

it is ironic that after all these recent years of republicans scraping the muck up and throwing it everywhere, that they are soooooo super sensitive when anyone says negative things about them. Four years of taunting about a "long form" birth certificate, and the republicans think that it is negative to ask for tax returns. just add up all the lies, all the hate, all the hours of paid pundits demonizing democrats, then add up the liberal responses. It's like a cottage standing next to the empire state building. And yet you complain like you never did anything wrong. amazing. but no worries republicans, when you get to your end, God will explain it much better then i can.

Global warming?

It's a shame Lt. Gen Honore isn't still serving.

They're still stuck on stupid.

Human race is screwed

Mr.Hurricane sure brings out the madness...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn0ZInu1czY

This mandatory evacuation is just another way for the government to get people use to the idea that citizens dont have the freedoms and liberties that is guaranteed by the US Constitution.

You've got to be kidding me. This mandatory evacuation order is to prevent accusations that the government did not take this storm seriously like they did not take Katrina seriously. (Surely you remember all of that. I know I remember that as a slow-motion disaster-watching a Cat 5 storm in the Gulf heading for New Orleans while the city did essentially nothing; watching crowds of people head into the Superdome with no food, no water, no supplies at all and wondering what on earth was going to happen once the power went out and they were all in the dark with no food or water. I'm from FL and have been through a number of hurricanes, and we are ALWAYS told to bring food and supplies to shelters plus we know that evacuations are to save people from drowning in the storm surge-nothing can stand up to the ocean.)

I've heard from people in certain hurricane evacuation zones that first responders will tell them they have to evacuate; and, when they refuse, they will be given a tag to tie around their toe so that their body will be easier to identify after the storm! This may be facetious-I don't know, but it's not far off. I'm sure the first responders would LIKE to do that. People aren't told to evacuate so that the government can flex its muscles. They are told to evacuate to save their lives. A family member of mine lives on Galveston Island, and he did evacuate when told to do so for Hurricane Ike. A number of people did not, and first responders wound up risking their lives trying to save those people when the water rose. However, even first responders will stop coming to help once the winds reach a certain point; and people are on their own to sink or swim with a storm surge and huge waves carrying debris on top of that. The government doesn't know how far the surge will come and it may seem like they are overdoing it, but they err on the side of caution to save lives. It's NOT political!

To JCB -

I lived in St. Bernard Parish my entire life before Katrina. Our home was over 5 feet above sea level on a natural clay ridge. In fact, our federal government did not even require flood insurance in my area of St. Bernard parish because the elevation was naturally so "high". So, while I agree that there are areas of St. Bernard that should not be built upon, it is NOT the entire parish. In fact, the entire area along the River is on a natural ridge and did not sustain significant flooding - even in Katrina.

By your logic, we should not build in ANY of the 100 year floodplains around the United States or anywhere that floods annually due to Spring rains and snow melt. So, don't narrow your focus on NOLA if you think people should not be allowed to build in a flood prone area -. Expand that thinking to places in Illinois, Indiana, Rhode Island, California, Missouri, and any other state with routine flooding whether from rivers, snow melt, etc... I think you'd be surprised to know just how places sustain some type of significant flooding on a regular basis. It's NOT just NOLA and it's not just St. Bernard.

Hey StBPgirl, save your breath dawlin, deese people are i d i o t s!

News98....The price of gas fluctuates with supply and demand. To use a snide remark from above....gas prices going up over holiday weekends....More people drive a distance to family over long weekends. This taxes supply. So the market for gas goes up because demand is causing an increased drain on supply.

Now add to that the speculators. They are like any other market driver..they buy low when supplies are plentiful and sell high when demand is up and supply needs to increase. That is how speculators make money. So many on here would shout about the evil capitalists.

So lets flip the situation....In the United States a full time hourly wage worker is considered 40 hours a week. For that wage they receive monetary compensation, time off and other benefits. This has been a historic standard for decades. So when supply is low a worker will generally work a 40 hour week for their wage and benefits. When demand dictates a need for more labor, workers will increase the supply for labor at a general cost of time and a half. Again the principles of capitalism at work however, when the "worker" is the beneficiary of capitalistic principles their is not screaming or kicking feet about the cost of demand.

Just like Katrina, right? Yeah, right!

Katrina was predicted to be bad...Cat 5.. But, most didn't heed the warnings..

Mark_DW...now that you bring that up the State and Local Governments in Mississippi and also Alabama did prepare for the hurricane, they did allow supportive federal assistance in to help their people. Unfortunately, the Local and State Government of the day did not properly support their people or their communities. They implemented the same mistakes when Rita hit that same year. If they could not personally profit off of the tragedy then they chose to do nothing until they got a handle on how to exploit the funds going into LA.

We hear all about how we should feel bad for Louisiana but it was Louisiana's own fault, they voted for bad leadership. Because the folks in Louisiana performed civic duty so poorly most resource was focused on NOLA. The people who prepared from Mississippi and Alabama, where the sorm made landfall, had to wait for the sloppy seconds from the Government. So they picked themselves up and dusted themselves off and life began again without millions of hands out looking for something in it for them.

txmom32

Please take the time to educate yourself about what happened in New Orleans.

In June 2006, General Strock accepted responsibility on behalf of the Corps for the failure of the flood protection, calling it "a system in name only." Faulty design specifications and incomplete or substandard construction of levee segments contributed to the failure of the flood protection.^[17]

^{You can keep pointing fingers at bad leadership but ultimately it was errors by the Corps that caused a majority of the flooding in New Orleans. My home was under water because of critical errors by the Corps, not any politician.}

txmom, you're absolutely right. I don't know much about how it his Alabama, but I had friends in Mississippi and they were hit extremely hard by Katrina. The difference was they didn't sit on their hands crying "help me" and wait for rescue, but rather started making the calls and digging in to get the work done and the people helped. I have to say though, Cat 1 or not I'd be making immediate plans right now to visit relatives in the midwest if I were living in the path of this one - once bitten twice shy and all that!

Galveston was up and running not long after it was wiped out by Ike because people got off their butts to help rebuild. Houston was inundated with displaced people after Katrina, some trashing apartments, the city and robbing (in at least one case, murdering) the people who were kind enough to help them. Bush was blamed because people didn't leave the city when they KNEW a hurricane was bearing down on them. Do you have to have somebody hold your hand and TELL you what to do?

lineof....so you are simplifying the problems to one quote. Perhaps it is you who should educate yourself on the $$$$$ that flowed every year to the State of Louisiana form the Federal Government in ear marks and other avenues to maintain the levee's and gates and pumps. There were many pet projects that that money was diverted to in lieu of maintaining that infrastructure, ultimately enriching some well connected old families of Louisiana. One was a remote and ill placed port and there were others. It has been about six and a half years since I did the research. So please feel free to research yourself but you might consider going farther than one quote. Condolences for your home being underwater...I certainly hope you had the foresight to have flood insurance. When my brothers house was underwater, during Ike, that was the difference in getting on with the repairs or waiting for the bureaucracy to do anything meaningful.

Marge, having lived on the Gulf Coast much of my life the best thing to do is be prepared which is like several shades of gray...if you plan to leave be prepared have gas in your tank your important papers and med and water in the car. if you plan to stay have food, fresh water, pet food, fuel for the BBQ, cleaning supplies etc. I have family on Galveston island and when a storm comes their way my brother goes to work and my sister in law takes the kids inland. Currently we are far enough inland that a Hurricane will loose some of it's strength before it reaches us so unless we are looking at a 4 or 5 coming our way we stock up on anything and everything for a week to two weeks, we bring my MIL and her dogs to our house, we connect with our neighbors via walkie talkies, we have gas to fuel the generator if we run out we can always drain from the cars. The part of town we live in currently is rather new so we don't have much problem with mature trees falling on power lines which makes reestablishing power in our area pretty easy. Our sewers are all very new so they drain well and we have lakes around the community to help manage high water. Master planned is a very good thing along with city leadership that puts the citizens first. We are very fortunate.

As for Katrina...we used to live in the part of Houston that the Mayor so generously offered up as NOLA west. That is a whole other very sad tale.

Personally...I don't feel sorry for anyone who builds their home 9ft below sea level then bitches when it floods. I think it's just plain stupid.

They knew about Katrina,,and waited, and waited and waited, until it was too late. Then bitched because FEMA didn't do all they expected them to do. If they had gotten their asses out of the area when they should have..it wouldn't have been such a disaster.

At katrina , fema held back trucks with aid at gun point, too bad the liberal media didn't show you that. Or when fema tried to shut down the new orleans communication center, at gun point.

Thank God Obama is our president now.

It's only a tropical storm! Sheesh!

Katrina was less than was predicted but no one in NO seemed to take notice. If nagal had gotten people out like an intelligent Human would have there would not have been the deaths that occurred. The man was an idiot.

We had 12 inches of rain in just over 24 hours and were told to go into a 'safe room' three times for nearby tornadoes here in the Palm Beach area. Not all that much wind damage, but tons of flooding from all the rain coming so fast in South Florida. Good luck to the people up north still in harms way.

Well, they have taken a break for 7 years, is not that enough?

Yeh, move to Chi-town where you can get hit by tornadoes and ice storms, not to mention getting mugged either by a greedy politician, or a crook -- and Chicago has plenty of each (minus one that is temporarily in the White House).

romilio

Well, they have taken a break for 7 years, is not that enough?

Sorry it is 6 years.

6 years? didn't katrina hit in 2005. my math makes that 7 years

John Smith69

Quit picking on Chi-town ... LOL ! <just kidding> Thing is we are tough and we can handle just about anything that comes our way. Chi-town still is a great townd despite all the shootings, killings, free loaders on welfare , high taxes, crooked politicians and that damn white stuff that falls every winter.

I wish everyone well in New Orleans and surrounding areas and hope that Isaac weakens before strengthens.

Dan I grew up in the Midwest and have now lived in Florida for 5 years with no cat 2 hurricanes thus far. I witnessed tornadoes each spring all around me and since I have moved down here my home state of Ky has seen an ice storm, major wind damage on 3 occasions and tornadoes that wiped out whole towns. How's that landlocked security zone looking for you now? LOL

I'll take living in Louisiana over anywhere else any day of the week. So what if we have to deal with the occasional storm. I also get to live in a state where we have the best cuisine, fresh produce, because we don't get plant killing drought, and the best fishing in the world. Try doing that in one of those landlocked storms.

Ha :)

Each to their own. The odds of being hit by a 300 mile wide hurricane are drastically greater than being struck by a tornado. I wouldn't want to live in Oklahoma or Kansas, but Illinois is a pretty hospitable climate (if you ignore the politics).

Got any popcorn from all that burned up corn up there? lol

Not when you have over 300 tornadoes a year as compared to 1-3 hurricane that make landfall every couple of years. In the time since Katrina has hit, how many tornadoes have ravaged the inner United States? Does Joplin come to mind? At least you can predict a hurricane days before.

Agree with Jason, rather live in Louisiana than anywhere else. We are ready, bring it on. Got supplies, got the generators ready, got everything we need just in case. Got plenty of food, now we just wait and when and if it hits, we spend time with friends and family, watch the storm and cook up some good food.

Hurricanes wouldn't stop me from living in La., the mosquitoes, snakes, alligators would make me think. I don't understand why money is wasted on New Orleans to keep it from flooding though.

Real funny George (Wallace).

Jeremy, I've lived here all my life and never an across an alligator. The only place you see them is if you go in the basin or swampy areas and you go looking for them. Snakes really are not a problem either. I have seen very few of those too. Money is not being wasted in New Orleans to keep it from flooding-they do it because it people live there and the tourism brings a lot of money to our state. It's really not thatbad of a place-you just have to know where to go when you go there.

To all the fools basking in pleasure for the hurricanes that hit the south. The current drought in the mid-west, don't you realize we all suffer to some degree. We are all Americans! Disaster can strike anywhere in the United States of America. Only the heartless find the hurricane amusing.

I agree Frank. I don't find it amusing. It's just Mother Nature. Each area of the country has it's own type of weather. Personally I'll take a winter up north over a summer down south anyday. I can't stand the heat. But there's good for everyone, as we have different types of weather for all over the country.

Up here we get Nor'easters and blizzards...down south there's hurricanes (which we get occasionally) tornados in the midwest, earthquakes and fires and mudslides in CA. You get to choose where you want to live.

I just hope everyone gets out ok. Be responsibile for yourselves and your families. When told to evacuate, LEAVE.

Kanic, doesn't it feel great knowing the great food we get to cook, we have been able to catch ourselves, and people from all over the country pay just to be able to eat it. And that is why we love our Saints. Because they represent the fighting spirit that we have.

kanic:

if y'all are ready for Issac why is Bobby Jindal already whining and crying that the help the President promised is not enough. I don't ask you to send me $$ when I get hit with 20" of snow. Don't ask me to send billions your way since you choose to live in a dangerous area. Red states are all alike. Hate the big, bad federal government but are first in line for federal handouts.

Hey Jason:

Great food? Tell me about LA's chronic obesity problem. Overweight and undereducated. Dean Wormer, calling Dean Vernon Wormer.

Jeremy, do you also not understand how so much money Obama has poured into the NYC, Chicago, and LA ghettos? When all is said and done, New Orleans still will have great food. Doubt you can say that about the other 3.

IF it were only so easy.

"Way back when", when it was built/founded, whatever, there were no levees in place upstream on the Mississippi river. This allowed water to 'go away' and not concentrate in one place. Now with levees, walls, and no natural silting, it's a big dish getting lower every year. I believe I would abandon ship.

In due course the sea will reclaim a lot of areas and there will be no choice but to move cities and communities.

Kiru, you mean like building Washington on the swamp?

Then again, some right wing white guy with nazi tatoos and a copy of the Limbaugh letter might kill them all in a shelter.

That's wishful thinking.....

Sound slike he deserves a Nobel prize almost as much as Odumbo.

A guy who designed two skyscrapers in New York filled with greedy right wingers with no method of escape must have been a Jewish genius and guess what it was a Jewish genius who owns most of the rental spaces there....

Red neck Republicans in mobile homes in the South and Midwest and cracker houses ought to know tornadoes love their abodes. But, here comes big brother with disaster relief.

Farmers in the Midwest ought to know that droughts happen on a regular basis , so be prepared to have your crops burn up, but once again here comes big brother with federal aid.

Ditto head

Get that anger out there Georgie boy you'll feel better.

I've never seen "redneck republicans" whenever I visited New Orleans. What does New Orleans consist of anyway? (rhetorical question and sarcasm)

You pray for the Hurricane to not hit Tampa and since it is now heading to New Orleans you thank god? Idiot. Your god didn't do anything nor your prayers.

Wallace, don't fret. The storm will not delay your welfare check and food stamps.

Pray.get some evangelical down there. Get that stupid Texas govenor to pray you some rain.

Coolhand-perhaps a bit crude-I would say so. They were not rats, they were people, and unless you live in this area and saw first hand what these people went through you shouldn't be saying that because you never know what situation you may be in one day.

Well 911 cleaned up New York and the money lenders in those two sin temples.

You're just sick George.

"these people" went through what they went through because their local elected leaders dropped the ball, fell asleep at the wheel, however one wants to put it. There was no excuse for what happened then and will be none for what happens this time.

A barge hit the levee in Ward Nine in New Orleans from the lake side. Katrina was a Mississippi problem. Of course all people heard was poor New Orleans. One could not get into Southeast Mississippi if you tried for days. It was the war zone. No one took pictures of the inland counties so they could not be reported on. How dare this author continually and others say that Hurricane Katrina went over New Orleans, Lousiana,when that is a lie. It skirted Plaquemine Parish below New Orleans when the east side was still well in the Gulf of Mexico then moved across east and made landfall at Pass Christian, Diamondhead, Mississippi, then moved north into the Southeastern part of the State of Mississippi.

So now all you people know the truth. And to tell you this, but Mississippi's highest point is 300ft above sea level in Northeast Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi is located over an extinct volcano. And people in Southeast Mississippi are survivers of Katrina (2005), Frederick (1979), and Camille (1969). We all were teammates and we all played on the same field. We helped each other with whatever we had to do to make sure we were okay. (I also was at this time a National Red Cross Worker in construction.)

Jerry

They have being very, very hard to get this to hurricane status for over a week and the storm won't cooperate.

I think it eventually make 74mph and a cat one but I think Texas gets the hit. The lib media will do anything so they don't have to cover the RNC convention.

So far this has been a non event and I live in Florida.

Fox News is covering every second. What else ya want?

Tampa and much of Florida's west coast and panhandle saw bands of heavy rain on Tuesday morning.

How did they manage that. It's Monday.

same day, same path as Katrina, 7 years later

god is speaking to us.

I think it has its eye on Gulfport this time. I think that is going to start tracking north as the upper level western air mass filters across Louisiana and Arkansas. It is 8:52pm and I live 90 miles NW of Mobile , AL and hadn't had the first sprinkle. It is starting to cloud up though. If this was a bigger storm I might would had done more as prepping my yard, but we have had more bad weather that has been worse than this inland already this summer and I didn't do anything but cut my grass then and tend to the garden.

Vegas has the highest unemployment in the country around 15+%...

Nevada was hit the hardest when the housing bubble popped. They still have harry reid as a senator, both are terrible and i wouldn't wish either one on anybody.

Wallace,

You obviously never spent much time in NO, The Big Easy. Nawlins makes Las Vegas look like a Sunday school on Easter morning. God might be planning on going to finish the job that Katrina left undone. I lived there for a few years and learned more about moral depravity than I ever wanted to. Google the Decadence Festival, New Orleans. I am not sure how much detail you will get on the net, but if you happen to be there, the public demonstrations are extreme, and the private parties are said to be straight from hell or Caligula's Rome.

Lazarus

Tami: Once again, the government has NOTHING to do with gas prices.....blame it on the speculators in the commodities markets. Boy, I wish people would understand how gas prices are decided. Our Government does NOT set the gas prices.....the most that our president can do is release gasoline from our surplus if things get really tight; other than that, the government has nothing to do with rising gas prices!!!

Didi.....When these people only watch Fox fake news and "Swamp Wars" guess we can't expect them to get educated on gas prices or biology facts. Like a poster said the other day, "Repubs want control over the weather and women's bodies, but they haven't figured out yet how it works!"

I could not agree more it goes the same for those who insist on rebuilding their trailers in the same tornado alleys... I mean c'mon really. They have been talking about this storm since last week. Already there are idiots saying I stayed for Katrina I will stay for Issac! Are you flipping kidding me?!?! It will be the same ppl crying they lost it all again and the government should pay for it.. I do hope that the media is just hyping this up as the 2 hurricanes do not appear at this time to be the same at all.

I guess not everyone has the means to leave even if they wanted to. I would stay. Isaac is going to no much more than a cat 1--that's no big deal. New Orleans hasbeen through cat 1 before and did just fine. The levees all around th city ave also been rebuilt and are stronger and more durable. The worst side of the storm is on the east-so Florida is getting the bulk of the rain and water.

Robert-why say goodbye-is it going somewhere? FYI, La. has done a lot of work over the years on repairing and improving the levee system around the entire city of New Orleans. You should also watch the news, as of recent, the storm will probably be no stronger than a cat 1-going to make landfall tomorrow night-Florida is actually getting the east side of the storm which is worse. New Orleans has been through quite a lot of category 1, 2 and 3 did just fine. There are really a lot of really evil people making comments. When did we become a society of such uncivilized people wishing harm on others?

Since they probably got arrested in New Orleans for being Jack asses. Karma is hell folks, and there are more than a few on here that are going to reap their's for being such uncaring, morons.

from what i read it wasent evan the levys that filed . it was the ship that broke free raming in to the banks of the levys . when you got somth ing strested. and then you ad a sluge hammer like a ship flating free. hitting the baks it make them faile

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