Brad Vogel departed his home in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans early Saturday morning, one among more than a million persons from the city and surrounding coastal regions of Louisiana that have evacuated their homes over the weekend in advance of Hurricane Gustav.
A native of Kiel, Wisconsin and 2006 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vogel is a co-founder of Letters in Bottles, a blog covering politics and pop culture both in Madison and around the world, and an alumnus of the Badger Herald editorial board. He had just started his second year at Tulane University Law School last week before classes were suspended in anticipation of the storm, which is currently projected to hit Louisiana with considerable strength.