Day 986: Cyclone Nargis Flood Maps
Posted on May 10, 2008 - Filed Under aid, global, mapping, weather | Leave a Comment
IFRC: Aid moving out but more needed
[As of May 9th,] over 220,000 people have received some form of aid from government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), other organizations and the general public. Over 80,000 of them have been served by Myanmar Red Cross … “Food, hygiene kits, water purification tablets, mosquito nets, sanitary supplies and most importantly […]
Day 910: Fog On The River
Posted on February 23, 2008 - Filed Under new orleans, pictures, weather | Leave a Comment
gently wafts into the Quarter.
Taken on Thursday, February 21st, after the morning rains.
Read More..>>Day 752: So Ye Be Wantin’ T’ Go To Sea, Jerry!
Posted on September 19, 2007 - Filed Under new orleans, pictures, weather | 1 Comment
Talk Like A Pirate Day couldn’t have come at a better time, when many New Orleanians curse out loud, gather bottles of rum and prepare for a possible visit by TS/Hurricane Jerry, the next phase of Tropical Disturbance 93L. If I understand the model forecasts and the Masters analysis correctly, should a storm choose to come this way, […]
Read More..>>Day 751: Typical Pre-Potential-Hurricane Dialogue With D
Posted on September 18, 2007 - Filed Under new orleans, weather | 1 Comment
me: so yeah um
D: ??
me: Weather Underground Storm Track
D: National Hurricane Center - it’s not even listed.
me: National Hurricane Center Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook THIS SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR SUBTROPICAL OR TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS IT MOVES WESTWARD OVER FLORIDA AND INTO THE EASTERN GULF OF […]
Day 716: With Head In Hands
Posted on August 15, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, government, louisiana, new orleans, weather | 2 Comments
D come before E except when it comes to named tropical depressions that threaten the Gulf of Mexico, I suppose. Erin will grace/graze Texas sooner than we know the fate of Dean. While at lunch today, I caught the WWL morning news re-broadcast in which the meteorologist said something to the effect of “Keep Dean in […]
Read More..>>Posted on August 13, 2007 - Filed Under blurbs, new orleans, weather | 2 Comments
Firefox can’t find the server at www.nhc.noaa.gov … The server at nhc.noaa.gov is taking too long to respond. Why does this remind me of when D and I were eating dinner at the Zea’s on St. Charles bar this evening because our central AC went kaputz late last week, and right as I asked […]
Read More..>>Posted on June 2, 2007 - Filed Under blurbs, computing & internet, new orleans, weather | Leave a Comment
The City Of New Orleans Emergency Contact System is now online. I went ahead and signed up for it and received activation messages via email and cellphone text message … knowing full well that this contact system is much like our pumps. Someone’s got to be around to man it. Also, where […]
Read More..>>Day 642: New Orleans Blogger Band
Posted on June 1, 2007 - Filed Under funny, music, new orleans, weather | 7 Comments
For some odd reason, when faced with calamity, I get a haircut*. Perhaps it is that female-hormonal aspect of me or a symptom of the underlying obsessive-compulsiveness that demands control of the things I can change, while completely ignoring that which I cannot and donning blinders not to know the difference. In reality, the change […]
Read More..>>Day 642: The Reason For The Season
Posted on June 1, 2007 - Filed Under food & drink, new orleans, science & technology, weather | 2 Comments
Hurricane season, that is, and I’m reading this article in today’s Washington Post, a longish piece on the current state of our storm surge protection (and which touches on the bewitched, bothered and beleaguered Road Home program and Nagin’s recent SOTC speech).
But could the rebuilt defenses handle another Katrina? The answer is no. Even […]
Day 630: No Joke To New Orleans
Posted on May 20, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, new orleans, recovery, weather | Leave a Comment
This gentleman in Southbend, Indiana has a quirky way of opining, but he gets it.
Funny thing is it’s no joke to New Orleans
The national news media don’t focus much on New Orleans now, not a year and nine months after Katrina. There are other more important stories. Will Paris Hilton go to jail? What will […]
