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Edit: The report I linked has since been edited and no longer contains the quoted text.

Holy cow. Since when does NOAA use the word "will" in forecasts of destruction? At first I thought the quotes I was seeing from this report were fake, until someone posted a link to the NOAA site.

"MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED."

There was a storm just a year or two ago that was predicted to flood New Orleans and it missed, but this sounds awfully certain. I hope the people who didn't get out in time find some way to be safe in all that.

insomnia has been posting information and is trying to hook up LJ users with crash space, though at this point I gather the problem is getting out of the city at all.

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siderea just pointed out that it's no longer there, so I suspect our first instincts (fake) were right.

[paquerette.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps they just noticed that their server was getting hammered, looked around the referrers and rethought the wording of it. I guess there's a fine line between erring on the side of caution and inciting a panic.