September 2005

Day 24 PM: Rita Upgraded, Rita Help Blog

September 21, 2005

Two Category Fives In One Season: Why? Read this short but informative piece on the reason for Katrina and Rita going from 0 to Scary in a very small period of time. — Rita Upgraded To Category 5: Hurricane Rita is now a Cat 5 storm and her path has turned slightly southward. The eyewall [...]

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Day 24 Early PM: Hurricane Rita Preparedness, Shell Contact, Mental Buoyancy, A Lesson From Grand Forks, Sousaphone Recovered

September 21, 2005

Hurricane Rita: Preparations are underway at txyankee‘s for the imminent landfall of Hurricane Rita, now a Category 4 in the Gulf of Mexico. The first Rita-related casualty in Houston occurred late last night as txyankee performed battery inventory and accidentally dropped a C cell on my big toe. Near miss, near miss! Even funnier was [...]

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Day 23 PM: Hurricane Rita

September 20, 2005

Lovely Rita, karma maid, may I inquire discreetly, when are you free to veer southward and stay the bejeezus away from me? Sorry to have botched an otherwise fine Beatles song on perky parking nazis, but I am quite tired of fleeing hurricanes. Just as I was settling into the resignation-with-mild-dysphoria portion of the program, [...]

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Day 23 AM: Hurricane Rita, Small Business, Restaurants

September 20, 2005

Hurricane Rita: If Rita indeed moves southward, hence lowering the price of crude oil, why is southern Louisiana on for a mandatory evacuation? Is this paranoia, only somewhat justified, or would even a bit of rain place tremendous strain on our recovering levee system? Waiting until Friday to return is frustrating, but not a problem [...]

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Day 22 Early PM: TS Rita

September 19, 2005

Stop your whimpering, Texas, it’s a TS/Cat1. Louisianans take leisurely strolls and watch football in that sort of weather. Reactions on Rita from various folks – txyankee: “It’s just a sprinkle for you folks.” D: “Why does god hate you? Are you sure Maitri doesn’t mean something different like Wrath Of God?” Neil Finn sings: [...]

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Day 22 AM: Uptown Re-Entry Delay?, Vaccinations

September 19, 2005

Uptown Re-Entry Delay?: Mayor Ray Nagin and the federal head of Katrina recovery, Thad Allen, will meet this afternoon to reconsider re-entry into the 70115 and 70118 zip codes. Too late, people are already going in. It comes down to the quality of tap water and Tropical Storm Rita’s plans. “We will reassess how we [...]

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Day 21 PM: The Music’s Still Inside Us

September 18, 2005

What is life without love and water? What is living without music? As the sounds of Uncle Tupelo, Banco De Gaia, Tracy Chapman, Wolfgang Mozart, XTC, Sonny Boy Williamson, Iggy Pop and many others emanate from my laptop, I see again that a piece of music is a living, breathing entity, a soul that merges [...]

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Day 20 PM: Yet More Zip Code Hashing, Frenchmen Desire Good Children

September 17, 2005

70130, Ready Or Not, Here We Come: According to a map in today’s paper version of USA Today, the Garden District (GD) is included in Central Business District (CBD) re-entry slated for September 26th. However, some GD residents are going in starting Monday (09/19) anyway, assuming they are not going to get kicked out if [...]

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Day 19 PM: 70130 Zip Code, Tulane Provides Legal Aid, NO Water Quality, Lessons Learned From Grand Forks

September 17, 2005

Forgive the lateness of this post, but a gargantuan thunderstorm took hold of all electronic activity right over txyankee’s house today (seriously, it wasn’t raining as hard anywhere else in Houston, or even Stepford, just right on this house), and this seems to have wiped out all internet/cable service for most of the day. Along [...]

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Day 18 AM: Going Back!, EPA Reports Thus Far, Plaquemines Parish, More Google Maps

September 15, 2005

Nagin On Phased Re-Entry: In today’s state-of-the city address, New Orleans mayor, Ray Nagin, said that New Orleans “would begin the reopening process, making portions of the city available to about 182,000 residents.” The schedule for re-entry includes: Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 17 & 18 – Business owners in Algiers, CBD, French Quarter and Uptown [...]

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