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[edsam1]

Today I was driving down to my mom's, going about 80.  Everyone around me was going fast.  The south bound people flew down for whatever last minute reasons and the north bound people flew up to escape the present.  On my way I started to think about how every person in this entire state is feeling the same way.  Sure, everyone facing this storm,

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[lunchmeatjedi]

I'm excited. And in all actuality, the GIS people, the higher paid FEMA people that are actually smart and have the most expensive computers for map making and generating models... one of those guys told me a storm of this scale IS supposed hit at least once every three years. So if one didn't hit this year, we would be overdue for one big time. It may not be supposed to hit NOLA every three years, but it is the natural cycle of things for big hurricane to make landfall somewhere in the US. That's why they expect monsoon season every year in Cuba and all around there. It's a natural cycle that has been happening for hundreds of years.

Fay actually helped Atlanta by helping to replenish some of that cities water sources that were dwindling this year.

And FEMA and the governments are already handling this storm's preparations a lot better than with Katrina. Jeremy worked 20 hours straight yesterday helping move fresh water and 200,000 meals (or enough meals for 200,000 people to live on for a week) to the Air National Guard.

This time, everyone has a lot better idea of what the storm can do are taking it more seriously. Even the ghetto people are being helped to get out of the way. Last time, people weren't leaving four days ahead of time like they were with this storm.

Every aspect of this storm is being handled better than it was three years ago. Sure, there will be fuck ups and bad shit will happen. But it will pale in comparison to Katrina.

I am expected to be back to work in Gulfport on Tuesday. But I'm thinking by tomorrow I will be told to not return for a few days and be on Administrative leave.

With all the mixed signals the forecasts have been sending, people still have had more sense to GTFO instead of waiting til the last second to get stuck in traffic.