From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Gustav #7

Essays

Just went for a walk down to Magazine St at Jefferson Ave and took a 360 video of the abandoned intersection and the eerie quiet. Sorry if the video moves too fast. I thought the cops were gonna pick me up for being out after mandatory evacuation, but apparently we have until the dusk curfew. [...]

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Gustav #6

Essays

Still waiting for the next advisory to make the call. Looks like we’ll be staying unless it goes boom in the next update. Until then, I love when I can stand in the middle of Magazine Street. 9:30am

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Gustav #5

Essays

I got 2 hours sleep. I am too jacked to sleep. For the last two hours I’ve been looking at hurricane models and maps. I feel confident that if Gustav holds its current course then we’ll be safe in uptown Nola. But that’s the trick isn’t it? Knowin’ when to flinch. The storm is down [...]

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Gustav #4

Essays

I am setting up my twitter account right now, so add me if you’re into it: http://twitter.com/Pistolette. I will also be blogging here as long as Gustav and my DSL line allow me. All posts (until this is over) will just be titled ‘Gustav’ with a number behind it to keep things simple. I’m still [...]

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Gustav #3

Essays

Watching the news carefully right now… Early thoughts… Governor Bobby Jindal makes me feel safe, reading off his bullet lists with rapid-fire precision. Mayor Ray Nagin makes me feel scared to death with his bored drawl, like I should run out of here to get away from his incompetence. Every time I look at Mitch [...]

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Hurricane Gustav Plans (#2)

Essays

I wrote (but didn’t post yet) a reflective “Katrina three years after” piece on Friday, but I figured everyone else was too busy having a nervous breakdown to read blogs. Fuck memorials, what better way to remember Katrina than running for your life, eh? :-P This thing is STILL not in the Gulf yet. Honestly, [...]

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The Cone of Doooooooom! (#1)

Essays

After giggling through Michael Giordano’s post at Blog of New Orleans regarding the hurricane probability cone, I must say I vote for “El Cono del Muerte”. Before that I was calling it the Cone of Doooooom!… “OK, most of us don’t have degrees in meteorology and certificates in storm prognostication, but you don’t have to [...]

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