The track of and the second landfall for Katrina depends on a continued weakening of an upper ridge of high pressure over the Southeast, a digging upper-level trough of low pressure over the Midwest and a building ridge of high pressure east of Florida. These three factors will combine to steer Katrina on a northwest and eventually northerly track Sunday into Monday morning. The most recent computer models show a consensus track over southeastern Louisiana. Our latest thinking is that Katrina will make landfall Monday morning over extreme southeastern Louisiana. Conditions are already deteriorating along the Mississippi delta well ahead of the storm, with tropical storm-force winds. Hurricane-force winds will reach the coast Sunday night then spread north. The winds will be strong enough to down not only trees and power lines but also bring down structures and make missiles out of objects that are not tied down. As the storm nears the coast Monday, a devastating storm surge will be pushed into the lower Mississippi Delta as the powerful southeasterly winds pile water into the area. The storm will also bring flooding rain well inland and the risk for tornadoes north and east of the path of the center.

If you were planning on staying and ride it out, If this isn't enough to change your mind about leaving, you must be committing suicide!