More than 200 students from Tulane University at New Orleans have now been evacuated to Georgia Tech campus. We got a mail yesterday from the president of the university, asking us to receive them well. Some will use the stay to contact their families and relocate to them, others will likely stay with GTech till they can return to their home campus. The GTech students are raising money for them.

It appears that in general quite a few people from the areas afflicted by the storm have seeken refuge in Atlanta. See for instance this article from one of the local newspapers. It's a very strange feeling being in a state just north of where Katrina ravaged so much, it is warm and sunny here and everything looks normal when you look out the window. So far the reports on CNN has seemed as surreal to me as they probably have to people in Denmark. But now it suddenly seems much more real.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 15:34