I had a Lambda Chi from Louisiana stop me on the road yesterday and ask for directions to the LXA house at FSU...I wonder if he was just visiting or had evacuated??

I always find it kind of amusing when people in areas that usually don't experience hurricanes get so worked up over a few storms a year (no offense).

I guess it's because I've lived in Miami-Dade County all my life and have experienced Cat. 4 and 5 hurricanes, so it doesn't really mean much to me.

The only problem I have is having to put up hurricane shutters. Other than that, I see it as a few days off of school and an excuse to throw hurricane parties. :p

if only the whole free world knew.

While I am too worried about Ike, we've been pretty lucky down here.

Most of the people I know experience minimal damage. I do know that there was one that we had TONS of blue roofs (tarps due to roofs being destroyed or blown up for the most part) but other than that you just sit tight in the house. We don't have wide scale evacuations or anything. It's only after Katrina that the local government has been getting more uptight. Before that they would mostly open a few shelters and we'd all go home and ride it out. I've never been to a hurricane party though. We just do everything as normal, take a walk before we get shut in, eat, bathe, and go to bed.

We didn't even get a drop of much-needed rain here.

Holy moly, Ike better stay away from Louisiana. New Orleans came out alright from Gustav, but like half of Baton Rouge still has no power! I'm one of the lucky few who got it back pretty quickly-I only had to go about a day and a half without even though I thought it would be much longer. I have friends 2 blocks away going into day 8 without right now and Entergy is saying it may not be back in many areas until Sept. 24 and that's not even taking Ike hitting us into consideration! The preparedness level for this has been disappointingly low. What was more upsetting to me was that restaurants and places like that are getting power back before grocery stores and gas stations which are what people really need right now! So Ike stay away!

Ike is on its way to the Gulf Coast. Aunt and Uncle are packing up again. You would think it's time for them to move.

Yeah, Ike better stay away from NOLA...two of my good friends are getting married there in December. I already paid for the damn tickets! :mad:

Bump for Ike.

I'm pissed, this fucker was supposed to come straight to southern Florida- we got our IFC Rush pushed back 2 weeks because of this.

And now we completely escaped it. -_-

I think that's going to change with Ike. Will you evacuate for this one?

Ike, turn around and come to Tallahassee.....pretty please??

I’ve never understood why they call it mandatory evacuation if it’s not mandatory.

I don't get it. Unless you live way too close to the beach or have a really poorly built house why would you evacuate? Here we don't mass evacuate, we open inland shelters for those who absolutely need to. (Ex. too close to the beach, mobile home, elderly, scared, sick, etc.)

If they say mandatory and you don't evacuate, then they can't be expected to be responsible for your safety or rescue. We can't technically, in the US, force someone out of their home, can we? We can say "This is a mandatory evacuation and if you don't leave, don't expect us to help you"

BabyPINK_FL: They are evacuating low lying regions because the storm surge could be more than 20 feet (one estimate just said 30-35 feet) along with 12+ inches of rain and winds of over 120 MPH. 120 MPH is equivalent to an F2 tornado. Why take chances? ETA: It seems like they evacuate the Keys fairly regularly.