To: ***@***.com
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 19:41
Subject: Re: This really is the Big One.
Dear ***,Compared with New Orleans, Baton Rouge ought to fare just fine. Channel 4 is saying strong tropical-storm to minimal hurricane-force wind in the BR area.
But, yes, we will watch on television as New Orleans -- quite possibly -- is wiped out tomorrow. Many people will die, bless their souls. And the whole country will pay dearly . . . the price of oil surpassed $70 a barrel today.
BTW, I'm watching Channel 4's streaming video on the Internet. Go to www.wwltv.com.
I've been trying to impress upon Mrs. Favog the utter awesomeness of such a force of nature, but she's having a hard time grasping the magnitude, or how that even could be. I was four at the time, but I vividly remember Hurricane Betsy in 1965 . . . and that was riding it out in BR.
Folks describe that kind of wind as sounding like a jet engine. That is true, but incomplete. The SUSTAINED WIND sounds like a jet engine. The gusts sound like screaming demons from the bowels of Hell.
-- Favog
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