August 30, 2005
Katrina Message Boards
Update! Go to the newly installed bulletin.
This is the master blog post for posting messages. My focus is Orleans Parish. If you have information on how to inquire about other areas, let me know; I'll post a link.
Try to make your posts short and information rich. Thanks, and God bless.
Kenneth Greenlee
FQ/Marigny/Bywater Message Board
Uptown/Garden District/CBD Message Board
New Orleans East Message Board
MidCity/Broadmoor/City Park Message Board
West Bank/Algiers Point/Gretna Message Board
Holy Cross/Lower Ninth Ward Message Board
Anywhere Else Message Board
Update! Go to the newly installed bulletin.
Anywhere Else includes the other Louisiana Parishes, MS, AL, etc. Please do not leave inquiries here. Please rather leave blogs and message boards that have been set up to handle the other areas.
Holy Cross/Lower Ninth Ward Message Board
Update! Go to the newly installed bulletin.
Please post messages here if you are from Holy Cross/Lower Ninth Ward, have loved ones who live here, or have news about the conditions here.
West Bank/Algiers Point/Gretna Message Board
Update! Go to the newly installed bulletin.
Please post messages here if you are from West Bank/Algiers Point/Gretna, have loved ones who live here, or have news about the conditions here.
MidCity/Broadmoor/City Park Message Board
Update! Go to the newly installed bulletin.
Please post messages here if you are from MidCity/Broadmoor/City Park, have loved ones who live here, or have news about the conditions here.
New Orleans East Message Board
Update! Go to the newly installed bulletin.
Please post messages here if you are from New Orleans East, have loved ones who live here, or have news about the conditions here.
Uptown/Garden District/CBD Message Board
Update! Go to the newly installed bulletin.
Please post messages here if you are from Uptown/Garden District/CBD, have loved ones who live here, or have news about the conditions here.
FQ/Marigny/Bywater Message Board
Update! Go to the newly installed bulletin.
Please post messages here if you are from FQ/Marigny/Bywater, have loved ones who live here, or have news about the conditions here.
August 29, 2005
Miracles Do Happen
It appears that my area has not sustained fishbowl flooding. Shepard Smith reported this morning that the French Quarter is not flooded. I live around 10 blocks East from where he is reporting from which bodes well for me. On the other hand, St Bernard Parish is reporting horrible multi-feet flooding, which is several miles East of my home.
No doubt there is major damage throughout the swath of Katrina, but major damage is not Armegeddon. Depending on continuing news throughout the day, I will most likely be heading back tomorrow morning. I pray for all of my Gulf Coast compatriots.
August 28, 2005
What Can I Say?
Like millions of other folks, I am glued to the TV watching Katrina buzzsaw her way towards New Orleans. I am in Galveston, having started my evacuation at 2:20 am this morning.
I have friends who, at least when I left, had decided to stay. I cannot reach any of them now. I can only hope that they decided to leave (in time), or that they will be taken care of in the next several days.
There is a Schrodinger's Cat quality to watching the spinning red ball: does the New Orleans that I know even exist right now, hours before landfall? Surely the buildings are there right now and the people who remained are fine right now. But in a sense, some of those buildings have already fallen and some of those people have already met tragedy. Indeterminacy tonight, determinacy tomorrow.
I am in a stunned fog: resigned not that my life will change in the morning, but that my life has already changed. Perhaps a little, perhaps a lot. But even if I have a relatively intact house to return to, there will be friends who don't, and there may be friends who aren't.
Commingled with my resignation is an optimism and resilience. Whatever happens, well, happens. Wherever my starting point happens to be tomorrow is just that: a starting point. Not without pain, not without tears, not without doubts. A fine place to take a step forward.
Yes, I am praying and hoping for miracle, a weakening, an Eastern deviation, and that may yet come. Do you believe in miracles? I do.
Take care all.
Off to Galveston
I can't tell you how dearly I hope that Katrina turns out to be the hoax Ivan was (at least for New Orleans). As you can see I was mighty worried last year, and left for Tennessee.
I would like to thank Brendan Loy, whom I have been in contact with for the last six to eight hours, helping me to come to the right conclusion. By the by, it's not wrong to leave when you don't know whether things could go wrong and you can still get out. It is dreadfully wrong to wait until you are certain you must get out and you can't.
Perhaps some audioblogging about the evacuation anon (thanks, Brendan).
August 27, 2005
Hurricane Katrina
Brendan Loy has some excellent links up (no permalink as he's apparently tuning his blog. The post that caught my eye was posted 8/27/2005 at 1 am.
If I stay I'll blog the hurricane. I did not stay for Ivan.
August 17, 2005
MM on AA
The Air America scandal gets longer and harder.
Michelle Malkin: INSIDE AIR AMERICA: AN INVESTIGATIVE BLOG REPORT
August 16, 2005
August 06, 2005
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