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[bedlamsbard]

Looks like I'll be on the West Coast a little longer than planned; Tulane's delaying its reopening until Sunday, with classes resuming Monday, because of the mandatory evacuation of Orleans Parish.

Unless the city drowns, of course, I'm assuming. *bites lip* I want New Orleans to be all right. I want Tulane to be all right. I like Ellensburg, but I miss New Orleans, I miss Tulane, and I miss my Tulane friends.

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[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Aaaah, I just checked the Gustav satellite, and it's definitely roaring into New Orleans. But I hope Tulane will be alright too! And all of New Orleans in general, 'cause they still hadn't really recovered completely from Katrina. D:

Though I do wish a couple of nice angry thunderstorms would blow off and go to Houston.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*waves fist* SCREW YOU, GUSTAV!

Although one of the girls in my hall is from Florida, which got him by Fay just before she came to New Orleans, and now she's evacuating from Gustav, and Hanna is headed towards Florida again...she has bad luck.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

I miss New Orleans, I miss Tulane, and I miss my Tulane friends.

*grins at you*

Amusing de-angsting aside, I keep watching the news and thinking "why the FUCK does anyone live in the hurricane belt?" Clearly, this can go on the long list of Things I Will Never Understand About America and Its Denizens.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Because it's gorgeous and amazing and so -- *waves hand* alive. It has its own character, and it's a little quirky, and anyway, the hurricane season doesn't last that long. Katrina was supposed to be the storm of the century; it was the first major hurricane in ages and ages. Gustav is, uh...a freak of nature?

But that's how nature is. There are tornadoes in Tornado Alley, there are earthquakes in California, there are ice storms in New England, and there are hurricanes on the Gulf Coast. Everywhere in the world (and we'll just ignore the fact everything I just named is in America, because I'm not awake enough right now to look up everyone else's problems -- tsunamis in southeast Asia, earthquakes in Japan, etc., etc.) has its own fun natural disasters. The Gulf Coast's just happens to be hurricanes.

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

But Gustav missed New Orleans! *dances* And I have my flight back!