Riding it out in Baton Rouge
I live on the LSU campus. It's not as bad -- not NEARLY as bad -- as Anderson Cooper in CNN would have you believe here. I was most worried about homeless people in New Orleans, but tentatively it looks like there won't be a huge humanitarian disater I was fearing. I hope I'm right!
I am lucky in that I still have electricity -- many in Baton Rouge don't I'm looking outside as I type this (noon central time) and there are gusts maybe around ~30 mph, and a couple of larger branches have fallen off of the many live oaks that are here, but it's really minor. I am on the west (now south west) end of the storm, which is good for me.
It's the people on the other side of New Orleans (Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach, Slidell, maybe Pascagoula/Moss Point) that have the most to worry about. Fortunately they don't have the potential for a massive humanitarian disaster that New Orleans does.
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