Hurricane Gustav

... is making landfall as I write this entry. I am currently anticipating being deployed in the near future (24-48 hours) to the region. Depends on the amount of damage, the needs of the evacuees, and what NDMS decides to do. For those of you who are curious, there are teams that have been "pre-deployed", and are staged (waiting) in safe locations in nearby states. Others are already handling special needs populations that were evacuated to Dallas and other areas.

I just heard on the news (NBC) that the storm surge is topping one of the levees. Not good, folk. There is also a barge and a boat on the loose in one of the canals. They can actually damage the levees.