Five years ago: All Katrina, All The Time
It's Sunday. Hurricane Katrina is headed our way. She's a Category 5 hurricane and she is enormous. She's due to come ashore near New Orleans tomorrow morning. Most of the residents and businesses there have evacuated or are in the process of evacuation. We've made the decision to stay home and ride it out. Mom is coming up from Kenner to stay with us. CrabAppleLane is about 15 miles north of Interstate 12 and evacuation is voluntary. The area south of I-12 is under a mandatory evacuation order. It's very calm here. We're about as ready as we can be. We've been through hurricanes before. We can fend for ourselves for a few days. We expect services to be restored before we run out of anything. They always are.
5 song iTune shuffle from the CrabAppleLane Five Star playlist:
- Prairie Wedding - Mark Knopfler - Sailing To Philadelphia
- You've Got Another Thing Comin' - Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
- Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) - The Hollies - Rock Of The 70's
- Not Fragile (Quad Mix) - Bachman-Turner Overdrive - The Anthology [Disc 2]
- In My Time Of Dying - Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti [Disc 1]
Quote of the Day
The Saints might have plucked another exciting young running back from the ranks of the undrafted. Rookie Chris Ivory turned a swing pass into a tackle-breaking, zigzagging, 76-yard score in New Orleans' 36-21 preseason victory over the San Diego Chargers on Friday night.
NFL.com
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "Two days after Katrina hit, 80% of New Orleans was flooded and some places were 15 feet under water. The storm supposedly caused 50 breaches in levees, built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers."
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Love the "five years after" stuff, Rob. What an experience.
I agree with, Dan. I'm not sure, but I think this was when I started reading your blog, having been led here by Kem. I'm so glad you and Patsy are okay.
My daughter sent me this link, which I found fascinating, sobering, and artistic. I thought you might appreciate it, if you haven't already seen it, too:
http://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition
That *is* a fascinating site, Marie.
Thanks, Dan.
Thanks, Marie. I've seen more of those markings in real life than I care to remember. It's very sobering to me. I always felt I was intruding on something solemn just looking at one. Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose has a book out about a house he used to pass that had a marking on it. Simply:
1 dead in attic
How could anyone see that and not be affected?
1 dead in attic - Still have trouble getting through it
http://www.nola.com/rose/t-p/index.ssf?/rose/katrina/1_dead_in_attic.html