20mph
The beginning of a new week. More and more people are coming into town. More and more people are wheeling-and-dealing to get into restricted areas of the city -- most people are not having problems getting in, and are finding that there's not much to salvage.
The next few weeks should be even busier around here. We have people staying with us on-and-off as they come into town.
Many of us are feeling lots of stress. Even though things are seeming to return to normal, the parade of people coming and going, the invasion of so many contractors and other foreigners in the city, the weird sense of distorted, ambiguous authority has all of us on edge. Even though most traffic lights are lit, almost nobody obeys the speed limit or follows the rules. Everybody seems to sense that there is no traditional traffic enforcement going on. A sign on my street says "20mph even for maggots!" - I'm not sure exactly what that means, but the lady on the corner is apparently fed up with people speeding.
Three trips in and out of Orleans today... each time you go through a roadblock, it's slightly different... some loose, some uber tight. Took some interesting pictures including a humorous poke at FEMA:
http://www.mikeperrymedia.com/xib/20050927-kat/index.html
Nice pictures of the crashed helicopter at Bayou St. John, Airline Hwy at the Orleans Parish line where they've created a levee across the highway to stop water, some erie dark clouds from Hurricane Rita as it passed nearby, and various random shots of debris and destruction, including a friend's beautiful hard wood floors completely buckled and ruined...
Tidbits:
Monday, St Bernard Parish residents were allowed to enter their city in select areas. Unfortunately, the Parish, according to NOPD and the State Police, didn't coordinate things with New Orleans and when thousands of evacuees on I-10 were stopped at the Orleans Parish border, things got nasty. State police refused to let the people from Chalmette go through Orleans to get to their homes, citing the interstate was for emergency vehicles only. So the St. Bernard people blockaded all of I-10 and refused to let any traffic through until the authorities let them pass through New Orleans. Several hours later, they got their way. For awhile, it was a very tense scene.
249 New Orleans Police Department officers went AWOL during Hurricane Katrina. The department is trying to figure out how to impose some sort of punishment/investigation against the police officers who didn't serve during the crisis.
Video montage of press & president during Katrina:
http://www.bushflash.com/wmf/leadership.wmv
Through-provoking montage of the New Orleans disaster situation with music by Bruce Springsteen:
http://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/Movies/Myhometown.html
Five people in Beaumont are dead after they were discovered in an Apartment; authorities suspect they died from carbon monoxide poisoning after running a generator indoors. Ok, Louisianians are notorious for being stupid enough to try to outrun trains and getting hit, but even a Louisianian wouldn't be dumb enough to run a generator inside their house. Darwin winks.
The next few weeks should be even busier around here. We have people staying with us on-and-off as they come into town.
Many of us are feeling lots of stress. Even though things are seeming to return to normal, the parade of people coming and going, the invasion of so many contractors and other foreigners in the city, the weird sense of distorted, ambiguous authority has all of us on edge. Even though most traffic lights are lit, almost nobody obeys the speed limit or follows the rules. Everybody seems to sense that there is no traditional traffic enforcement going on. A sign on my street says "20mph even for maggots!" - I'm not sure exactly what that means, but the lady on the corner is apparently fed up with people speeding.
Three trips in and out of Orleans today... each time you go through a roadblock, it's slightly different... some loose, some uber tight. Took some interesting pictures including a humorous poke at FEMA:
http://www.mikeperrymedia.com/xib/20050927-kat/index.html
Nice pictures of the crashed helicopter at Bayou St. John, Airline Hwy at the Orleans Parish line where they've created a levee across the highway to stop water, some erie dark clouds from Hurricane Rita as it passed nearby, and various random shots of debris and destruction, including a friend's beautiful hard wood floors completely buckled and ruined...
Tidbits:
Monday, St Bernard Parish residents were allowed to enter their city in select areas. Unfortunately, the Parish, according to NOPD and the State Police, didn't coordinate things with New Orleans and when thousands of evacuees on I-10 were stopped at the Orleans Parish border, things got nasty. State police refused to let the people from Chalmette go through Orleans to get to their homes, citing the interstate was for emergency vehicles only. So the St. Bernard people blockaded all of I-10 and refused to let any traffic through until the authorities let them pass through New Orleans. Several hours later, they got their way. For awhile, it was a very tense scene.
249 New Orleans Police Department officers went AWOL during Hurricane Katrina. The department is trying to figure out how to impose some sort of punishment/investigation against the police officers who didn't serve during the crisis.
Video montage of press & president during Katrina:
http://www.bushflash.com/wmf/leadership.wmv
Through-provoking montage of the New Orleans disaster situation with music by Bruce Springsteen:
http://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/Movies/Myhometown.html
Five people in Beaumont are dead after they were discovered in an Apartment; authorities suspect they died from carbon monoxide poisoning after running a generator indoors. Ok, Louisianians are notorious for being stupid enough to try to outrun trains and getting hit, but even a Louisianian wouldn't be dumb enough to run a generator inside their house. Darwin winks.
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