BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) -
Within
hours of Governor Bobby Jindal's news conference Sunday updating the public on
Tropical Storm Isaac, many families headed to the stores to stock up on water
and supplies.
"We
have to get it done," said Paul Anderson. "You want to be prepared
and not stuck out in the last minute and wondering how you are going to get
something, especially with small kids like we have."
However,
not all of those who made the trip would be as lucky, with water flying off the
shelves quicker than it could be stocked. Gas was a hot commodity as well. Mike
Arbour was among some folks on Siegen Lane that beat the masses to the pump.
"Last
time I got caught in about a four-hour wait for gasoline and this time I was
certain I wasn't going to do that," Arbour said.
"This
is the state of Louisiana," added Ben Zare of Baton Rouge. "These kinds
of hurricanes come and go. It affects us five or seven days in a row
business-wise and gas-wise, everything else."
Everything
else could mean mandatory evacuations for thousands of residents. The
orders will come down from individual parishes and Jindal urged for the word to
come sooner rather than later.
"If
parishes are going to call for mandatory evacuations, tomorrow morning would be
the time to do it, in terms of giving people time to get out of harm's
way," Jindal explained. "You really don't want to wait much longer
than that."
Waiting was
not an option for Anderson.
"It's
worth it. I mean with small kids, whatever you have to do you have to do
it."
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