To keep up with the latest coordinates every few hours on Gustav and the continually changing projections for where it’s actually going to go – click here. This is the National Hurricane Center’s website page that is tracking Gustav.
Just about all that is on our local (New Orleans) television stations now is weather information, evacuation [...]
Posted in Gustav, Katrina, Tom & Me on August 27th, 2008 7 Comments »
Click here to see the National Weather Service’s 5 day projection of where Hurricane Gustav is headed.
Everyone down here, including me and Tom, are rapidly making preparations for the worst. That is all we can do to be safe.
This afternoon, I will be stocking up on essentials for a bad hurricane and getting cash. [...]
We’re back home from the Mississippi Press Association’s summer convention and had a blast! We went over to Biloxi to the lovely Beau Rivage early Thursday morning and got home yesterday (Sunday) afternoon about 2:30 p.m. We met and visited with a lot of our newspaper friends, ate lots of really good food and even [...]
This Sunday will begin our third Atlantic hurricane season since Katrina (August 29, 2005). It will last until December 1.
The past two summers and falls along the Gulf Coast have been very quiet. I hope it stays that way. Once in a lifetime was too much of what Katrina involved.
The local (New Orleans) television and [...]
. . . go back and read the posts I did all through and following Hurricane Katrina. You can find them in my archives to the right by reading the posts in August 2005 (Aug. 28 through the end of the month – the 31st) and September 2005 (from the beginning through at least the [...]
Thunderstorms have been crackling and booming in the past several afternoons. Very loudly and ferociously.
Tom says that when storms move from east to west, against the flow in the U. S., which is normally west to east, at least generally, the thunder and lightening are much worse.
I don’t know about that, but it seems [...]
Do y’all realize that we have been living in limbo now for a year and a half!?!
Seventeen and 1/2 months, to be exact. I would – could – tell you the days, hours and minutes, but I won’t stop to add them all up. I know them by heart in my own heart, for sure.
It [...]
The huge sign plywood sign was the most prominent feature of the place. It was painted white with the words "LOST and FOUND LOUNGE" hand lettered with broad strokes of black paint and set out by the four lane roadway outside Waveland, Mississippi, one of the most poor and devastated areas hit by Katrina.
It was [...]
You must go to this link at Digital Journalist to read about and to see "The Ordeal of Ted Jackson" from it’s December 2005 issue online. It is overwhelming in scope just as Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee breaks afterward were. Ted offers his own deeply emotional words and thoughts, too, in video [...]
Today I’m sharing three short, real life, inspirational stories with you. All three are totally different, having only in common a deep reverence and enthusiasm for life. I believe each one is vastly important, or else I wouldn’t be putting each here today.
I want you each to please take a few minutes to go [...]