Thursday, June 12, 2008

Jeudi

Storm systems are seen over the central United States in this satellite image taken June 12th ~Reuters - NOAA

4 dead, 40 hurt as tornado slams into Iowa Boy Scout camp

Scouts in Tornado Help Save Lives

Iowa Flood - News Updates from Cedar Falls

Iowa City empowers mayor to order evacuations
~USGS Gage Readings:
Iowa River below Coralville damn


Update: Riverside properties 'at high risk' in Des Moines
~USGS Guage Readings:
Des Moines River near Saylorville, IA



Members of the National Guard, in almost waist-deep floodwater, sandbag a sewage pumping station as water from the Cedar River continues to rise Wednesday June 11, 2008 in Vinton, Iowa. Flood waters have inundated the electric plant in Vinton and the entire city is now without power. Officials are preparing for the Cedar River to crest at record levels all across the state. AP Photo/Steve Pope


Flood prep continues in Davenport

To give you a visual....
~Stay Young Stay Foolish


Indiana flooding spreads as crest moves downstream

Overtopped levee in Daviess Co. forces evacuation~A high-tech aircraft used to photograph illegal drug operations will cruise across Indiana skies today to survey the damage caused by the recent floods.

Dozens of Illinois Homes Flooded; Weather Pressures Corn Prices

Midwest flooding could push prices of food higher

Flood-threatened Midwest could get more rain

Heavy rains cause flooding across SE Minnesota

Missouri River flooding

Flooding to close 9 locks on Mississippi River~Locks locations here

Mississippi River towns continue to ready for flood

WAVCIS~Wave-Current-Surge
Information System for Coastal Louisiana
Note~
Gentle'rillas can use these interactive sites together to study the flooding in any state: zoom WAVICS sat'view out and "curser" the Map up the Mississippi River to Indiana and Illinois and then zoom'click back down to follow the smaller rivers like the Ohio and the Iowa.
This is active data. I use the USGS maps to get oriented to the states and their flood gauges due to the lack of boundries of the sat'view. I also look up State Maps.
USGS~Flood Stage Levels current 'real-time' guage readings


Village didn't participate in national flood insurance program

FEMA gives away Katrina donations

MS: FEMA’s Rebuilding Cheif Visits Coast
~Gulf South Free Press

Editilla jus'axin~Somebody gonna hand this good O'Boy O'Dell a Big'O Pie--In His Face'O? Hmmm?
Creme O'Terra?


McCain Evoking Frozen Comfort Food~We Could Be Famous

Eating Crow~Polly Jackson~Acrylic on canvas,
30 x 42"~painted 2nd week of Federal Flood 2005

Editilla gotta tol'yaz~Gentle'rillas know that at times like these, words just don't always get it.
Sometimes we need Fine Artists to Get It!
The Ladder Thanks this Artist for sending us their work.

Bobby Jindal: Worse Than Katrina?~firedoglake

New Orleans mayor,
Ray Nagin-aka: "Baby'Head, Egg'Head, Butt'Head, Dew'Ball, Chocolate Don, Candy Man, Bakin, Beavous, Stupido, Sparky, Scat4brain, Ludicrux...Punk" -eats out on taxpayers' dime


Nagin administration undertips New Orleans servers
~Your Right Hand Thief


Post-Katrina housing Web site flooded by foreclosure crowd

Port of New Orleans discusses sale of Industrial Canal land

State of Louisiana Launches Rebuilding Registry through the Road Home
~Militant Moderate Musings


La. Senate OKs school vouchers for New Orleans

Liprap's Lament - The Line

Mitzvah to Mississippi
~Pioneer Press


New Orleans Creamed Spinach
~Oakmont Farmers Market


Penn faculty contributes to New Orleans reconstruction effort

Day 29 - Hunger strike suspended after huge political gains

Best Drinks In New Orleans
~Chowhound

Editilla gotta Milk Punch~This is really funny because that lede showed up today in one of my search engines, as now news, but the initial post was actually from July 17th of 2007...errrrah, meaning that nearly a year later Nolaholics are still leaving recommendations in the Comments Box! Ya'gotta love'em!
That is definitely why I love Chowhound.

Thank you, Bigezbear...You Photollero!

Oh, ick~Chasing Ray
Editilla icks, ticks and flicks Oh'My~Meghan McCain, daughter of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, is trying her hand at being a children's author?

New Orleans native and author Karen Essex makes her mark on historical fiction

Green Zone New Orleans [Antenna Gallery]

Friends of New Orleans and Swampland.com Join Together!


Blue Crescent Age~AnimaMundi

Battle of the Bands (or Dr. White Reconsidered)~Toulouse Street

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That was just a mention of the just the liner notes to the album. I'll have to listen to it a few more times until I can say anything worthy of the music.

New Orleans Ladder said...

Still, Marco, I enjoyed your take on the music. You do a great blog.
Thanks,
Editilla

Marco said...

I added da' ladder to my people & places. I also bought T. Blanchard's "Bounce" album. It's comin' in da' mail. I have to listen to that before "Requiem"
Thanks for adding me to your second line!