i'm rooting for New Orleans

While this hurricane thing has been fun as a hypothetical excercise in the past, now the weather channel is telling me the best city west of denver and south of new york is in peril (of course, having been through a few weather channel hurricanes, I think their predicitions can also be a hypothetical excercise). I'd like to think they're wrong - I want to know all my bars will still be there. Not to mention the however-many -hundred-thousand of people who won't be able to leave the city.
Good luck.