I wrote the following a few months ago and sent copies to a few friends. People have been pestering me to publish it so here it is in all it's glory typos and all. In case you have no idea what it is about - it is in response to an editorial published in the Chicago Tribune by some conservative assclown. It's easily googled ( Read more... )

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We might be okay for tourists....but, we are still not okay for ourselves

For late August it had been a busy week business wise. I remember not being well prepared for that. Decadence was shaping up to be huge festival with guests (as opposed to promoters etc...) arriving already. The phone was ringing not just with clients but with Miles trying to get into town on time and having transportation difficulties, and Mark ( Read more... )

On Thursday, August 25th Katrina became Hurricane Katrina for the first time. She arrived in Florida as a Cat 1 Hurricane. Interestingly enough her eye passed directly over the National Hurricane Center during her visit. On her visit to the “Sunshine State” she caused over a billion worth of damages, created over a dozen fatalities, and left over a ( Read more... )

"Tropical Depression 12" sat off the coast of Florida just as many before it had. By the end of the day it was upgraded to a tropical storm also as many before had. It was given the name Katrina. Even then the name sounded a bit foreboding...a bitch in the making as it were ( Read more... )

I don't recall that day ( Read more... )

When I read over things about that year they always talk about how it was such a horrible season from start to finish. I don't recall that. I remember how people talked about it snowing in December and how whenever it snows we get hit with a bad storm (turns out not to be true). It seemed like a normal season...hotter than usual maybe a little ( Read more... )

Shortly, after I moved to NOLA FEMA stated that a hurricane in NOLA was one of the top disaster that the US should plan for. I was rather shocked when I looked at the City's Hurricane Plan (under Mayor Marc Morial) or lack there of. The entire plan seemed to be let's order about 40,000 body bags. I often find myself wondering if that is where ( Read more... )

To live in NOLA is to accept certain things...that was true long before Katrina. I think the same could be said of many coastal for communities and even non-coastal communities. If you live in LA you live with earthquakes and the possibility of the big one; if you live in the Midwest you live with tornadoes and the possibility of super storms. ( Read more... )