Gustav

I have the sense that the Louisiana government is trying to show that they learned from their mistakes during Katrina, and are going over board to be prepared. We're already in a state of emergency, 3000 military men have arrived to be stationed all over the city and to enforce a curfew, Parish's are already doing forced evacuations and they have tons of buses to take people to a place in Northern Louisiana built for evacuees.

You can only see a few, but there was a long train of these vans, all heading towards high ground through out the city, so the moment after the storm, they can be working to get power back on,

Today after my parents left for Texas, I went with Steve to the Pregnancy Counseling Center that we run, and got the Ultra-Sound machine and move it to higher ground. since then I've been cleaning out the ice-boxes and unplugging them (we lost a bunch during Katrina because of a power surge) and now I am getting ready to get out of dodge myself.
There are some folks in New Orleans I know that have some land further up in Louisiana, they graciously said '"yes", when I asked If I could evacuate to their place and stay with them during the storm. We will be way out in the country, so I will likely not have any cell phone or internet for a while.
If the storm hits the western side of New Orleans it could finish off what Katrina left unflooded. So I may have a busy fall ahead of me, We missionaries are never out of a job.