I've been avoiding pretty much all mention of it in the media, in part because I truly needed to avoid a rage blackout, but I didn't want to let today go by without remembering Hurricane Katrina.

• What I wrote then.
• Two years after.
• Courtesy of
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Seven years ago, I watched the news and the buildup and the weather-tracking, and I bit my lip, and I didn't say anything, and I didn't say anything, and I didn't say anything, because I was superstitious enough to worry that doing so would be like drawing the unwanted attention of some inimical force, and that maybe if I didn't say anything it ( Read more... )

Some of you may know that I lived in New Orleans for four years during university. It is a city I loved dearly then and still do now, and one that lies at the heart of a great many cherished memories.

I made a trip back on vacation in October, 2004. At the time I was visiting, so was Tropical Storm Matthew. I remember laughing about it at the ( Read more... )

Rumor has it that fuel shortages may affect flights to regional airports outside New Orleans and Gulfport, resulting in delays and cancellations.

Atlanta's on that list.

Nothing is confirmed yet -- but keep a close eye on your schedules, okay? If I see/receive more definitive information, I'll post it.

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these?

--Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene 4 ( Read more... )