Please keep the folks of South Louisiana in your thoughts as Isaac pounds New Orleans on this the 7th anniversary of Katrina.

I'm trying to put together a playlist of songs that directly reference Hurricane Katrina. I have a handful, but I'm hoping y'all can think of others. Ones I already have:

"All I Need": Mat Kearney

A pool is running for miles on the concrete ground

We're eight feet deep and the rain is still coming down

The TV's playing it all out of town

We're ( Read more... )

In Louisiana, those territorial divisions within a state that are usually called "counties" are instead called "parishes". For example, I live in East Baton Rouge Parish. The metropolitan area of New Orleans is actually split between two parishes -- Jefferson Parish and Orleans Parish ( Read more... )

So I'm reading this memoir written by one of the French Quarter holdouts during Katrina, and he's talking about how he and some of his friends dubbed themselves the Krewe of Nagin after hearing the mayor's tirade on the radio. He immediately explains in the next sentence that they were making reference to the groups that put on the Mardi Gras ( Read more... )

When I first heard about it two days ago, it was still a tropical storm and wasn't even to Haiti yet. Yesterday, folks were talking about it, and this morning I get an email reminder to sign up for the university's emergency text messaging system. Yes, folks, it's official. A hurricane is in the Gulf and Louisiana is on alert. It would be ( Read more... )

Book #58 -- Andreé M Maduell, 9/18-EBR-ZERO: Hauntings of Katrina, 83 pages ( Read more... )

I'm reading this book, a mystery that's set in a small town in Louisiana. This fictional town is in the process of recovering from the devastating fictional hurricane Bernardine. It is quite clear that Bernardine is a stand-in for Katrina ( Read more... )

A soldier stationed in Mississippi, about Katrina: "This hurricane was like God and the Devil fighting it out here with Godzilla as the referee."

So I'm reading another book on Katrina. That's what I get for starting a project like this. Anyway, they're talking about the conference call that was held the day before Katrina hit, in which a hurricane specialist spoke to the President. People have asked how the President could not have known there was the potential for the levees to breach ( Read more... )

Da Mayor in Your Pocket

Hee! Everyone in Louisiana should have one of these.