Gator Diver
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Good luck to any of our fellow SBoarders braving it out in New Orleans and vicinity
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MtnDiver:Actually, The Weather Channel just showed live feed from Burbon Street and it looked like a boarded-up Ghost Town. Guess looking down the barrel of a Cat. 5 can scare even the heartiest of partyers in the French Quarter.
SuPrBuGmAn:7 people decided to stay in Grand Isle through the storm, if anyone else knows where that is, you know they just commited suicide.
munkispank:dear lord- really- I know where that is- How do you know the people in question. I really hope they make it.
I wouldn't count on that. Katrina looks pretty set to simply remove it from the map.SuPrBuGmAn:I lived most of my short life in LA and vacationed in Grande Isle quite a bit Beautiful place at times, hopefully it'll still exist after this bit of a storm.
Ken Ringle:Yesterday morning the National Hurricane Center cleared its throat and upgraded Katrina to a Category 5 hurricane That, however, wasn't the center's most significant statement. The real news was the center's chilling declaration that, at 902 millibars of internal barometric pressure -- the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico