Hurricane Gustav

IF YOU NEED TO CONTACT US AFTER OR DURING THE HURRICANE AND THE PHONE LINES ARE DOWN OR BUSY AND CELLS DON'T WORK THEY TELL US TEXT MESSAGING IS THE BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE.  
We are boarded up and going to ride out Hurricane Gustav. I know many think we're crazy but we have weighed our options and the risks. Staying here is best for my health safety and because of its current track we feel that we are out of the hurricanes main path. We are boarded up with lots of water, a great generator, gas, tons of food and batteries.
We are 57 miles east from the Louisiana - Mississippi boarder and about 30 miles west from the Mississippi - Alabama line. Our elevation is 27 feet and about 3-4 miles in-land from the gulf. So though we are south of I-10 and just north of Hwy 90 we are directly behind a spit of land that jets out into the Gulf so we are farther then most from the gulf water. If you want to track the storm click on the 'GREEN' Hurricane Gustav that I previously typed and it will take you to up-to-date weather alerts. This is a current picture of the projected path.

If your interested here is the history of Hurricane Gustav and the expected effects on Jackson County...
Hurricane Gustav is the seventh tropical cyclone, third hurricane and second major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed on the morning of August 25, about 260 miles (420 km) southeast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and rapidly strengthened into a tropical storm that afternoon and into a hurricane early on August 26. Later that day it made landfall near the Haitian town of Jacmel. 85 deaths have been attributed to Gustav as of August 31, 2008.[1][2] It intensified from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane in less than 24 hours. [3]
At 11 a.m. Eastern time, the U.S. hurricane center says Gustav was centered about 325 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and moving northwest near 17 miles-per-hour. Gustav is a Category 3 storm with top sustained winds of 120 miles-per-hour.
Jackson County is calling for a “Mandatory Evacuation” for all residents living in low-lying areas, mobile homes, MEMA Cottages, and FEMA travel trailers in advance of tropical storm force winds by 8 a.m. Sunday morning (Aug. 31). Travel trailers and mobile homes present serious safety hazards to occupants during high winds. Evacuation is the safest thing residents can do to protect themselves in case of a major storm.
Storm Surge +/- 10 feet
6-12 inches of rain fall
Winds 40-75 mph (our home delt with over 100 mph winds during Katrina and we had very little shingle damage)
Hurricane information Hotline (228)897-6897