I made a mistake by thinking I know better than the hurricane center.  I input the forecast data and draped on top of my data a couple of days ago.  Yesterday it forecast moving from west to east so I assumed that the hurricane would continue to the east and miss our house.  Here we are now with T-8 hours and the track of the eye is now directly over my house.  We should have left yesterday but now it is too late.  Anyway, we have plan B in effect and have to ride out this storm.  Tough lesson to learn but I am putting away my forecast capabilities and leaving it to the experts.  Click below to view the track of Hurricane Gustav.  The yellow line is the track, the blue dots are the times when the hurrican will be in that location and the red vertical line at the end is my house with the vertical exagerated to view it from  space. 

Gustav Hurrican Track

Not cool !!!