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Aug. 30th, 2005 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickTonight for dinner I had a yellow summer squash (fried up in a tiny bit of bacon fat until all limp and bacon-flavored) with some sliced tomato on top (just warmed through) and some rice to go with. It was really quite tasty. For dessert I had two ripe, room-temperature peaches, sliced into wedges with nothing on them. Putting peaches in the fridge ruins their flavor. Brother Joe just called on the phone and totally agreed with me on the room-temperature-fruit thing, so you know it's true. No fridge for the peaches. My peaches are sitting on the counter -- I buy a quarter bushel at a time so that I can eat them all up before they go yuck.
I'm sure everyone went out and ate a peach as a result of yesterday's post, but I'd like to point out that you're supposed to be getting some huge number of servings offruit peaches that you're probably not getting so if you accidentally forgot to have a peach yesterday, you might resolve to try that here directly. They're really quite good, this time of year. Really. Quite good.
Also, New Orleans appears to be something more than 80% underwater due to several levee failures. Latest update I've seen (6:41 P.M.Central Time - Efforts to stop the levee break at the 17th Street Canal have ended unsuccessfully and the water is expected to soon overwhelm the pumps in that area, allowing water to pour into the east bank of Metairie and Orleans... Souce: http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html) indicates that all of the city that's below sea level (plus about three feet more due to storm water levels in Lake Pontchartrain) is going to be underwater by tomorrow morning. It's going to suck. Loss of life and property damage are going to be pretty damned impressive by the time we get done with this.
In the days to come, as the floodwaters recede and the Gulf Coast attempts to recover from this admittedly destructive and terrible storm, I'd like everyone to remember that this was not the doomsday scenario. As many people died and as much property as got destroyed, this was NOT the doomsday scenario. Katrina didn't hit as a Category 5 hurricane. She didn't pass directly over New Orleans or a little to the west of New Orleans. She passed to the east of New Orleans, so that the brunt of the storm hit elsewhere. Storm surge didn't overtop the levees during the height of the hurricane -- they were still there the morning after, keeping the water out. The city was evacuated ahead of time with something like an 80% compliance on that. THIS WAS THE SOFT OPTION. Again. This was the soft option. Is everybody certain that rebuilding the damn city is a good idea? Really certain? Completely and totally certain? One more question: Have all ya'll looked at a timeline graphy thing showing the relative frequency (per year) of category 4 and 5 hurricanes since we started keeping track of them?
This just in: 7:24 P.M. - John Marie of Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office: No one is allowed back into parish. Marshall law in effect. Forty-seven people were rescued by parish officials Monday and several dozen were rescued Tuesday. Who the hell is Marshall and what's his law? [Yes. They mean martial law. I know that's what they mean.]
I'm sure everyone went out and ate a peach as a result of yesterday's post, but I'd like to point out that you're supposed to be getting some huge number of servings of
Also, New Orleans appears to be something more than 80% underwater due to several levee failures. Latest update I've seen (6:41 P.M.Central Time - Efforts to stop the levee break at the 17th Street Canal have ended unsuccessfully and the water is expected to soon overwhelm the pumps in that area, allowing water to pour into the east bank of Metairie and Orleans... Souce: http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html) indicates that all of the city that's below sea level (plus about three feet more due to storm water levels in Lake Pontchartrain) is going to be underwater by tomorrow morning. It's going to suck. Loss of life and property damage are going to be pretty damned impressive by the time we get done with this.
In the days to come, as the floodwaters recede and the Gulf Coast attempts to recover from this admittedly destructive and terrible storm, I'd like everyone to remember that this was not the doomsday scenario. As many people died and as much property as got destroyed, this was NOT the doomsday scenario. Katrina didn't hit as a Category 5 hurricane. She didn't pass directly over New Orleans or a little to the west of New Orleans. She passed to the east of New Orleans, so that the brunt of the storm hit elsewhere. Storm surge didn't overtop the levees during the height of the hurricane -- they were still there the morning after, keeping the water out. The city was evacuated ahead of time with something like an 80% compliance on that. THIS WAS THE SOFT OPTION. Again. This was the soft option. Is everybody certain that rebuilding the damn city is a good idea? Really certain? Completely and totally certain? One more question: Have all ya'll looked at a timeline graphy thing showing the relative frequency (per year) of category 4 and 5 hurricanes since we started keeping track of them?
This just in: 7:24 P.M. - John Marie of Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office: No one is allowed back into parish. Marshall law in effect. Forty-seven people were rescued by parish officials Monday and several dozen were rescued Tuesday. Who the hell is Marshall and what's his law? [Yes. They mean martial law. I know that's what they mean.]
