The Information Super-Frog

Short post. Back home safe in New Orleans. Looks like majority of the city has power back now, but I'm not yet among them.

Posting from a cafe about to close up early.

Had tasty gelato on Magazine Street earlier.



Glad to be back!

Hi from beautiful downtown Port Gibson, Mississippi. It's between Vicksburg and Natchez (closer to Vicksburg) for those following on your maps at home.

We've got a room in a nice antiquey B&B in this cute quiet small town. We were on the road before 5 am and got here before noon. The Interstates were contraflowing, mostly at a fair speed early on and getting more and more congested as the day continued.

We're safe. I think I'm going to take a nap.

Gustav is up to a category 3. It looks like Gustav will hit Central or Western Louisiana, grazing the coast on the way in. The radio just said Terrebone Parish may experience higher storm surge than any in history.

Damn. With all my day and half-day photographing trips since I got my digital camera, I haven't been back to Terrebone in a decade. Good luck, neighbors.

Mayor Nagin is expected to proclaim an evacuation of New Orleans tomorrow. I hope H & I will already be on the highway somewhere north of the Lake before the announcement.

H and I are contemplating it might be road trip time again, as Hurricane Gustav is forcasted to be heading to the central Gulf Coast.

I've never seen so much activity while a storm was this far out before. There were lines at gas stations in Chalmette 2 days ago and some buildings Uptown being boarded up yesterday. While I always keep an eye on storm threats, the early track projections heading straight towards us didn't worry me much, as one thing I don't recall any hurricane doing is continuing in a straight line for 6 days.

I'll be keeping an eye on the National Hurricane Center website, and the birds. The birds bugged out the Saturday before Katrina; if they go I'm not sticking around. Rumors have it that Da Mayor may issue an evacuation order way early and at lower hit possibility than Ivan etc.

Of course people here have their minds on the terrible scenes from this time 3 years ago







The horror... the horror...