All Katrina, All The Time

Hurricane Katrina
CrabAppleLane still firmly in the green. New Orleans is roughly 30º N and 90ºW. CrabAppleLane is about 50 miles due north on that 90º line. That circle at 30ºN90ºW is Lake Pontchartrain.

Hard to believe it is this serene here right now. It is a beautiful Sunday. Thinking of the past when people had zero warning when what was maybe thought to be a thunderstorm just kept getting worse for 10 or 12 hours. Don’t know what today and tomorrow holds for us here. We’ll ride it out and hope for the best. We live in a rural area and we’ll hope everyone within a 20 mile radius has their trash hauled inside or hope they’re the ones who have a garbage can lid or a sundial crash through their dormer window. That’s always the part that concerns me. No matter what I do, some jackass down the street could have left town without securing everything in his yard. We expect the power to go out (No generator here) and the phones to go down but we’ll have our cells charged up. Another part of rural life: I have to go out to the street to get any kind of signal, assuming there will be signals to be had during this thing. I plan to blog with pictures here while I’m not outside making preparations.

CFFL Draft Day (Go Ragpickers) is postponed due to Hurricane Katrina, and 11 days until football season (Go Saints) begins...............

Quote of the Day

Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a test. This is the real deal.

Mayor Ray Nagin, City of New Orleans

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "But for those open-source extremists, they believe everything must be free, and they must get hold of latest version of whatever software."