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New Orleans orders mandatory evacuation
Washington Post ^ | August 30, 2008 | BECKY BOHRER

Posted on 08/30/2008 6:43:48 PM PDT by ricks_place

NEW ORLEANS -- Spooked by predictions that Hurricane Gustav could grow into a Category 5 monster, an estimated 1 million people fled the Gulf Coast Saturday _ even before the official order came for New Orleans residents to get out of the way of a storm taking dead aim at Louisiana.

Mayor Ray Nagin gave the mandatory order late Saturday, but all day residents took to buses, trains, planes and cars _ clogging roadways leading away from New Orleans, still reeling three years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city and killed about 1,600 across the region.

The evacuation of New Orleans becomes mandatory at 8 a.m. Sunday along the vulnerable west bank of the Mississippi River, and at noon on the east bank. Nagin called Gustav the storm of the century and told residents to "get your butts out of New Orleans now."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: evacuation; gustav; nagin; nola
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To: DannyTN; ricks_place; Secret Agent Man
Didn’t Katrina hit during the southerndecadence parade before? Or just after it?

Yup. Hit just prior to it. Canceled it. Boy, what a coincidence. (But if Pat Robertson were to mention this "coincidence," boy, would others make sure the "wrath of God" would descend upon him for pointing it out)

41 posted on 08/30/2008 8:18:48 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Lijahsbubbe

The stereotyping is idiotic.
~~~
True Dat!,,,

It seems like every thread has a load of that Krap on it,,,

Most from the West or the North from lookin’ at their pages.


42 posted on 08/30/2008 8:36:25 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: ricks_place
Get ready for Katrina #II


43 posted on 08/30/2008 8:37:55 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is not 'free'.)
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To: Centurion2000

I think it’s a message - “DON’T LIVE THERE.”


44 posted on 08/30/2008 8:47:40 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ricks_place

Are the landlords (ie., federal government taxpayers) going to be picking up New Orleans’ welfare-state Democrats in limousines and giving them a ride to plush hotels this time, the way they failed to do last time? And, of course, handing out $2,000 “debit” cards like candy....


45 posted on 08/30/2008 8:54:27 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: mvpel

Good post, good link.


46 posted on 08/30/2008 9:00:50 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: ricks_place

I’m glad Nagin learned from his errors with Katrina. I hope no one is killed or seriously injured there. Prayers for those in Gustav’s path!


47 posted on 08/30/2008 9:17:49 PM PDT by MortMan (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton)
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To: Sacajaweau

I asked on another thread, without a plausible answer, “Who has the authority to order me out of my home and for reason”? Shouldn’t it take a court order?


48 posted on 08/30/2008 9:29:50 PM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: ryan71
Thanks...I think I understand God's plan a little better.

I hear voices: "Sorry to rain on your parade"....again.

Let them parade....on another planet.

49 posted on 08/30/2008 9:37:42 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: Buffalo Head
Good grief...If your house was on fire...Would you say..."I'm staying!!" Common sense says get out...And you shouldn't have to be told.

Do as you wish...at your own peril.

50 posted on 08/30/2008 9:41:59 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: gracesdad

I used to have close family in Slidell who have since moved.
Prayers for your dear parents.


51 posted on 08/30/2008 9:45:01 PM PDT by mountainbunny
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To: Centurion2000

***It’s weird but it seems like ever since it hit Jamaica it just turned and it’s headed almost directly at NOLA.***

Bush’s and Rove’s weather machine.


52 posted on 08/30/2008 11:11:10 PM PDT by wastedyears (Show me your precious darlings, and I will crush them all)
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To: Sacajaweau
"Good Grief" is correct! It is the sheepish people in this country that are allowing a government take-over of all responsibility and freedoms. You don't remember hurricane Katrina when the government confiscated the firearms?

I can well take care of myself and my family and am no more willing to give up my home or guns than Chuck Heston. My question related to the legal aspect of some local bureaucrat ordering people to leave their homes.

Are you a free citizen or just a government subject?

53 posted on 08/31/2008 6:45:06 AM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: gracesdad

As a resident of southeast LA, I concur, gracesdad! Too many people who didn’t “wait around” have been falsely maligned because the media didn’t portray any who left — just those who didn’t.


54 posted on 08/31/2008 12:12:33 PM PDT by JLLH
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To: JLLH

Thanks jllh. My parents are safe, but this is obviously taking a toll on their mental and physical health, and their home in Thibodaux might take Cat 4 to 5 hit. They had just finished fixing it up to move back near their kids. Who knows now?


55 posted on 08/31/2008 5:29:41 PM PDT by gracesdad
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To: gracesdad

So sorry to hear of your family’s home. I can certainly identify on the toll it takes to be without basic power. We had water but had no electricity (and no generator!) for 10 days. We were about to lose what was left of our sanity when some of my colleagues, who had gotten their power back, lent us their camper trailer and a generator. As it turned out, we only used it for one night since our power came back on 9/11. I don’t think we would have lasted one more night - truly!!


56 posted on 09/13/2008 7:31:59 AM PDT by JLLH
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To: JLLH

Damage to the parents’ home was minimal, thank goodness, but they still haven’t gotten back home. They found out power was back, but then stopped at Jackson, Miss., because of Ike.


57 posted on 09/13/2008 3:24:23 PM PDT by gracesdad
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