Day 64: What Is It With Floods And My Family?; Hallowe’en; Introducing The Newest Riehle
Posted on October 31, 2005 - Filed Under desi / india, global, katrina, new orleans, weather | 9 Comments
The V-R Family’s Love Affair With Extensive Flooding: Eight weeks after Hurricane Katrina and associated flooding drove me out of my home in New Orleans, my parents now enjoy a winter stay in Chennai, which flooded badly after a severe cyclonic storm hit the coastal South Indian city this past weekend.
[Cyclone is the generic term […]
Day 61: Canal St. Cleanup
Posted on October 28, 2005 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans | Leave a Comment
For those of you in town, there’s going to be a group cleanup of Canal Street tomorrow. From nola.com:
New Orleans will hold its second city-sponsored cleanup Saturday, this time on Canal Street. Two weeks ago, volunteers were called upon to help clean Magazine Street following Hurricane Katrina.
“This is another way for us to help […]
Day 59: NOLA.com’s Halloween; Video From The 6th District Police
Posted on October 26, 2005 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans | Leave a Comment
A New Orleans Halloween: Dear readers, living in exile isn’t easy. Neither is driving around Houston to find a replacement for this year’s Halloween costume, as the one previously-chosen is now irrelevant and not currently available in New Orleans or Houston. While I will not be able to make it to All […]
Read More..>>Day 56: Public Services Map; A Month And A Week From The End Of Hurricane Season
Posted on October 23, 2005 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans | 4 Comments
NOLA Public Services Map: CNN hosts yet another interactive map with New Orleans zip codes and the status of amenities - water, sewage, trash removal, power - for each area. Eight weeks after Hurricane Katrina and the flood, water is available throughout the city, but for New Orleans East. All public services […]
Read More..>>Day 54: Louisiana Request Illinois Mud; Foaming At FEMA
Posted on October 21, 2005 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans | Leave a Comment
Louisiana Requests Illinois Mud: Remember my Wonders Of Science post from two days ago? Here’s another one that shames me into an inner silence so unbelievably quiet. What ARE we doing to this earth and, in the process, to ourselves?
In order to restore marshes destroyed during Hurricane Katrina, the state of Louisiana […]
Day 53: The Canadian Wilma Wind Model; A Katrina Website From Lakeview
Posted on October 20, 2005 - Filed Under global, katrina, new orleans, science & technology, weather | Leave a Comment
Wilma Wind Model: From Bob C., the German-Canadian-Aussie geophysicist also in exile in Houston,
“For the true believers, this modeler has hit the last two on the money (predicted eye shift from west to east of New Orleans for Katrina and TX/LA border when all the other models had Rita going to Galveston). Check tomorrow […]
Day 52: A Lot More Category Fives Headed Our Way; Cellphone Alternatives
Posted on October 19, 2005 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans, science & technology, weather | Leave a Comment
A Lot More Category Fives Headed Towards The Gulf Coast: My assumption that most people seek out, absorb and base their opinions on scientific facts is wrong. In fact, many don’t, including scientists, a lot of whom work within a rational framework only when it comes to their own line of study. I […]
Read More..>>Day 51: Jazz Funeral For Katrina; Krewe Du Vieux Update; Fielkow Released From Saints; Feeble FEMA
Posted on October 18, 2005 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans, wisconsin | 4 Comments
Jazz Funeral For Katrina: This past Sunday evening in the Quarter saw a jazz funeral for Hurricane Katrina led by a few musicians and many New Orleans residents. For those of you who don’t know what such a funeral entails, it is held in two parts: a solemn procession with the deceased’s casket until […]
Read More..>>Day 50: Hope
Posted on October 17, 2005 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans | Leave a Comment
Halfway to 100 days.
Messages From The Garden District
Read More..>>Day 48: Cause Of Levee Failure?; More From The Lower Garden District and Tulane
Posted on October 15, 2005 - Filed Under geology, katrina, new orleans | 1 Comment
Cause Of Levee Failure?: nola.com reports on why the floodwalls of the 17th Street and London canals failed. While these barriers were not topped, i.e. water didn’t flow over them, they were broken and the soil under these walls has been named as the culprit. It appears that “a soft, spongy layer of […]
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