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Levees.org "US Counties with Levees Map" Goes INTERACTIVE!
~Editilla Crowtellas~For the 6th Anniversary, Your New Orleans Ladder has commissioned disaster geographer Ezra Boyd to create an interactive map using this Levees.org "US Counties with Levees Map"!
Welcome Home, Gentlerillas! Sinn Féin.
"Damn right we're winning!"

Rising Tide VI - Live Webcast!
~Hat Tweet @BigRedCotton Drop by an holla atcha girl tomorrow at #RT6. moderating a brass band panel feat. @TBC_BrassBand who will also perform bit.ly/nRhlr0

Northeast U.S. prepares for ''extremely dangerous'' Irene
~Irene's eyewall collapses; further intensification unlikely ~Wunderblog
~Hat Tweet~ @wunderground Weather Underground~The sheer expanse of #Irene is quite impressive. Look at the satellite image for proof. wxug.us/eg7v

Hurricane Irene Whips Up Trading In ‘Catastrophe Bonds’

Another Katrina? Not Funny
~Susanna Murley, Huff Post

Levees.org releases previously unseen disturbing footage

Comments: 17th Street Canal homeowner tries to block tractor on levee from spraying debris into his backyard

Irene pounds the Dominican Republic, heads for the Bahamas
~Jeff Masters, Wunderblog
~Morning satellite image of Irene, showing a hint of an eye starting to pop out.

Tis The Season for Second Line Parades!
~Red Cotton, Gambit

Pioneer of urban farm and school learns lessons of his own, hopes struggles lead to success~Ariella Cohen, The Lens

Federal judge makes ruling in controversy between homeowners and Corps~WWL

~Hat Tip~ Sandy Rosenthal

Levees.org got a dress rehearsal

East Bank N.O. levee board calls for more study of Corps plan to "armor" levees

While the Slabbed Nation awaits the coming statement from Slabbed New Media LLC…

~Editilla Crowtellas~Thanks yous all for the email queries and Drake for the comment last post! Gentle'rillas, please forgive our lax postage this past week. I am deeply involved in fully gutting my new old home: Editilla's House of Piety. I closed on the 137 yr old duplex on Piety St on my birthday, February 15th, and this summer began commuting via Amtrak to Nola for 2-3 week Work Trips of very hard, dirty and revealing stripping it open. Some evil surprises came out, but good to find out and take care of now. Yet, alas, this trip has become 4-6 weeks, as one Big Dangerous Problem happened with the collapsing of the Post Federal Flood Road Home Addition on the back this past week that quite frankly threw me on my ass and held me there face down with abrasive angst and tense focus. It was so bad that I couldn't even talk about it to friends and family. It became intensely personal and a challenge that even now I remain loath to describe. But I finally decided to DISAPPEAR that ugly bad con'con carpentry, and thus we will have a Swank Back Deck overlooking a huge back yard. Perhaps I can get into blogging about this Piety House Project soon, but for now I hope this can explain my absence. How Ironic, eh? Here I am IN New Orleans and I can't even hang my New Orleans Ladder!

Rising Tide VI: Nominations still open for the Ashley Award~Get your registration on here

~Poster by Greg Peters~
Geaux New Orleans!

London's Katrina moment: James Gill
~There is little room for debate about the cause of our woes; the Corps of Engineers so botched our flood defenses that we were done in by no more than a glancing blow from a weakening hurricane. Blame is not so easy to apportion when gangs suddenly take to the streets intent on burning buildings, burglarizing businesses, assaulting police and generally terrorizing the populace.

It really happened... never forget 8/29/05

~Artifacts Not Politics

Jus'sayin...it happened 8/29/05

Welcome to the Church of Noise ~moosedenied

Add Charity Hospital to the Verite and Kaufman-Hall Study: Petition

Two African waves, 92L and 93L, worth watching~Wunderblog

Landrieu says city’s poor financial situation isn’t likely to improve anytime soon
~Ariella Cohen, The Lens

Some Details of Riverfront Park Released; Councilwoman, Public Press for More
~NOLA DEFENDER

Grand Isle warns of bacteria level in water at beaches

More RT6: Ashley Morris Award Nominations

Red Dress Run 2011~Hungry Termite

N.O. City Council Approves Quest to List Breach Sites to National Register
~Levees.org

Times-Picayune reporter David Hammer wins award for BP oil spill coverage

FB sites alert motorists to checkpoints

Pencils, not prayer
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Faces of the Delta: Father Vien
~Delta Dispatches

Monday Music: Geithner reportedly still looking for the license plate number of the truck that just ran his ass over but football season is soon ~Slabbed

Hippies vs Anarchists or How not to be an activist~Library Chronicles

Anglers cast off in garfish rodeo

~Christine Morgan Arceneaux

Red Beans And Ricely Yours: The Culinary Habits Of Louis Armstrong

For a slain innocent on the Danziger Bridge, justice and tears~Jarvis DeBerry

Natural and Political History
~Judyb54, NOLAFemmes

River Commission meetings set for this month

Later Gator...~American Zombie

Rist Hotel to hit auction block

Louisiana-born Gottschalk was trendsetter in music

Satchmo SummerFest Music Schedule

Corps to re-evaluate bids for permanent pump stations after irregularities uncovered
~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg

Rising Tide 6 Is Aug. 27: Register Today!~Levees Not War

Victims of BP oil spill still need health care: A guest column by Kerry Kennedy

BP: talk to Feinberg, Feinberg: they did, and the answer is no…
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Laid-off Groton artist puts skills to work for oil-spill victims
~Hat Tweet @bayougirlblog

Ed Blakely, the Disasterbater, gets it wrong, again

When its comes to reporting on economic news~Slabbed

LSU budget cuts $2 million, higher tuition offsets shortfall ~Jordan Blum

The InvadeNOLA Review:
Once Upon an Ever After

1840: Antoine's restaurant opens

Wendell Pierce, of ‘The Wire’ and ‘Treme,’ to open groceries in New Orleans ‘food deserts’
~Hat Tweet @FoodRush, @WendellPierce, @NOLAFemmes

A Bad Week for the Army Corps of Engineers~Sandy Rosenthal

Desperate Lakeview gardeners rebreach 17th Street Canal!
~The New Orleans Levee

~ReTweet @theharryshearer~#HappyBdayMrPresident Why not read Maria Garzino's letter to you as a gift to yourself?

About Flood Control 2015 and SLFPAE

Chemical Sampling in the Atchafalaya Basin and Oyster Bayou 8/2/2010

Rising Tide~Mags

Prediction: 11 more named storms

Das Fruit~moosedenied

Pill popper? That's the best you could do? ~American Zombie

Before somebody drops a house on you too~Library Chronicles

The point is, nobody knows…
~Disenfranchised Citizen

1838: The New Basin Canal opens, linking New Orleans and the lakefront

Prime Angus: 'Piano Man' Phil Melancon plunking around

Review: Grayson Capps~Blurt

Rising Tide 6 Brass Band Panel!

A Tale of Two Cities: Satchmo Club Strut and White Linen
~He Said/She Said NOLA

Levees.org is guest on NPR today!
They beg to differ with recent Corps of Engineers' Awards for "protecting" New Orleans
~Members of the Army Corps of Engineers, the subject of emotional criticism after Hurricane Katrina, have won several agency awards. The corps in New Orleans says its team was given awards at an agency summer conference Monday. A corps news release said the team won the awards for the "hard work" and "professional excellence ... to reduce risk for the people of the Greater New Orleans area." New Orleans corps staff won awards for work done after Katrina. John Hess was honored as the program manager overseeing $14.6 billion in work and Kevin Wagner was honored as a project manager for his oversight of a massive floodgate and floodwall structure being built to protect New Orleans and the suburbs on the West Bank of the Mississippi.
~Editilla Gotta Toll'ya~BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
~~~GET EM LEVEES.ORG!
~Special thanks for pic to The New Orleans Levee for Holding Nothing Back!