travel
flooding in Monroe, LA
Here are some pictures of the bayou in Monroe, LA after the massive rainfall following Gustav that Jean from Dig, Grow, Compost, Blog mentioned in a comment on my previous post. There was some street flooding and comparing these pictures, you can see how high the water rose.
evacuation to Monroe, LA
As I am sure everyone that has a television knows, New Orleans was under mandatory evacuation for Hurricane Gustav last week. My main concern was the storm surge that they were predicting compromising our already damaged levees and causing mass flooding, which we didn’t get… thank God. As a whole, I commend the federal, state and [...]
preparing for the worst…
This is off topic for a gardening blog, but my nerves are on end right now as I am preparing to evacuate New Orleans tenatively on Monday (Labor Day), due to the projected path of Hurricane Gustav. I just watched the local news on Bob Breck and the hurricane models are in majority that we [...]
gustav heading for nawlins?
Hurricane Gustav is currently a tropical depression near Haiti, and it will enter the gulf tomorrow and be a major hurricane when it hits the Gulf Coast over Labor Day weekend. I have a bad feeling about this. I hope for New Orleans’ sake that this hurricane moves east, but it is so hard to tell [...]
