Shops on Magazine St, boarded up before Hurricane Gustav, August 2008.
I’ve had a few people ask me what happened to my old blog posts. Basically, I wrote on Blogger here from 2006 – 2009. When I decided to transfer all of my data to WordPress last year, I closed all of the content on Blogger and exported everything to WordPress. I was pissed to discover that all of my comments did not migrate over along with the posts, and my tags/categories were a mess. I worked on it a bit, but never figured it out and temporarily gave up. So all the posts from that period are locked in the archives for now (Just some side advice: If you’re on Blogger – unless you’re absolutely miserable with the platform, don’t transfer to WordPress. It was more trouble than it was worth to import. However, if you’re starting a NEW blog, then by all means go for the WordPress if you like).
Anyway, I went back to read my Hurricane Gustav dispatches yesterday and was interested in seeing how I reacted to the first major hurricane threat after Katrina. It also made me wary of doing what I did again. It’s amazing how much you can change in two years.
Another thing worth noting is, very few people stayed for Gustav, and after the botched re-entry plan, I seriously doubt as many people will leave during the next major threat. I think this is both good and bad, and I covered this topic when I was most passionate about it (right after Gustav) so give it a look.
Maybe I’ll try to organize a few of my old posts every week so I can eventually get my whole archive open again. But here’s what I’ve got so far…
Sadly, all of the comments and discussions on these posts are lost.
My Hurricane Gustav Dispatches:
August 28, 2008
August 30, 2008
August 31, 2008
September 1, 2008
September 2, 2008
September 3, 2008
September 4, 2008
September 7, 2008
