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To: combjelly who wrote (247928)	8/28/2005 6:23:21 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573096

"The people will be mostly out of there when the storm hits......." No they won't. For one, you've always got the ones who want to protect their property from looters or want to "experience the power of the storm". For another, there are those who just don't have the transportation to leave. And finally, you have those who won't leave early enough. If they haven't left yet, they won't make it. Have you ever been under an evacuation alert? The roads fill up real fast. Much of coastal Louisiana is very low, many roads will have water over them pretty quickly. When I lived on the coast, I always lit out as soon as there was a hint of an evacuation order. One time I didn't, I judged that the forecasters were wrong and we weren't in the path. I happened to be right on that one, but even if I had been wrong, it wasn't a very big storm, but I digress. Any way, being stuck on the road in stalled traffic with a Cat 5 storm outside is not something I would wish on anyone. But that is going to happen... They just showed the freeways going out of NO. The traffic is not bumper to bumper like yesterday. Traffic is not light yet but those who are going and have left by now should be okay. Of course, there are the New Orleanians who couldn't live for a number of reasons; the few idiots who didn't want to leave; and the stupid tourists who waited until the last minute to leave and can't now because the airport is closed. Most of them are being put in the Kingdome and the large hotel buildings. I think the Kingdome should hold.......its the ones in the hotels who are in the biggest danger. Maybe I am wrong but the I still don't expect the death toll to be any worse than Ivan. However, I expect the financial destruction to be much, much worse........probably the worse for any hurricane ever if it hits deadcenter into NO. ted