Avoid New Orleans/Louisiana if you can

[Orangetxguy]

What are they saying for around Texarkana and such? I'm heading for Laredo for a Wednesday morning delivery. Planning on taking I-40 west to I-35 south.

There is the current shot of the projections.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...?5day#contents




If I was gonna be down this way on tuesday, from up there where you are...I would eat the miles and stay on I-30 to Dallas. Talk with your dispatch..they may pay you to skirt around the storm path if you need to.

[Malaki86]

I "should" be ok from the looks of it. I plan on being in Laredo before 5pm eastern on Tuesday. Looks like I might fight it coming back north/east though.

[movinit]

Latest report is this hurricane is just short of a category 5, so DON"T MESS AROUND if you are in the area it will hit. Get out, Get out!!

[BlooMoose]

I can't get through to my family in NOLA! Are the cell towers shut down for emergency use?!?! I nearly lost them once before...I want to get them down here!!!

[Skywalker]

I can't get through to my family in NOLA! Are the cell towers shut down for emergency use?!?! I nearly lost them once before...I want to get them down here!!!

The towers may be in emergency use only...or everyone else in the country is trying to call out.... Hopefully your family is already on the move headed north out of there... Best of luck to you!! and your family!!!

I live in SW FL...right where Charley came ashore....been through a few of them...not fun.

[Skywalker]

hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible!

Yah, like the dude that did that with a wing chute during Fay....got bounced off the beach like rubber ball, then back up into the air....and crashed into the side of a hotel....he probably thought he was "invincible" too.... If he survives all the broken bones and internal injuries...he will probably have more metal in his body than the 6 million dollar man.....

Some idiots I know stayed in Punta Gorda when Charley came ashore as a 4, and got the crap scared out of them....they saw stuff flying through the air that never should have gotten "airborne"..... Its not the wind that gets you....its all the :dung: in the wind that gets you..... :shock:

[Orangetxguy]

hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible!

Yah, like the dude that did that with a wing chute during Fay....got bounced off the beach like rubber ball, then back up into the air....and crashed into the side of a hotel....he probably thought he was "invincible" too.... If he survives all the broken bones and internal injuries...he will probably have more metal in his body than the 6 million dollar man.....

Some idiots I know stayed in Punta Gorda when Charley came ashore as a 4, and got the crap scared out of them....they saw stuff flying through the air that never should have gotten "airborne"..... Its not the wind that gets you....its all the :dung: in the wind that gets you..... :shock:

It's still looking good for a Port of Fourchon land fall! That means I be in good shape! I will continue to talk with my good friend, and hope he sees things my way....Otherwise I know this chick the otherside of downtown..She is BIGTIME into the "VooDoo" medicine!! :P :P :P



Rob...where is your barge camped out at?? Below Tampa you say?? :wink:

[Ridge Runner]

Syncrosonix wrote:
hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible!

You may think you are ( invincible ) but please don't make those of us who aren't ( rescue workers ) risk our lives when you find out your not.

[Orangetxguy]

Syncrosonix wrote:
hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible!

You may think you are ( invincible ) but please don't make those of us who aren't ( rescue workers ) risk our lives when you find out your not.

So ..Squire Ridge of Runner...are you loaded up and ready for bear??

[Syncrosonix]

Syncrosonix wrote:
hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible!

You may think you are ( invincible ) but please don't make those of us who aren't ( rescue workers ) risk our lives when you find out your not.

my only weakness is a hot brunette with green or blue eyes. ladies with jet black hair seem to have the same effect on me, too. then there are the red-heads. the ones with green eyes really get me going. going so much that i cannot think straight!

[Ridge Runner]

Syncrosonix wrote:
hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible!

You may think you are ( invincible ) but please don't make those of us who aren't ( rescue workers ) risk our lives when you find out your not.

So ..Squire Ridge of Runner...are you loaded up and ready for bear??

Nope, not any more. Only do the local stuff now. Besides, I just had double hernia repair so somebody would have to come get me right now.

I hope you didn't think I was refering to you sticking it out there. I was only refering to the folke that REALLY want to temp fate.

I was there for both Katrina and Rita. Two totally different mind-sets. One was just sitting around waiting for someone to do something while the other ( Texas ) was out there making things happen. If I ever leave Ga. my next stop will be Tx. I like the way you ( the state ) thinks.

[Orangetxguy]

Syncrosonix wrote:
hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible!

You may think you are ( invincible ) but please don't make those of us who aren't ( rescue workers ) risk our lives when you find out your not.

So ..Squire Ridge of Runner...are you loaded up and ready for bear??

Nope, not any more. Only do the local stuff now. Besides, I just had double hernia repair so somebody would have to come get me right now.

I hope you didn't think I was refering to you sticking it out there. I was only refering to the folke that REALLY want to temp fate.

I was there for both Katrina and Rita. Two totally different mind-sets. One was just sitting around waiting for someone to do something while the other ( Texas ) was out there making things happen. If I ever leave Ga. my next stop will be Tx. I like the way you ( the state ) thinks.

LOL...I'm sorta disgusted with the whole deal right now.....they shifted into panic mode this morning..and nobody knows yet where it's landing..though Port of Fourchon looks real good.


If you was down here for Rita...then a belated THANKS Dude!

LOL.....I worked my butt off after Rita...hot miserable work and mosquitoes! We hauled over 800 loads of debris out of 2 plants here, plus continued hauling debris out of the company plants in the NOLA area and in Pascagoula that Katrina damaged...the control room at Pascagoula was rebuilt after Camellia they told me. It was built 24 feet above ground to place it 4 feet hire than the surge from Camellia...the surge from Katrina was 8 feet above the roof of the Control room.


I'm going to stay right here at the house until tomorrow afternoon. Yeah..I'll get ready for the bad..but continue hoping for the good....which means NOLA gets hammered!


Take it easy as you heal the Ridge.

[Ridge Runner]

Syncrosonix wrote:
hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible!

You may think you are ( invincible ) but please don't make those of us who aren't ( rescue workers ) risk our lives when you find out your not.

So ..Squire Ridge of Runner...are you loaded up and ready for bear??

Nope, not any more. Only do the local stuff now. Besides, I just had double hernia repair so somebody would have to come get me right now.

I hope you didn't think I was refering to you sticking it out there. I was only refering to the folke that REALLY want to temp fate.

I was there for both Katrina and Rita. Two totally different mind-sets. One was just sitting around waiting for someone to do something while the other ( Texas ) was out there making things happen. If I ever leave Ga. my next stop will be Tx. I like the way you ( the state ) thinks.

LOL...I'm sorta disgusted with the whole deal right now.....they shifted into panic mode this morning..and nobody knows yet where it's landing..though Port of Fourchon looks real good.


If you was down here for Rita...then a belated THANKS Dude!

LOL.....I worked my butt off after Rita...hot miserable work and mosquitoes! We hauled over 800 loads of debris out of 2 plants here, plus continued hauling debris out of the company plants in the NOLA area and in Pascagoula that Katrina damaged...the control room at Pascagoula was rebuilt after Camellia they told me. It was built 24 feet above ground to place it 4 feet hire than the surge from Camellia...the surge from Katrina was 8 feet above the roof of the Control room.


I'm going to stay right here at the house until tomorrow afternoon. Yeah..I'll get ready for the bad..but continue hoping for the good....which means NOLA gets hammered!


Take it easy as you heal the Ridge.

Well you prepared yourself well to ride out a rough time but your smart enough to know when to get out. Wishing you the best!!!

Ridge

[Malaki86]

Well, time for me to go have my fun I guess. Never thought I'd be trying to outrun an oncoming hurricane. I'll run west on I-40, I-30 into Dallas, then head due south. It looks like I'll probably be fighting a good bit of the outer bands, but shouldn't get the worst of it.

Time will tell.

I'll post updates when I can.

[Orangetxguy]

Well, time for me to go have my fun I guess. Never thought I'd be trying to outrun an oncoming hurricane. I'll run west on I-40, I-30 into Dallas, then head due south. It looks like I'll probably be fighting a good bit of the outer bands, but shouldn't get the worst of it.

Time will tell.

I'll post updates when I can.

Safe trip Dude. US59 is the shortest road from Texarkana to laredo....but US59 is going to be hammered the next 2 days with "Panickers" ....so your best to stay north and west. Take I-35 south out of Dallas to San Antonio and Laredo.

[flood]

hay ridge runner try and take it easy and heal up, like you we also worked both Katrina and Rita. your right texas and florida both know how to get-r-done.

right now we are waiting for a LOE escort into new orleans.

Orangetxguy just make sure you give yourself time togetout if you need to

[Orangetxguy]

hay ridge runner try and take it easy and heal up, like you we also worked both Katrina and Rita. your right texas and florida both know how to get-r-done.

right now we are waiting for a LOE escort into new orleans.

Orangetxguy just make sure you give yourself time togetout if you need to

When you get unloaded...if they escort you west...come on over!! A Friend has a rib roast we will cook tomorrow evening...if the power goes out!!

No worries!

[flood]

we'er empty now waiting to go in and get loaded then looks like we will be going to sit it out in alexandria, la. after it hits we will come back in.

but thanks for the offer

[Orangetxguy]

we'er empty now waiting to go in and get loaded then looks like we will be going to sit it out in alexandria, la. after it hits we will come back in.

but thanks for the offer

WOW..right where the storm is projected to pass?

Bravo young man! Bravo!!

[flood]

NEW plan anyone is getting loaded here at carville, la. then RUN to alexandria, la. to ride it out...! that way we will ALL be loaded and ready when we can get back in.