gustav damage
finally got around to pulling the photos off my camera's card. Here's the photobucket album: http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q233/valnac/gustav%2008/?albumview=slideshow
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cleanup
This morning we hauled a bunch of branches and debris to the street. Good timing, because a crew of bobcats and dumptrucks came through in the afternoon to load it all up and take it away. There is still more to be done in the yard, but we have at least made a dent. Still trying to get a tree crew...
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kadang! We are empowered and encabled here at the domus. There were power company trucks all over the neighborhood yesterday, blocking off roads and making it hard to get around. This morning, a cable truck drove between our house and the neighbor's to muck around with a transformer or something. I...
Danny Glover on New Orleans & 'Trouble the Water'
More at http://www.therealnews.com/c.php?c=080301YT Danny Glover on post-Katrina New Orleans and the new film "Trouble the water"
DGW Episode 653
Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Lecture and Lecture Notes Recorder Link: Livescribe From the creator of the Leapfrog Flypen (Episode 14) and its improved successor Fly Fusion (Episode 386), Jim Marggraff, the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen takes the idea to a higher level (both in terms of capabilities and...
Pls donate for Haiti hurricane relief via Partners in Health (Boston)
Hurricane Gustav is been like the 3rd hurricane to hit Haiti in a very short time (less than a month?). Hardest hit this time is the major community of GONAIVES ("go-nah-EEV"). Here's the link to a synopsis + the PIH donations page. Thanks so much, and welcome to my site on Vox.
hey you guys!
update from the electric company: My neighborhood was one of the hardest hit areas of the city. Consequently, the cleanup there will be most difficult, and they don't expect us to have power for at least two weeks. If you open this map (a pdf file) you'll see a big blob of orange (you cannot miss...
Hanna moves on land
As I type this, I can hear the incessant rain and the intermittant winds. Something rather big hit the roof and woke me up at 5:50 am. The cats slept in my room in the corner, against the wall. They were on edge all afternoon as the storm drew closer. Last night, they watched me, when I was reading...
Hurricane Gustav and Disaster readiness - Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia McKinney talks about issues regarding Hurricane Gustav and disaster readiness. The 311 system implemented in New Orleans since Katrina, is failing. The National Guard and its equipment should be at home to provide readiness and assistance for the impending tropical storms rather than...
after the storm
Louisiana was hit hard. Baton Rouge was hit hard. Our house was hit hard. Monday was the weirdest day: the storm was almost all wind and hardly any rain. I really wish it had been the other way. We were sitting in the dining room, playing a board game when a tree branch crashed through the roof and...
The ins and outs.
My heart goes out to my brethren in New Orleans, LA. I am glad to hear that things are not as terrible as they were during Katrina. Fortunately, the city appears to be mostly spared and seems to have gotten through the storm. This, though, I fear, could be the onset of a complacency generated by the...
Obama with A Slight Bounce in Poll
CBS/New York Times has Obama with a slight bounce, up 48%-40%. The GOP Convention was supposed to be St Paul's chance shine and grow richer, but instead has been eclipsed by hurricane Gustav.
The Katrina aftermath made known by Gustav
Well another levee in Louisiana is on the verge of failing because it was still not properly repaired in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This is just SAD on so many levels. First off, it is scary for the people that depend on that levee to protect them and could have lost all that they had for the...
Governer Barbour and the "warder"...here we go again...
Three years ago when Katrina hit, the whole nation was probably inclined to judge Mississippians as a bunch of idiots because our governor cannot say "water"...instead, he told national news channels that we were "worried about the warder." I heard that word and its infamous mispronunciation again...
Gustav, Gustav, Go AWAY!
Pardon my language but hurricanes SUCK! Gustav is busy tearing apart one of my favorite places to park the motorhome...my SIL's home in Chauvin, Louisiana. This is their beautiful front yard complete with hundred year old oaks and a Louisiana Bayou. The eye of the storm passed there a few hours ago....
relaxing?
Maybe the worst is over, and its all so much better than we had been told. i'm concerned about the barges floating upriver from st. rose. hopefully they won't bang into the levee and spill the entire mississippi river into our yards. that sounds overly dramatic, but ask any of the levee inspectors...
Geology Newz: September 1, 2008: SE coast of N America = Hurricane Alley
TD = Tropical Depression = Tropical mass of thunderstorms with a cyclonic wind circulation and winds up to 39 mph TS = Tropical Storm = A cyclonic storm having winds ranging from 40 mph - 73 mph Where I had typed "TD is trying to form" in the photo above, is now TD 9 with sustained winds of 35 mph...
Anatomy of a Hurricane
I found this over at BoingBoing. If the explanations of hurricanes and their force was never clear to you, this is a great video to explain why and how they get to be such enormous storms. I'd also recommend Isaac's Storm, by Erik Larson. That's the tale of a huge hurricane that nearly wiped...
ugh
its five thirty in the morning and can't sleep at all. good news: Gustav is a 3 without likely strengthening. godamm keyboard. always i press the up key or something instead of enter and my cursor goes back. whatever moving on.. the pressure is rising slightly and parts of it are described as...
