Hurricane Gustav - Interests in Louisiana should take action now.

As with any hurricane that is on a predicted course, the people in its path should prepare and not rely on the government to evacuate them a few days prior. Interests from the east coast of Texas to the Panhandle of Florida are possible targets, with Louisiana, and its famous city New Orleans as the bullseye. Hurricane Gustav had formed, and now downgraded to tropical storm, is still anticipated to strengthen within the next 48 hours. If you are in a low lying area, or within the city of New Orleans, you should start to prepare now. This would prevent another Katrina from decimating this wonderful cities occupants. But, there will still be people that wait until the last minute to evacuate. The state should have a better response now then it did in the past, soon we shall find out. The state should focus on extracting the elderly and disabled citizens first, issue a statement to the public of the projected path of Gustav, possible scenarios of the areas of impact and implement a voluntary evacuation now. Failure to take action could mean loss of life, and a recreation of prior events. Hurricanes you can predict and have forewarning, other disaster you do not, there should be no excuse for loss of life for a hurricane, as long as the public is aware. These hurricanes come and go in cycles, just like many other cycles here on Earth. We have seen these cycles come around time after time, so why should you not prepare for the events to unfold, and what about December 21 2012? Ice ages come and go over millions of years, global warming as well, but what exactly causes these cycles? No one is for sure, but just like the smaller cycles, just like Katrina, we as humans can learn and overcome, and prepare for what lies ahead.