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Front page of today's Times-Pic.




I'm thinking maybe 1% of the readers got the Beckett reference.




In a rare occurrence, the computer models are almost all on the same path. I can't see I've ever seen that. At least not until a day before a storm hits. Doomsayer forecast is for category 4 when it hits the Gulf "loop", an oblong area above Cuba with average water temperatures in the upper 80s. Some weathercasters call that region the hurricane incubator. It's in the loop that both Katrina and Rita exploded into cat 5 monsters.

Category 4

This will be my last entry for a while. Hurricane Gustav is supposedly a category 4 now. It's not even past Cuba. It's location is further east than the NHC thought it would be. It's primed to enter the Gulf loop moving at 15 mph WNW.

Mayor Nagin has issued a mandatory evacuation beginning at 7p tonight. The city has asked all tourists to leave. The processing for busses out has been suspended and people can just show up and go.

I've tied down the playhouse. I've boarded some windows. I'm about to empty my shed, then pack the van. I haven't touched my clothes or work stuff.

We're beginning to panic. We're looking at our house like it's the last time.

I pray this is a drill.

It's not.

My NOLA peeps? Get out. Now.

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Jeez. That's ugly. It's going right where it shouldn't.