Louisiana is drowning

"Misunderstood." ... Right!

 

Good post Albert. It's unfortunate the media that should be telling these stories, and the stories about what's going on in Italy, have election year tunnel vision.

 

Spoke with a friend who coaches at Southern and he said several of the athletes on the team lost their homes, but the whole team has been chipping in and helping wherever possible. It's going to be a long recovery process, especially for those who lost everything.

 

She swiped right

 

And now there's the possibility of a hurricane or tropical storm swinging up that way late next week. Perfect.

 

Hurricane is coming ashore in Florida right now. Looks like The Weather Channel is only network covering it.

 

A majority of Floridians don't even know places like Perry, Crawfordville and Cedar Key exist.

 

Lower Alabamans do.

 

That's my neck of the woods. Friend just texted - magnolia tree in neighbor's yard crashed down.

EDIT: And she just sent me photos of the tree that crashed through her kitchen.

 

Second verse:

New Orleans has already flooded twice in the last couple of weeks, including Saturday when parts of town got up to nine inches in a few hours. After a few days of insisting that all the pumps were functioning properly, the Sewerage & Water Board, a breathtakingly incompetent and corrupt body even by the standards of Louisiana government, keeps having to go back and admit more and more pumps were out of order.

It wasn’t even a hurricane, but heavy rains flooded New Orleans as pumps faltered

Now things are looking dramatically worse. After a Wednesday night fire took out a turbine, the whole system is down to its last source of backup power, which won't allow it to run at full capacity. You can guess what today's forecast is like.

Landrieu: There was no backup for S&WB power system