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Watching CNN I just have to shake my head and think of the song Bring on the Clowns. Anderson Cooper is talking about the number of people who stayed in the region, that he reports at 100,000.
Then he goes on to say that, based on computer models 100 people may drown. WTF give the computer models a rest and report what is actually happening instead of writing movie scripts with your computer modeling. Then something real happens, the lights go out behind the reporter. A power failure in the French Quarter. Now that’s news. The camera points down the street lights are on down the block. Ahhh a local power outage. That’s something that someone from New Orleans in exile might want to know. I’m not going to watch this all morning I will give it a rest for a couple of hours.

Here in Mobile at 6:17

The winds are picking up and it is raining steadily, I would descibe the conditions here as tropical storm like. The possibility of losing power is real but all in all Mobile should come through this thing ok. The question is how much water the storm surge pushes in. While this storm can do a lot of damage especially in New Orleans where infrastructure is still fragile, it is no Katrina and the media should stop comparing it to Katrina.

Mobile Al. Aug 31,2008 5:00 Pm

Gustav has arrived at 5:00 pm on the dot heavy rains and wind started here. It has been breezy most of the day, this is the first of the rain bands and it is really coming down. I have a couple of videos but I am having trouble uploading it my connection is by satellite and the weather is messing with it. I would guess the wind was about 40 mph and the rain came down at a very heavy rate. It lasted about 5 minutes and now it is dead calm. The storm is passing south of Mobile right about now. People are prepared here, but not panicked. We filled a 20 gallon drum with gasoline for the generator this morning. I will upload the vids whe I can get a reliable connection which could be a while.