Sunday, June 8, 2008

Dimanche

Severe storms bring flooding, tornadoes to Midwest

Weekend Tornadoes; Flood Threat High

Update: Iowa City calls for volunteer sandbaggers
~Gage Readings:
Iowa River below Coralville damn

Residents try to cope with flooding
WAVCIS Satellite view->
WAVCIS
~Wave-Current-Surge Information System for Coastal Louisiana

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



~This photo shows the storm surge at the Paris Road bridge during Hurricane Katrina. It has been circulating on the internet and has recently become the subject of some debate over its authenticity. I believe this photo to be authentic.
This page explains why.

Miss. Lawyers Were Not "Like a Good Neighbor" & The Storm Surge ~Central La. Politics

Spike needed in US economy, keep the soup!~slabbed
Bermuda is what “Insuranceland” would look like if Disney added such a unit to its Epcot Center. On practically every block in downtown Hamilton, you see a major insurance company or brokerage office. It’s almost impossible to sit down at any public place and not run into someone you know from the business.

Mississippi watchdog group leader slams FEMA's decision on delivering ice

Gulf Coast: Ice, Baby, Ice
~Gulf South Free Press


Parish Still Struggling to Rebuild From Katrina

New soil and sod laid at Lower 9 school

New green construction technologies being tested in New Orleans as the city rebuilds

Lake reeks with algae

Freshwater Project:
Corps to give pumps third try

“New Orleans is a place where the devil’s existence is freely recognized.”~Flannery O'Conner
Topps New Orleans Saints 2007 Team Gift Set

Langston Hughes Charter School: Same as the old boss ~Ray in New Orleans
Editilla'pologiza~ fo'da late snag on this one.

NoLA Rising Partners with ArtbyMags in new design

Editilla is lovin'da new look!

T'n'T~Casa de Charolette bella Luna

A New Brewery for New Orleans - NOLA Brewing Co.
~Letters In Bottles


Cochon Roasted Oyster topping?
~Chowhound New Orleans


How to Throw a Crawfish Boil ~NOLA Notes

Crawfish Festival Review:
The Music Was Funking Great,
The Rest Not Quite
~Kiko's House


Curren$y - Fear & Loathing in New Orleans~It's Another One

Rebirth Brass Band member starts new marching band program


Fez Sacred Music Festival
-Extraordinary Concert

~Observations from the Medina of Fez in Morocco
~Qawwali and Gospel music together? It is not an intuitive choice that any programme director would make and yet the combination of Craig Adams and the Voices of New Orleans with Faiz Ali Faiz and his Qawwali Ensemble from Pakistan was so good as to almost defy description.

Telluride Jazz Festival: June 5-8 ~WWOZ “On the Road,”
~We are listening to OZ live right now! Live Hot
New Orleans musicians in the mountains of Colorodo! Whoa! It sounds so good. Having been there before, I can just hear the audience goin'damn!
I'm hearing Nina Simon's daughter!
Oh yeah. OZ carry'ans da'World Boogie! Yes!
Ha Ha...this is just tooooo cool fo'school...
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