In New Orleans, Blogs become crucial decision-making tool

The fearful weather reports about Hurricane Gustav did not persuade Sheila Moragas to leave Old Jefferson, a suburb just west of New Orleans.

[alli]

Thank you for this - I'm evacuated in Chicago right now - and very active in the blogging community. We are all staying in touch and keeping tabs on each other. My family lives up here so they are my New Orleans family.

[R U really that stupid]

If a person has to depend on what their friends are doing to make a decision when a strong category 2, potential category 3 hurricane is likely to hit their home. A home which is located in low lying area, likely to be flooded and a place in which the entire government echelon, the local, state and federal authorities are telling citizens to leave. If this is you, then you are just stupid. There is no other word for it. You are incredibly over the top, thank goodness breathing is an involuntary process because if you had to accomplish this on your own, you would have died decades ago stupid.

[Ron Gray]

.I think that McCain and the Republican Party is doing the right thing by hiding behind Hurricane Gustav on the first day of the day to respond to the Dems. Can you hear it, one is talking. Just think of it, that storm blew President Bush right off the Republican convention speaking agenda. Now if McCain and Sarah Palin can hide from the rest of the party for 60 days, I believe they would have it make.

Chicago, IL.

[Jesse Woods]

Wow, I wasnt sure they had DSL or Internet in general in certain parts of La.

Jess
http://www.useurl.us/17n

[Tanner Sims]

Was Gustav really all that bad?

[Live In KS]

Jesse Woods wrote:

Wow, I wasnt sure they had DSL or Internet in general in certain parts of La.
Jess
http://www.useurl.us/17n

Wow....I wasn't sure if there were any intelligent people in Fla.......obviously there is at least one moronic one.

[Sheila]

I didn't NEED twitter to help make my desicion to evacuate. In the end, we did evacuate. For the safety of my daughter. My home in Old Jefferson is NOT in a low lying part of town. You know not of what or whom you speak. And for the record, my home sustained ZERO damage, had ZERO flooding and would have been perfectly safe had we stayed.

R U really that stupid wrote:

If a person has to depend on what their friends are doing to make a decision when a strong category 2, potential category 3 hurricane is likely to hit their home. A home which is located in low lying area, likely to be flooded and a place in which the entire government echelon, the local, state and federal authorities are telling citizens to leave. If this is you, then you are just stupid. There is no other word for it. You are incredibly over the top, thank goodness breathing is an involuntary process because if you had to accomplish this on your own, you would have died decades ago stupid.

[Drink some Drano will ya]

R U really that stupid wrote:

If a person has to depend on what their friends are doing to make a decision when a strong category 2, potential category 3 hurricane is likely to hit their home. A home which is located in low lying area, likely to be flooded and a place in which the entire government echelon, the local, state and federal authorities are telling citizens to leave. If this is you, then you are just stupid. There is no other word for it. You are incredibly over the top, thank goodness breathing is an involuntary process because if you had to accomplish this on your own, you would have died decades ago stupid.

I hope for your sake that you never need any help in a situation like this because I'm pretty certain that you don't have any friends. It's really dis-heartening to see that ppl like you even exist on this earth.