Comments on: Telecom carriers brace for Gustav

With the powerful hurricane on a path toward New Orleans, emergency workers and telecom carriers are rushing to prevent a repeat of Katrina.

[The_Decider]

The caption that it is bearing down on Cuba is wrong. Unless you guys flunked geography or don't understand the structure of a hurricane graphic.

I hope Key West is fairing well. I miss living there!

[dfwgreg]

As someone that is in New Orleans and have left upriver to Baton Rouge, I can tell you that this will be extremely worse than Katrina. New Orleans is expecting 25 - 30ft storm surge and this will affect the entire metropolitan area (Orleans, Jefferson, St. Charles, Lafourche, Terribone, etc). In simple terms, what Katrina and Rita did not finish, Gustav will. Please pray for us!

[Constable Odo]

Let's all get together and wish that the hurricane diminishes in strength or misses New Orleans entirely. Many are just starting to recover from Katrina and it's not right they have to suffer again almost three years from the date. Katrina hit land as a category 5 and maybe Gustav will only be a 3 or barely a four. There may be less of an effect although they said the storm surge could still be 20 to 25 feet in height. The newly strengthened levees should hold and the city's pumps have been modified to continue running while partially underwater. New Orleans should have a much better chance this time.

[The_Decider]

Katrina was a category 3. If Gustav makes it to cat 5, this could spell the end for NO.

[natalieweinstein]

The satellite imagery does show the eye of the hurricane over the western tip of Cuba on Saturday evening local time.

[GuyBlaise]

The people of Louisiana learned a lesson from Hurricane Katrina. It is certainly wiser for people to evacuate the state before hurricane Gustav hits the state. Hurricane Katrina still a very traumatic event for the people of New Orleans. Hopefully the same mistakes will not be repeated. As the Batekes of Gabon say, "Someone who had a wound in the mouth knows that blood is salty."
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[toby567]

We have about just gotten done cleanning up New Orleans and now we will have to go back to there and texas and Louisianna. They all have had to leave and go to a new state to be safe. It is just really too Bad for those people. I fell bad for them.

[kelseyleann]

I think that some one should make a device that stops hurricanes by making the wind stop. the device should spin in the opposite direction of the wind in the hurricane. its just like in a pool you make the water go one way then try to swim the other way and stop it.

[ladybird-bb]

That would be nice ... to redirect the wind! Perhaps we can redirect global warming to another planet and redirect HIV to the aliens too. Or we could realise that nature is giving humanity a strong push to correct our human nature. With blows like Katrina and Gustav soon after, nature is warning us, in not so subtle ways, that humanity is headed down a dangerous road.

What is the purpose of all this suffering and do we as humans have the capacity to stop it? Is deforestation and consequent global warming really the cause of the suffering we experience today? Or is there a silent culprit lurking in the shadows?

Is there a root cause to this suffering? If so, can we do anything about it or are we to stay at the mercy of this bleak future nature is forecasting? This link provides an insightful video which deals with this dilemma and offers an opportunity to do something real ... to correct our nature!

http://www.kabbalah.info/course/crisis/

[obsh]

hope everything is o.k
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