With Ivan making a beeline for NOLA we did all of our shopping for supplies yesterday. Our list included: Lots of Water (15 Gallons), canned food, fruit, batteries, 6 bags of ice, 1 bottle of Jack Daniels, 1 bottle of Suaza, beer, wine, smokes, candles and personal needs. We also boarded up the windows and tied everything down. Our entire block is staying. People are a little scared because of the size of this storm and the possibilty of this being “The One”. Later today I will bag up my computers and we will bag up all important papers. If the storm seems to being heading straight for us we will begin to raise everything off of the floor. The house is almost 4 feet above th street but with the 15′ surge we could have even more water. I will try and post again before I bag the computer up.