Gustav news here

[skinneyrinney51]

Hi...I found this Forum because I was looking for Gustav info. I'm from the Cincinnati, Ohio area and I stayed up all night switching from one channel to the next keeping up with Gustav because I got to visit the south 11 months after Katrina. My husband and I traveled I-10 from Mobile Alabama over to New Orleans. It was something that I'll never forget seeing and my pictures don't do justice to what it really felt like being there and taking it all in from one state to the next. And like I said, that was even af-
ter 11 months had went by...it looked like only days in some places. As I watch this hurricane make landfall...I'm just wondering how many homes that people were trying to rebuild when we were there, are now, "under the gun" again! My thoughts and pra-
yers are with those going through this hurricane. I went through Hurricane Charlie on an Air Force Base in North Carolina with my son and his family. It was very frightening!
Thank Goodness, at the last minutes that it was making landfall, it veered to the right
staying closer to the beach area than coming inland! I seriously tell people all the time I want to spend the rest of my life somewhere in the south (I'm 51)...but they tell me I'm nuts because of the weather like this. But, there's no place like living by the ocean
as far as I'm concerned. I took 2 cruises 6 months apart because I'm addicted to the
feeling of being so small against something soooooooooooooooooooo big! <LOL> I can only dream about taking another cruise now because I am rebuilding my life after a di-
vorce. But, God willing I am coming back down that way again! God Bless ya'll down
there! :-)

[ggluvbug]

hope everyone fared well.
Where I am, it was a windy, windy rainy day. I was very surprised that we didn't lose power. Usually, we lose power when someone sneezes. I am very pleased that we didn't. I am so glad to see all the evacs go so well.

[jacksonian]

I've been getting a lot of my news from here:
The Hurricane Information Center

I found the link through Welcome to Mississippi Public Broadcasting Online, there are photos and news stories that are more detailed than the national media.


We are ok here in Jackson, just lots of rain and gusty winds. I have been watching the clouds roll by quickly over the past 48 hours. It seems that the counties near the Mississippi river are getting the brunt of it, towns like Natchez. Also there have been some strong storms pushing north through the east side of the state as well. We lucked out here in Jackson, I wish I could say the same for the coast. It's no Katrina, but it packed a punch. We will see how the tributaries and river branches fair from all the rain, looks like we will continue to see rain for the next few days.

[nancy thereader]

I am so glad for all of my friends on the Mississippi Board that this worked out as well as it did .

[aiangel_writer]

Several tornado warnings around our area today and more expected overnight and tomorrow. Hopefully we will miss out all around and it will be enough west to pull that moisture with it.