Sunday, June 1, 2008

Dimanche

Photos- Courtesy of NOLA.com's beautiful slideshow.
What lies between us and a storm’s fury?
~Naomi King, Houma Courier


WAVICS -Wave -Current -Surge Information System for Coastal Louisiana~Real'Time Interactive Data Map.
Y'all know how we like our Maps on da'Ladder!


Flood Stage Levels current 'real-time' guage readings ~USGS

Katrina volunteers slow to trickle
~Editilla begs ta'diffa--but only tangentially.
If gentle'rillas would fang back down this Ladder, you will find that we love to post articles on outside groups coming to help in the recovery. It is a favorite thing for me personally. Over the past 3 years well over 20,000 Americans have traveled to New Orleans alone, with much more covering the entire Gulf Coast region. But in New Orleans, they came in the most concentrated numbers. Hell, quite a few of these volunteers end up even Moving here. That first year was one thing. Then the 2nd year became another thing. Now moving through the 3rd year this phenomena seems to me to still be growing and thriving with volunteers now planning into the next decade to keep at it with New Orleans.
These clean'cut middle'americans came to the forkin'NINTH WARD --for Godessakes! They came with their eyes wide open and got shocked by what they saw. I mean...I have wondered over and over how traumatic it must be for someone from...say, Omaha, to try to understand where they got they shoes, while a dirty hustler and his friends surround them to collect on that bet! Think about it New Orleans. Would you want your grandmother hanging out in some parts of this city where these folks have been hangin? Well?
I Dit'n't T'ink So. Well, even Grand Mothers have come to help in the City That Care Forgot! (and the presidente left for dead!)
Does this not break one's ever'lovin heart?
I also look to find their hometown articles afterwards, when they talk about us in their local papers, because they are always changed deep inside. They always go home planning to come back. These volunteers usually come back too. They are from all over the country and some parts of the world. They have whatever reason that drives them to dive into our city to help. They have made a measurable impact in keeping our city from being forgotton and my hat goes off to them.

This needs to be highlighted as it validates to some extent and I hope gratifies the extremely hard work put fourth by those locals who work extra hours on the blog'o'sphere, beyond their own recovery work, to keep the focus of the nation on the ball. Bloggers like: Liptraps Lament, who relentlessly covers the different school closings by going to these places and documenting them. Think New Orleans, who established the first good list of Nola Bloggers & Nola Wki that I ever saw after the storm and continues to build reliable, interactive, mashable, workable GIS data bases of the city, so people can know where everything is before the city demolishes it, another storm changes the landscape or another Corps Flood puts us all out of our homes again. Or a huge number of other local bloggers that have their individual fingers on their own pulse of this amazing city,
each in their own way stitching together a safety net, if you will, to take care, to find home again during the next catastrophy.
Editilla just an old stitch'hiker. We travel the back hand path.
You may find many of them on the New Orleans News Ladder's 2nd Line (whether they like it or not:0)
I would also recommend BNN/New Orleans
...rowdy bunch them, swarm like drunken hornets when stirred. Caution is advised, along with a strong sense of humor and maybe even protective masque or at least a decent costume.
But make no mistake. The New Orleans News Ladder
ain't at all only about them. It is about Us...
--and Them who flooded our city on August 29th, 2005--
which for yer oh'so humble Editeurilla, is evermore da'marrow.
We were all damned or blessed that day with a new sense of Kin, which I will carry always as it found us then,
in the valley of the shadow of death, Sinn Féin.

Nobody's talking about McCain's pastor~Lena Judith Drake
With a very personal attachment to the city of New Orleans, now, I'm really upset. Not to mention the homophobia and racism brought across by the statements.
For something of the opposite, and something a little inspirational to go along with all this, here's what a beautiful young woman said during Superlove in New Orleans, when she introduced herself. This shows what kind of people are actually in New Orleans:
"I am a 12-year-old Katrina survivor,
and I am a strong woman."


Will the 2008 Presidential Election Be Stolen?
Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) announced today that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) component has awarded KBR an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contingency contract to support ICE facilities in the event of an emergency. KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton.
With a maximum total value of $385 million over a five-year term, consisting of a one-year based period and four one-year options, the competitively awarded contract will be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. KBR held the previous ICE contract from 2000 through 2005.
Exquixotic Corps
~Everywhere you don'wanna be!

~CA-Many of Los Angeles river's tributaries could lose protections
~DEL-7 riverfront areas on list of dump sites
~MO-When the waters go down what then?
~OR-New chief of regional Army Corps of Engineers~Editilla notes~Contrary as stated in the article, this man did not show up here.
~CO-Water Project Impact Statement Up for Public Comment


Buildings and books ~BLDGBLOG
~Editilla also strongly recommends:
Joel Kotkin-The City: A Global History
"Rich, hip cools' don't create anything. You think Aspen and Maui are cultural havens?"

Beware the Hip'Cools:
ReInventing The Never Ending Story.

The Times Picayune & James Gill Chime in Again on the Perdigao Saga~slabbed

Katrina victims will lose homes when FEMA ends temporary-housing efforts

Top 10 Jobs in Gulfport -Biloxi Mississippi~Patty Inglish

Tornado Victim Road to Recovery

Seeker Blog~Niels Bohr, Editillero

Record fuel prices could skyrocket if hurricane hits

Rednecks Visit New Orleans
~House of Zathras


"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."

Louisiana underground music pages~fiddycentdraft

More NolaFunkier than NYC

Back To Louisiana~Citizen K

Owner of jazz landmark clashes with creditors over plans
~Lois Gilbert

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