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faceman said

I believe you may be thinking of Ivan, Georges had Biloxi in the cross hairs the minute it exited the Dominican Republic.

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That wasn't the way I recall it being covered in the New Orleans area. Keep in mind that Georges was the first storm where New Orleans-area parishes started calling for evacuations of the city and immediate suburbs. I can't remember if they were mandatory or voluntary evacuations, but the powers that be called them.

Locally, Georges was being treated as a grave danger to New Orleans itself. Back then, I wasn't following storm tracks online, but I do remember them on the local news broadcasts and special reports at the time. Seemed like with maybe a day and a half to go, the tracks were aiming for eastern St. Bernard Parish or a Slidell landfall. That last-minute subtle jog east into the Mississippi Gulf Coast, among many New Orleanians, was treated as a "we lucked out" last-minute turn.

These days, Georges' late jog east may well have been predicted earlier on -- and that prediction would've been online and more people would've expected it.