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Last Gulf blogs standing blog up a storm

12:11 PM Mon, Aug 29, 2005 |
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Monday, 12.11 p.m.
The Irish Trojan and Josh Britton are still blogging up a storm.

Kaye Trammel has lost her net connection and is blogging (pithily, and without links) using her Blackberry (superphone).

A tree brought down Hattie's Hattiesburg, Miss., power lines, and, from the inside hallway of her house, she's phoning a friend in Natchez with blog updates.

Monday, 1:49 a.m.
Lots of fear afoot tonight.

You can watch WWL-TV in New Orleans live on the Web.

Nola.com has the local stories from the Times-Picayune, a blog they're calling Notebook from the Hurricane Bunker, people are posting to a Weather Forum, and a passel of webcams.

More webcams: La. state traffic webcams

We'll see what's showing what in the morning.

Kokunut Pundit: Hurricane Bloggers in the Path of Killer Hurricane Katrina

John Strain of Covington, La., is still blogging from the hospital where he works as a a psychiatric social worker. His lucid reports in John's Online Journal suggest an unusual perspective on Katrina if he keeps this up.

shyblue13 writes in a LiveJournal post, dont know what to expect,

...we had to gather our personal belongs and take our computers to my step-dad appartment complex because he has insurance so were able to get our computer back but what really upsets me is that i have left my 3 cats...see i live in a tralier in laplace and ive seen what those hurricanes could do to traliers but insurrance should cover homes but not little lives that has helped me through difficult times in my life...

More cams: We'll see what's showing what in the morning.

Flickr: Here's an entry point to see photos as they arrive: Tags / katrina / clusters


Sunday, 7:28 p.m.
Rogers Cadenhead couldn't find storm-blogger links, so his readers' comments offered them.

More:
The Irish Trojan's blog has reports, and hurricane links on the left.

Hattie's Blog from Hattiesburg, Mississippi points to a webcam still operating from somewhere on the Mississippi Coast.

Kaye Trammel is a journalism professor at LSU in Baton Rouge, out of the main path. She writes, "As long as I have power, I'll post updates to the (hurricane) blog."

Insomnia has New Orleans Stories -- Hurricane Katrina.

Modblog
from New Orleans planned to stay, but now...:

Preparing for the worst
Date: 8/28/05 at 12:47PM (8h44m ago)
Mood: the other shoe is about to drop drop

This is going to be my last post for a while because I'm afraid there will be no electricity for quite some time after the storm hits. My family and I are going to hunker down in a 2nd floor hotel room and wait this out. The likelihood of severe damage is real. Flooding and ungodly winds are probable. I may not have a home to return to afterwards. We will probably not have a vehicle afterwards either because it will flood that much. My job is going to dissappear as well because it is a restaraunt right on the lake. Katrina is a bitch with a vengeance. I don't wish this on ANYONE. Please say a prayer for all of us here in the path. May God protect us all. Until the sunshine breaks through...

Technorati blog search engine tags: New Orleans, hurricane, Katrina, Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina.

More later this evening.

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1 Comments

TC Byrd said:

Thanks for the linkage! I'll be here until I have to take my dial-up computer off-line. . . .




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