That’s a big storm. Currently in awe of nature. And the fact that Verizon Wireless and XM Radio send me emergency preparedness messages right before Ike, but didn’t for Gustav. Oh well.
I’m aware that posting on Day 1111 after Katrina was neglected, but I was in an airport or almost sick on an airplane (thanks, Ike!) while leaving New Orleans for a few days in Ohio. One can only imagine a rainy midwestern weekend with heaping servings of idlis, rasam, sambar, Democrat dad, Republican brother and PUMA almost PANTHER mother, with SunTV, Weather Channel and Twitter for side dishes. It can be Oy-ful at times.
But, there’s Ike, which we monitor, and hope that what happened in New Orleans three years ago is not the fate that befalls coastal Texans this year. You can watch all four local Houston stations – KPRC, KHOU, KRIV and KTRK – here as cable news is bound to has already become sensational and meaningless in terms of real information. Coastal Louisiana, including recently-hit Terrebonne Parish, is being flooded again, I hear.
Warm, dry wishes to R, John (who’s hunkering at R’s in The Heights), Racy and all of my Houston friends.
* Houston Area Storm Surge Maps (from Seymour D. Fair of The Third Battle)
* LiveScience Animation | How A Surge Swamps Galveston
