whoa

I think we can all guess what this might mean for New Orleans--a city I feel a certain affection for in part because my current job was initially set up at a conference there. To my untrained eye it looks like a surge from the north (lake Ponchertrain) is likely.

No talk on this blog tonight of global warming or, more importantly, why they delayed the mandatory evacuation notice until after the poor could have had a reasonable chance to leave.

Tucker Carlson's worried about "all those people on the highway"...nice...I feel so sorry about all those folks in SUVs hundreds of miles away from danger while there's tens of thousands of folks inside the city still that are in direct danger.

No, tonight our deepest thoughts and meditations are with all residents of the gulf coast.