Three years ago on August 29th, Hurricane Katrina changed all of our lives here in the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast. We will never be able to sit "easy" while watching a hurricane brew into the Gulf of Mexico. People in Hattiesburg have been buying water and stocking up on supplies since Tuesday of last week. It's almost been surreal, but it's definitely been scary.
It looks like Hattiesburg is going to be spared the wrath that we felt with Katrina. They are still predicting bad weather tomorrow and Tuesday, but nothing of the magnitude we felt with Katrina. We had sustained winds of 100mps with gusts to 120--we assume there were stronger gusts but the instrument that measures wind speed was destroyed at 120.
I'm happy to not be going through the horrors we went through 3 years ago, but I feel seriously for New Orleans. At least they seem to have a plan to evacuate people beforehand, which is so refreshing, but it's still scary to think that there are people who haven't left and don't plan to. Let's hope that there isn't a repeat of the horrible flooding and human tragedy experienced three years ago.
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