I hope that you will reconsider. Your life and the lives of your family members are what's really important. Your business can be rebuilt or replaced, Eric. I hope the national guard will force you to leave soon. God be with you.

It looks like even Mother Nature is for Barack Obama & the Democratic Party!

I am a Civil Engineer who specializes in drainage. Please remind folks that even if the storm gets downgraded below a Cat 3 before landfall, if it stalls, the RAIN can do an awful lot of damage. Aside from wind speed (which gives a storm its category), and aside from storm surge, simple RAINFALL can also be deadly, as we have learned from the Midwest this year. Floodwaters during a hurricane don't just come from the shoreline – they also come from the sky. Stalled hurricanes can dump incredible amounts of rainfall on a city.

His idea to stay behind may not be the best thing for him to do. However, I admire his selflessness and dedication to feed those who will probably spend a LOT of time around the clock, after Gustav, helping others. There are a lot of emergence personel, police officers, and news workers who need to eat. God bless you Barry and Eric, God be with you.

Eric,

Business is important but without your life, it ain't worth any thing, so please consider again and leave. I know you mean well but nobody can really help you. Only you.

Please do reconsider and leave. You can replace a building.....you can't replace a person. It's not worth it and doesn't prove anything. You are setting a bad example.

Please, this is not about politics, it's about peoples lives. We need to be praying.

Hope you're insured

man i hope you dont be stupid and stay get out when you have a chance

We need to take responsibility for our wellbeing with our actions, not rely on prayer or God. People should listen to engineers and meteorologists, consider the consequences, and act. Action saves more lives than prayer, prayer is a crutch for those without the courage to act, and judging from comments on all issues, we are deteriorating into a nation that relies on praying when it should be acting.

I have mixed feelings about this. While I'm glad he's staying open for cops and reporters, his safety is also at risk. He should leave now; better to be safe than sorry.

Eric, God Bless you and your Family, but ain't worth it to risk your life. Go to Las Vegas with your mom and make you money there.

I will pray that everything will be ok for you... God Speed
My Prayers are with all of you there on the Gulf Coast

Good luck young fella!

You can replace a business,you can't replace your life.There are no shelters or hospitals and I don't think 911 is an option.Did this guy and his family actually watch what happened the last time? All I can say you are definately not in Kansas anymore.

I'm sorry I just don't understand why anyone wouldn't evacuate like everyone else. It's not like last time. I read on CNN online about people who think they have to stay because they have no money and no car. These people actually plan on staying in N.O. They don't think the Weather Channel weatherman know what they are talking about. They only trust the local news people. How could anyone think that the city or the state even the federal government would make them stay because they don't have money or a car. How can these people not know that they could take a bus or plain for free to a safe place. I just don't understand it.These people think that they will be able to survive it alone on their own. I'm sorry I don't understand. Even people who moved down there to help rebuild are staying. This all makes me so angry. Do they not realize that their lives matter.

Please,please leave,for your safety, and for your dads safety,the workers will have ready meals to eat!

CNN's Abby is on scene with homeless outreach and others choosing to remain – they don't know if officials will know where they are- abandoned houses -why haven't citizens been notified way ahead of time how to mark the spot where they are waiting it out so overhead searchers can find them in aftermath. What happened to preemptive???

keep those CRAB CAKES coming. God bless you and Pop.

All I have heard today is how inadequate the levies are in NOLA, and I would love to know what they have been doing for the last three years when they have been supposedly improving the levies. I mean do they think the american public are that stupid?

They have done very little to upgrade the levies and have proven once again how two faced this administration has been from the get go.

I wish the people of NOLA the very best in the upcoming storm