Demanche

Memphis-area emergency shelters open, hotels going fast

WAVICS
Wave -Current -Surge Info System for Coastal La

Waves may push surge over top of some levees
~Mark Schleifstein

Flood-control teams get ready for Gustav~Sheila Grissett

Gustav's potential storm surge could inundate Houma, La
~A storm of the kind that Gustav is shaping up to be has been studied for years and presented time after time as a doomsday scenario for Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.
“It’s critically bad,” said Windell Curole, interim levee director for both parishes, citing the storm’s present course. “Right now it’s not looking very pretty for us.”

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin,
Parish Presidents say Looters will go directly to Angola State Penitentiary.

Ascension Amateur Radio Club

~OpEd News
~Editilla con'schillas~OpEd News has progressively jumped to and linked up with the Ladder to facilitate even more info conta'flow.
We need Bloggers to post back to those behind them as to conditions at their evacuation destination. This will help the traveler make good decisions about direction and precious resources.
Please forward to the Ladder any posts in this regard so we can hang it for everyone else still on the road.
The Net Grows Stronger with more and more links putting an Eye on this Big Honcho Storm.
We will better survive its wrath.

Officials make use of Katrina lessons

McCain Cancels GOP Convention Opening Night
~McCain's campaign chartered a jet to fly delegates back to their hurricane-threatened states along the Gulf Coast.

Bush, Cheney to skip Republican National Convention
~President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will skip the Republican National Convention because of mounting concerns about Hurricane Gustav, the White House said Sunday.

Oil companies shutting down Gulf operations

Mandatory evacuations to begin Sunday morning in New Orleans

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Says Department on Alert for Gustav

Insurance may not cover as much under Gustav

It's way too early to take credit for success ~Yat Pundit

Divine intervention?
~"There are gaps in the system, but the system is stronger and better than ever," said Bill Irwin, program manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is charged with the upkeep of the city's levee system.
~Editilla gotta step into this hurricane-sized spinning pile'0'poo~
August 28th, this past Thursday...
I again went to see the 17th Street Canal Levee Breach "Repair", to check on the Leak discovered there in March and covered on this Ladder.
There is still Flowing Water Leaking from right in the front of the middle of that New Breach "Repair".
That Flowing Water tasted Brackish, meaning it comes from the lake and not the city sewer.
That Flowing Water is covered by Marsh Grasses.
I stuck my arm into that Flowing Water again up to my forearms. That Flowing Water is eroding and undermining That Failing Levee Repair.
The Corps of Engineers is already out with a story, morbidly attempting to spin this coming flood on the news, in the Presidents press conference, in bus stations and on street corners to anyone listening:
"We have repaired the levees stronger than ever!"
No. They have stuffed some of them with newspaper mache. No. The Gentilly Woods flood wall is repaired too short. No. No. No. No.
They have screwed Chicken'little like feral cocks.
This is unmitigated Public Relations Pre'Spinfiltration.
This Corps of Engineers Spokesman is Lying.

Disaster Accountability Project

New Orleans Saints come to Indianapolis

Gustav roars through gulf; hundreds of thousands flee

Banksy shows up in force in New Orleans, Gustav laughs like a wrestler with a foreign object up his sleeve