Because I hear it is the highest point in Louisiana.|||yes it's far enough to avoid the storm surge but it could still get high winds and street flooding as well as a loss of power from falling trees.|||Baton Rouge is not the highest point in LA. BR is an OK place for evacuation, but farther away from the coast is better. BR can lose electric power and have extensive flooding from wind & rain even if a hurricane only side-swipes southeast Louisiana. That was what happened in 2008 for hurricane Gustav, and BR lost electric power longer than New Orleans because the storm's wind patterns meant higher winds in BR than NO. If you are planning to stay in a hotel you are also better off moving farther away. Hotel costs in a 300 mile radius from New Orleans skyrocket with "special hurricane rates" when an evacuation is expected. I would suggest going to Memphis, which is 400 miles from New Orleans. Memphis won't lose electric power and it's far enough away that hotel rates won't be affected..|||I would suggest going farther north. Up by Ruston maybe, or farther to Monroe. I evacuated from New Orleans to Baton Rouge during Gustav. My home in NO didn't lose power and didn't get hit too bad and where I stayed in Baton Rouge lost power. I had to take cold showers and all this...I would just recommend going northwest because the hurricanes usually turn east once they hit landfall, but BR is too close to the coast to be completely 100% safe. Plus, even if it was the highest point in LA, that doesn't matter when you have hurricane force winds throwing debris at you.|||For one, It's not the highest point in Louisiana. Were no where near a high point. But It's a safe place to go if your worried about storm surge. But for winds, No. We may not be on the coast but we still get hurricane force winds which brings down trees and blows roofs off. I would suggest north Louisiana or Mississippi.|||Yeah it's safe, sort of... You always have the worry of a tree landing on the place you are staying or the roof coming off from strong winds, but chances are more in your favor of not having that happen. It will be hot, crowded, low on supplies and miserable, but it will be safe, sort of...

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