http://www.usm.edu/gulfcoast/severe_weather.html

University link to severe weather and information for faculty and students

Thanks for the offer, but if my dear pet "Albert" can't come, too, I guess we'll just ride it out here, surrounded by junk food, Coleman lanterns, battery-powered televisions & chilled adult beverages.

Anyway, if the current NHC intensity forecast holds, I'd rather be where I am than in H'burg...

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2%2Bshtml/145105.shtml?3day?large

LVN,

Here's another link of interest...........

Good luck with this approaching hurricane USM folks!

I have had the Weather Channel on all day, and this one looks like it could be big (as in damaging). Although I am about a thousand miles away -- I am crossing all fingers and toes that Katrina's bark is worse than her bite.

 

Everyone be safe.

Mr. Boudreaux and party, I hope you will receive this message in time. Perhaps you will stop at a place with internet access? If so, please do not go to the same house you visited before. Mlle. de Guerre received some unpleasant correspondence after that episode, for which I take entire responsibility.

I do think you should possibly consider leaving T-Fred at home during these evacuations. After all, he is indigineous to the area, and has probably weathered a great many fierce storms in his life. And, he can swim.

After some discussion, Mlle has decided that you are welcome to stay in our guest house, but we too must invoke the "no alligators" rule. It's too dangerous for T-Fred, with Dervish about. One does not wish to provoke incidents with the Fish & Game personnel, especially as Mr. Klumb may someday be associated with them. (One hopes.)

My word of warning to you is this -- do not tell Mlle. de Guerre that the language you speak is "French" -- there may be repercussions. Also, the koi are our friends, not gumbo ingredients. See you soon.

H. Angleterre, Social Secretary to Monique de Guerre

Hermione Angleterre wrote:

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Mr. Boudreaux and party, I hope you will receive this message in time. Perhaps you will stop at a place with internet access? If so, please do not go to the same house you visited before. Mlle. de Guerre received some unpleasant correspondence after that episode, for which I take entire responsibility. I do think you should possibly consider leaving T-Fred at home during these evacuations. After all, he is indigineous to the area, and has probably weathered a great many fierce storms in his life. And, he can swim. After some discussion, Mlle has decided that you are welcome to stay in our guest house, but we too must invoke the "no alligators" rule. It's too dangerous for T-Fred, with Dervish about. One does not wish to provoke incidents with the Fish & Game personnel, especially as Mr. Klumb may someday be associated with them. (One hopes.) My word of warning to you is this -- do not tell Mlle. de Guerre that the language you speak is "French" -- there may be repercussions. Also, the koi are our friends, not gumbo ingredients. See you soon. H. Angleterre, Social Secretary to Monique de Guerre

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Hermione Angleterre,

Many tanks for your kind offer.  Me, I been tryin to get Thibodeaux to leave T-Fred, but dat coon-ass just love dat gater, ya.  He don go nowhere without T-Fred. no.

 

We did stop near dat Wiggins exit and bought a mess of chickens fer T-Fred.  Dey are all tied to de back of dey truck in cages so T-Fred can’t get to dem. 

 

You didn’t say why we shouldn’t go to dat fancy shelter on Jamestown road.  Me, I hope nuttin happened to dat nice man what tell us bout dat economic development, no.  Thibodeaux and me would a get degrees dis summer, but dey don have de graduation dis summer, no.

 

Sure would like ta meet you, but dat attack poodle would be too much for T-Fred, ya,

T-Fred, he be a gentile gater, for sure.  We gettin back on I-59 an will check back later.

I remember USM being closed for 3 days during Hurricane Georges back in '98, but I suppose that was under Fleming's tenure, right? (Or was Uncle Aub still at the helm? The mind is the first thing to go...) We didn't have electricity, as I recall, so it wouldn't have made sense to hold classes anyway.

Please everyone stay safe this weekend!

Truth

I know the hardcore Weather Channel folks & the terminally paranoid are all tuned in to the National Hurricane Center & the Weather Underground.

But if you've got an aircraft carrier, destroyer, or pickup truckload of alligators, the Fleet Numerical Meteorology & Oceanography Center has an interesting map that shows not only the projected path but predicted wind radii. Scroll down on the page & click the left-hand map. The page updates automagically & there is an archive of previous maps.

As of 10 AM CDT, KAtrina was a Strong Category 5 with wind speeds of 175 MPH, the track has slightly shifted eastward by a couple of miles, and the map from the National Hurricane Center in Miami has the eye coming right through Hattiesburg as a hurricane. I see Shelby still hasn't canceled classes in Hattiesburg, but if this storm continues to build upto Camille type proportions, I'd say screw the Dome Gnome and get the hell out of Dodge.

From the HA today:

"Forecasters said wind gusts of more than 100 mph can be expected along the Interstate 59 and U.S. 98 corridors in the Hattiesburg-Laurel area Monday after Katrina makes landfall."

Looks like a NO BRAINER to me!!!

GGP

The University of Southern Mississippi's Hattiesburg campus will be closed Monday, August 29 and will reopen tentatively on Tuesday, August 30. For updated information, call (601) 266-4494, log on to www.usm.edu or monitor your local media outlets. All essential personnel will report to work on the Hattiesburg campus Monday morning.

All Southern Miss Gulf Coast operations will be closed both Monday, August

29 and Tuesday, August 30. For updated information, call (228) 865-4500, log on to www.usm.edu/gulfcoast or monitor your local media outlets.

If Curt is correct, and I really hope he isn't, and the eye passes over H'burg, you guys won't have classes for a month.  No electricity, no safe water, flooding, all sorts of fun and games (NOT).

Please be careful and if they order an evacuation, heed it, leave, go somewhere else until she passes through.  While I don't know many of you personally, I have grown to care about all of you.

Emma wrote:

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And who might those "essential personnel" be? If they only had a brain, a heart, and some courage.

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Hmmm.... If you don't show up Monday morning, you're admitting you're nonessential. And in tough budget times, nonessential personnel is disposable. Hmmm....

Gotta go tinker with the new generator. See y'all in the aftermath.