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Lilwolf:
being 5 miles away is pretty much the same as 20+ miles away.  No levee floods but got hit by the hurrican all the same.  Lots of trees down.  Lots of damage.  And probably some inital flooding... but it should have gone back down.

but 5 miles from NO he might have some real issues with getting food, water, looters, ect.

I still have a very good friend which we talked to the night before the levee.  He was in my aunt nancy's house 4 blocks from one of the levees.  He was talking about how they made it past the flooding...  Then the next morning... I'm sure he was in for a suprise.  Knowing Andrew, I could see him trying to swim to his girlfriends house if she wasn't spending the night...

whammoed:
for a visual reference:

PaulG:
If you look at Google Earth, it appears (And I'm no expert on the canals and rivers there) that Gretna is seperated from New Orleans proper by the Mississippi river.  Gretna's south of the river, New Orleans proper is north.

And even if the flooding was only briefly, there's no electricity.  It's sealed off.  Mold is gonna sprout quickly under those conditions.

 And it doesn't have to even be flooding from the ground.  As anyone who's been through a major hurricane knows, roof damage from wind will ruin the inside of a house too.  Even wind just blowing the shingles off and exposing the plywood.

shmokes:
At least most looters would look at boxes full of pushbuttons and pcbs and think ???

kenc3dan:
I don't get a great feeling of relief looking at Bob's web status entry.  Does anyone else see from the way this is worded that he may have stayed?  Please tell me I'm wrong and there's something there saying he got out early.

http://www.homearcade.org/BBBB/status.html

From Bob's site...
8/27/5
Things will be delayed for a few days as hurricane Katrina has it's eye on New Orleans! Unlike her little brother Ivan, she is on a more direct path right at us! Mandatory evacuations started this morning with Plaquemines Parish followed by several others, along with voluntary evacuation for New Orleans, which will most likely be upgraded to mandatory this evening. Stores are closed & boarded up at this point, as well as, many gas stations which have run out of gas. Alice & I have been devoting our time to hurricane preparedness, so email, orders, notifications & such are delayed, but I will try to square up everything pre-Katrina since she will no doubt be responsible for power outages for several days after we have weathered her wrath.

Incredibly, all roads lead out of New Orleans at this time with zero roads in... and it looks like the contraflow traffic plan is a great success, alleviating the bumper to bumper exodus of Ivan's evacuation.

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