Stuck in ATL at the moment, New Orleans airport completely closed. I work in disaster recovery.

Josh santiny a grand isle firefighter says everything is okay and everyone survived.

Another person says the coast guard flew over grand isle as there is no road access currently and that the crew on the ground gave a thumbs up and were trying to clear the roads.

And with that I am satisfied that everyone survived the storm and there are not 40 people needing rescue.

Facts are facts. Even here at the lunatic fringe. Sheesh.

Hard to get any real information down there

Calls keep failing

As far as I can tell Flight line First FBO is the only one open

Not sure what’s going on

Calls just drop

Baton Rouge is open

I am getting my info about grand isle from f roberts a news reporter at Baton Rouge advocate.

Also you can go on Facebook grand isle and look at the comments from the mayor and the fire department.

I like a good conspiracy as well as anyone but when you are talking about lives I like facts.

Daniel Higdon welcome. Good to see ya.

ATL Is in fact in Georgia.. but yea you should still get out

Thanks for the update, LAO!

Why didn't you plan to drive there? You work in Disaster recovery? Who does the planning?

I must have missed the part where he said ha had fema contract

I am seeing reports that a family member has posted on facebook that they are all fine and survived. I don't know them personally and I'm not on facebook so no way for me to confirm what is being said on facebook.

One of the articles that I found said that someone saw them from a helicopter but weren't able to rescue them right away. Another article said that they rescued a separate group that were in a hotel on Grand Isle. Why didn't they get the first responders at the multiplex too?

Some funny things going on with the story. I especially thought it was odd that the police chief told them on the phone call to "make it stop." Why would a man who lives in Louisiana and has likely gone through multiple storms tell someone to "make it stop" when discussing a hurricane? Just doesn't make sense unless he was completely panicked? Or does he know something else? Either way, not good.

activated charcoal is great for anything stomach! it used to be called the universal antidote.

Great suggestion.

Silver works wonders on infections.

so there's a bomb threat going on at the ATL airport?

What's going on with that?

We have Bigfoot at Midway.

you can drive quicker

Yes. Drive there.

He iz gettn on my fukn nerves...

Chief: Ida hit Louisiana town hit harder than Katrina did

Grand Isle Police Chief Scooter Resweber and other officers ventured out early Monday to check on the nearly 100 residents who had stayed behind. He said many residents regretted that decision, although no one was seriously hurt.

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First time I've seen that almost 100 residents stayed behind on Grand Isle. Sounds like the first responders are okay.

Most people who stay for a Hurricane end up saying

Never again…

How did they get to PR, by chartered plane and they had a seat available? Or boat? Just curious.