‘Evacuate NOW!’: What it was like to sound the alarm ahead of Hurricane Katrina | NYGazet

It was my first season of hurricane blogging, and I had an uneasy feeling about a tropical storm moving toward the Gulf.

I first started blogging for Weather Underground, the weather service I founded, in the spring of 2005. For the first few months, it was a slow time for interesting weather events, and I had trouble finding topics to write about. I was relieved when ... [5038 chars]