HURRICANE GUSTAV & HANNA & IKE- INFORMATION

[Shell]

There is a good interactive map at this site:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/storm/homepage/index.html

If you click on any of the points of Gustav's predicted path, the legend will give you the predicted wind mph, and estimated hour it will be at that location.

CBB.... I can't get that to work....

Cubbee? I'm not good with technical stuff, but I just tried it and it worked for me. I may have something downloaded that you don't or maybe it was just down for updating when you tried it? Can anyone else besides me see this map?

It is working for me Cbb

[pinkbanana]

Just wanted to say PLEASE everyone be SAFE....God BLESS!!!

pbxo

[klaasend]

[sleddogs]

Way cool Hurricane situation page

http://www.vuetoo.com/vue1/Situationpagenews.asp?&af=&sit=1791&z=&np=

[GreatOwl]

Not Sure how long these will keep working.    Web Cams

http://tinyurl.com/5mwpuc

http://www.dotd.louisiana.gov/press/traffic_cameras/no_cameras.asp

[cubbeegirl]

Newsreporter live in New Orleans saying the outer bands are rolling into New Orleans... tornado warnings in a couple of parishes...

[Tamikosmom]

New Orleans Imposes a Curfew as Residents Flee Hurricane Gustav
Sunday, August 31, 2008

NEW ORLEANS  —  The city of New Orleans imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew to begin on Sunday at sunset ahead of Hurricane Gustav's devastating winds and rains that were on a path to strike the Gulf Coast.

The Big Easy increasingly took on the eeriness of a ghost town as thousands heeded a mandatory evacuation order, and police and National Guard troops clamped down on the city to prevent the kind of lawlessness and chaos that followed Katrina three years ago.

Painfully aware of the failings that led to that horrific suffering and more than 1,600 deaths, this time, officials moved beyond merely insisting tourists and residents leave south Louisiana. They threatened arrest, loaded thousands onto buses and warned that anyone who remained behind would not be rescued ...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,414166,00.html

[Tamikosmom]

updated 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
Hurricane winds could hit Louisiana by Monday morning

CNN) -- As forecasters warned Hurricane Gustav could hit Louisiana on Monday with devastating effect, officials pleaded with Gulf Coast residents to flee and Republicans said they'd abbreviate the opening day of their national convention.

As of 5 p.m. ET, the eye of the Category 3 storm was about 215 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River, the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, said.

Hurricane-force winds could hit Louisiana's southern coast by sunrise Monday, and the storm's center could hit southwest of New Orleans by early Monday afternoon, CNN meteorologists said.

Those in the projected path of the storm -- particularly those in New Orleans, which was battered three years ago by Hurricane Katrina -- should leave without delay, said David Paulison, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

"It does not make sense to put you, your family or first responders at risk by just sitting there when there's plenty of opportunity to get out," Paulison said Sunday.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who demanded city residents evacuate, said the city will impose a "dusk-to-dawn" curfew and will cease efforts to help people leave the city Sunday afternoon ...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/08/31/gustav/index.html

[carpe noctem]

[cubbeegirl]

Anybody here?

[KnayKnay]

Anybody here?

Where's the thread - i can find it one way and not the other

[KnayKnay]

Oh here I am - I cook beautifully - what do you need?

[cubbeegirl]

Not really cooking, but you know we are in the midst of this storm and I am sure to lose my power sometime tomorrow, I have a couple of Digiorno Pizzas for my son and was wondering should I cook them now, refrigerate, wrap in foil and heat on propane grill or try to cook them on the propane grill?

[KnayKnay]

Not really cooking, but you know we are in the midst of this storm and I am sure to lose my power sometime tomorrow, I have a couple of Digiorno Pizzas for my son and was wondering should I cook them now, refrigerate, wrap in foil and heat on propane grill or try to cook them on the propane grill?

Yes you should absolutely cook them now and just re-heat them on the grill. They'll be fine as long as you can keep them pretty cold for awhile.

[cubbeegirl]

Not really cooking, but you know we are in the midst of this storm and I am sure to lose my power sometime tomorrow, I have a couple of Digiorno Pizzas for my son and was wondering should I cook them now, refrigerate, wrap in foil and heat on propane grill or try to cook them on the propane grill?

Yes you should absolutely cook them now and just re-heat them on the grill. They'll be fine as long as you can keep them pretty cold for awhile.

That is what I was thinking.... We have like 15 bags of ice and a couple of huuuuuuge ice chests so I can put my food in one of those when the power goes out....Thanks!!!

[Shell]

Not really cooking, but you know we are in the midst of this storm and I am sure to lose my power sometime tomorrow, I have a couple of Digiorno Pizzas for my son and was wondering should I cook them now, refrigerate, wrap in foil and heat on propane grill or try to cook them on the propane grill?

I would cook them, maybe not now, but tomorrow before the power goes out, refridgerate them, and they will keep for days. My crew will eat them cold, but they are easy to rewarm.

[Shell]

Pizza is like turkey, it lasts for ages.

[crazybabyborg]

Cubbee! Help me plot out where our Monkeys are! Where are you and where is anyone else you know of? I want to know so we can follow the strorm and know if you guys are ok!!

I'm patting my foot here and feeling like a Mother Hen, but so be it! 

I want to put you guys on the map so we will know what is going on with you even if you cannot post. Please, anyone, help me do that! See, I already have a marker. I just have to place them in the right spot!    I can even color the markers so we'll know which monkey is where.

I want to place the markers on this map in the right location:

But I HAVE to know where everyone is!!!   

[Shell]

As I said, I grew up on the Gulf Coast and have been through many a hurricane. I forgot the name of it (20+ years ago), but I was in Houston when one of the hurricane eyes went right over. Power was out for days. I had a newborn and hubby was backpacking in California. My heart goes out to all of you in the storms path.

[crazybabyborg]

Not really cooking, but you know we are in the midst of this storm and I am sure to lose my power sometime tomorrow, I have a couple of Digiorno Pizzas for my son and was wondering should I cook them now, refrigerate, wrap in foil and heat on propane grill or try to cook them on the propane grill?

I would cook them, maybe not now, but tomorrow before the power goes out, refridgerate them, and they will keep for days. My crew will eat them cold, but they are easy to rewarm.

Cook them now, and when you've finished wrapping them, be sure and place them in a clean garbage bag or something waterproof. Be careful about letting the water from melted ice get food particles in it. Even when kept cool that can set up bacteria that can be ingested from drink can tops, etc..