Half of the local media almost sound disappointed that this has not blown up into a cat 2 yet. We have been waiting for this "Tropical" storm to hit hurricane status and it looks broken and deformed. Dry air is ripping it thus far and its scattered. Way too much is being made of Katrina anniversary on the exact same day of landfall...Wed. We might take a head on here and still hold up fine but have bookoo rain, hope not. This is not a Katrina, no way no how. That was cat 5 off shore day prior and fell to sudden 3 on landfall. We didn't evacuate tonight and city did not go mandatory. Nice thing was to see a 30 deep convoy of National Guard drive past street today...as opposed to 4 days later after the shit had hit the fan Next update at 4 AM here and pulling an all nighter, and twisting off bottle caps!