Not looking good down here, folks. Wind "swath" projections, which this morning showed Category 3 winds just hitting the coast and Baton Rouge getting only tropical storm winds, now shows Category 4 winds almost to the coast, Category 3 winds inland past Morgan City, and Category 1 winds in Baton Rouge. US Navy track seems to concur.
The good news is there seem to be more preparations. There are buses staged here in Baton Rouge (we saw several dozen in a parking lot on Florida Boulevard), and my parents - who are coming up here from New Orleans via Airline Highway - said they just saw "dozens and dozens" of school buses staged at Zephyr Field in Jefferson Parish (just outside of New Orleans).
UPDATE: My folks left New Orleans about 4:30, and got here (Baton Rouge) about 6:45. They went up Airline Highway, not the Interstate. According to my father, after the airport the traffic flowed pretty much normal.
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