Thanks, Grace.
I needed that.
Annie

Is it true that the dikes/flood walls are really the only

It's more or less true Jeanne.  Someday we're going to lose the city. I
honestly believe that. But it's not going to be for quite a long time.

Hurricane's seem to have skipped NOLA the last couple times. Andrew passed a
bit to the west, as did Lily. If New Orleans was ever directly hard hit with
a Cat 4/5.  Well.. Miami lived over Andrew, I don't think New Orleans would
survive as well.

Grace

Hi, Jeanne,
No, we're on the Gulf Coast, but neither of those places. I don't know about
the dikes in New Orleans or the hurricane precautions in Galveston.
So far, in the 10 years we've lived here, we've evacuated once, but the
hurricane changed course and went south of us.  From what I hear, the
hurricanes cause tornadoes, which are just as scary.
My point was that no matter where you live, there's something that can get
you, so you might as well live where you like to be.
Annie

I don't know about the tornado'ing' bit, but I have to admit I was one
of 100,000 people in my community the other night glued to the
television as we literally watched the path of a tornado (those of us
who weren't literally in the path) and the rest of the storm cells pass
by us.  The local channel just preempted whatever was on and showed
nothing but local storm weather and doppler radar stuff.  It was very
way cool.  We could see the streets we lived on and the streets where
the tornado was going. We could see the storm cells on the television
and tell when they were going to hit us and how long they were going to
last.  I was talking to a friend of mine who doesn't have a television
and telling her exactly what was fixing to happen to her weather wise.

Mind you, this isn't something they do everyday.  This is the first time
they have ever done it.  Basically, once we were under a literal tornado
watch and not just a warning.  So other than that we just get the
regular obnoxious updates like every other channel does.  But this was
really one of the coolest things I have ever seen.  It made me
understand why thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings are the length
they are as I watch all that stuff go on and move out of the warning
area at the time the warnings expired.  And, this is not something they
could have done if the community was larger than it is.  It is just the
perfect size to be able to do something like that and not have everyone
calling and screaming about programming.  And best of all...it was
commercial free. :)

Bridget