Katrina Cometh!

I live in Baton Rouge and it looks like Hurricane Katrina is heading right for us. We could lose power or internet access, for a day or a week, so I may not be blogging for a while. See you on the other side!

Update (9:31 pm): Vodkapundit has some information on Katrina, the damage she could cause, and past hurricanes that hit my neck of the woods as well as some discussion among his readers. New Orleans will be hard hit unless this thing turns, but hopefully Baton Rouge (being farther inland and a little to the northwest) won’t receive too much damage. As I type we haven’t had much more than some rain so far.

Update (12:10 am): The weather is pretty calm here in Baton Rouge right now. The calm before the storm, so to speak. If Katrina moves along her predicted path, Baton Rouge will be swept by her western, weaker side. I got the following info off of Accuweather.com:

The second landfall for Katrina is expected in southeastern Louisiana around 7 a.m. CT Monday with the worst wind conditions in New Orleans from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Winds will reach 100 mph sustained with gusts to 120 mph but flooding will cause the greatest amount of death and destruction. Wind and flooding will pose the greatest concerns as far east as the Florida/Alabama border. The greatest destruction will cut a 60 mile wide swath across southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi.

Katrina will spawn tornadoes across Alabama and eastern Mississippi. The threat from damaging wind gusts, flooding rains and tornadoes will spread northward through Tennessee, Kentucky and into the Midwest early this week.

The winds throughout the South will be strong enough to down not only trees and power lines. In the major destruction zone, structures will fail and collapse and make missiles out of objects that are not tied down. The storm surge will reach as high as 25 feet at landfall.

I’m off to bed soon. More in the morning if I still have power and internet access.