Hurricane Gustav watch

[-Wolverine]

.. it should be hitting New Orleans pretty soon, could be as bad or worse than Katrina, I think it's a Category 3 storm now, the whole city of New Orleans has been ordered a mandatory evacuation and people who choose to stay will have to fend for themselves.

www.cnn.com for more, anyways thoughts?

[habtasia]

The storm has now been upgraded to Catagory 5

This catagory can reach up to windspeeds of up to 125MPH and is the strongest catagory

And yes, there has been a matadory evacuation,

I believe that the winds as we speak are getting stronger and are already up to 30-50MPH

I just hope for the best as they have only just finished re-building after the Hurricane 3 years ago

I dont know how they make up these names for the Hurricanes, there so silly!

[habtasia]

Sorry for double post,

The hurricane will be hitting New Orleans in 29 hours apporx.

The hurricane HAS been confirmed as a Catagory 5 and will NOT be downgraded

The matadory evacutaion will take place today at 4.00pm or 8:00am in America

Evacuation processes have already started in Rural Areas

I will post more news as i get it

[wolfsburg]

sorry to be a 'grammar nazi' but lol at how habtasia spelt category and mandatory, haha.

[habtasia]

Lol, it was nearly 3 in the morning so yea

[Nemo]

oh noesssssssssss. that must really suck for the ppl who live there ;s

[J0SH]

sorry to be a 'grammar nazi' but lol at how habtasia spelt category and mandatory, haha.

Well if you're laughing at that I can laugh at the fact you don't type proper English. All lowercase isn't English, haha.

[-Wolverine]

So I guess it was nowhere near as bad as expected, but still lots and lots of flooding though

[GommeInc]

Sorry for double post,

The hurricane will be hitting New Orleans in 29 hours apporx.

The hurricane HAS been confirmed as a Catagory 5 and will NOT be downgraded

The matadory evacutaion will take place today at 4.00pm or 8:00am in America

Evacuation processes have already started in Rural Areas

I will post more news as i get it

Lol didn't really think it through when they said "It won't be downgraded" when it's now a category 2 hurricane. So now it's not going to be as bad as Katrina, but still quite bad.

[Technologic]

Its a cat 1 now