- Extremely ominous warning from NOAA.
- 6 hour animation loop.
- Dollar declines amidst Katrina.
- Active New Orleans webcam from Bourbon Street: is this active?
- Jeff says this link’s better for WKRG.
- Is the Superdome a viable shelter? People other than management say different.
- Midnight CDT: Center of Katrina, 90 miles SSW of mouth of Mississippi River. Moving at 10 mph NNW.
Year / 2005
Katrina Headlines I
- According to this live feed from WDSU, 10,000 people are at the Superdome with the National Guard and meals to spare. The Superdome management, which states that the walls will withstand 200 mph winds, claims that the Superdome will stand up. Others are not so sure.
- A first-person account from a local from Pat O’s.
- Dr. Jeff Masters: “This is an incredibly large eye for a storm with a pressure this low, and makes me very uncertain about what intensity fluctuations Katrina may undergo in the next few hours before landfall. I see nothing to change the label of “catastrophic” for Katrina at landfall.”
- Katrina has potential to leave 1 million homeless.
- Oil now shooting past $70 a barrel. Area that Katrina hits crucial to U.S. energy infrastructure.
- When Cafe Lafitte closes, “you KNOW its bad.”
- Phone post from LiveJournal user ZeldaKitty.
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Live Coverage of Katrina
Video feed from WWL. And what Maud said.
Thankfully, writer Poppy Z. Brite has evacuated and is blogging this. I hope as many people get out of this as safely as possible.
To donate to refugees, here’s a link to the American Red Cross.
Michelle Richmond Update
The erstwhile Michelle Richmond will be chatting with Lynn Freed on Word by Word. Show date is September 7. She’ll also be at the Sonoma County Book Festival on September 10. It seems that Ms. Richmond is in the North Bay more than she is the City these days.
Dirty Deeds Done Not Even Dirt Cheap
I’m with Mr. Beck. No decent music service worth its salt should exist without AC/DC.