"You need to be scared and you need to get your butts out of New Orleans right now," New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said

Hurricane Gustav is forecasted to hit New Orleans-Baton Rouge area on Monday. In typical dramatic fashion, Mayor Ray Nagin said this is the MOTHER OF ALL HURRICANE. Bigger than Katrina, bigger than Betsy. Right now Hurricane Gustav is a category 4 storm with 150mph wind. Get your butt out of New Orleans right now! This is the message being repeated over and over on radio and tv for the past 24 hours. See www.nola.com for more detail. This weekend was supposed to be holiday weekend. Our friend from Houston canceled her trip to New Orleans. The last flight out of New Orleans is scheduled on Sunday, beyond there, no more flight from New Orleans.

So we starting packing up on Friday night, and we didn't know where to go until the very last minute because hotels in 200miles radius north of New Orleans were totally booked up. In the end we decided to go to Memphis, Tennessee, the land of Elvis Presley. We drove 380miles yesterday (7hours) to Tennessee and only managed to get hotel reservation for 2 nights. Hotels were sold out after that and we will probably have to stay with friend.




Military planes started flying into New Orleans as we sit in heavy traffic trying to drive to Tennessee to escape Hurricane Gustav.
We arrived in Memphis, tomorrow we will go see Elvis Presley home. But we first we are eating BBQ ribs that are famous in Memphis.

The ribs are so good! It is worth the 7 hours drive.