re: Hurricane Gustav

Hey I like having Jindal behind the 8 ball much more.. I just think this move is a bit early. People are certainly watching it more than ever. Katrina woke people up. When I was programming ocean models in 2003 I promise you nobody knew what the hell it was. Today everyone knows a link to at least 4 sites showing computer models. Problem is that people overreact on long range forcasting not understanding that the models are not pinpoint at all that far out.

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while i agree we shouldn't panic. Leadership doesn't have the luxury of pretending that this might not hit. People don't take you serious when you screw around and act like it isn't a big deal.

Being overly cautious is the way to go. Waiting until Friday may be too late for some people. They might feel like they don't have time. They might become anxious. They might feel like they can't get to their uncle's house 18 hours away, so they'll just stay home...etc.etc.etc.

We are finally going about it the right way. Let's hope we continue this trend for the next few days.

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couldn't agree more with these sentiments. Maybe your better with words but this is exactly how I feel. Katrina essentially ruined me for over a year. Lost everything, my community, neighbors, most of what I knew to be my city, all the things I had wanted to do and aspired to be 1 year out of college. I was ruined watching my family members hurt and feeling a sense that not even the most optimistic people I knew nor a single civic leader could ever give me any hope. I began to drink just to deal with the pain on a daily basis. Now that I've nearly turned the corner on all that (I have optimism for N.O., La, and the whole gulf coast, I've seen some good strides in rebuilding, most of my relatives are now back to a normal life... and I was finally getting used to feeling good again) then we have this hanging over our heads.

Maybe it's a Louisiana thing, maybe an N.O. thing but I just feel we have more to lose than anyone else on the gulf coast at this point and playing it safe and being called a fool is better than acting like it's pre-August 2005 and ending up a fool.