BRH

yep, especially as Dwayne Washington's personal escort.

Or perhaps April's comment is just a way to make the Texans waste some time preparing for Parrish on both ST and defense.

I don't know him but his profile says he's from Houma. If there's any good news, that's it, because Houma is well outside the bowl of New Orleans and to its west. Not to say it didn't get hit, but at least he's not in New Orleans.

3...2...1... HD should be happening by any minute now.

Ah yes, the famous Killer Storm From Cleveland. I was in third grade too here in Rochester and they sent us all home early from school. The supermarkets were jammed with people frantically stocking up on supplies. We all hunkered down to wait...and it never came. Veered off south of us or something. We got a few flakes. That was a fun day off from school. I got paid back this past March when I got stuck in your bastard of a snowstorm flying back from Nashville through Cleveland, though. Plane tried to land at Hopkins, bounced all over hell and gone and pulled up at the last second and went to Detroit where they said they'd gas up and try again. I said not with me you ain't. I got off the plane -- they told me I'd have to pick up my bag in Cleveland and I said fine, I don't give a sh-- about my bag. I rented a car and drove to Cleveland, stayed overnight at the airport hotel, and the next morning found that the plane had tried and failed to land twice, first getting diverted to Pittsburgh and then to Richmond for the night. I finally got them to agree to send my bag to Rochester and set out on the road for home. It took me ten hours, including 4 hours to traverse the 40 miles of Pennsylvania I-90. But I much preferred it to another go-round on that frickin' plane.

Not only that, but the next time they go back to fill up another half-tank, the gas will likely be more expensive. So in effect, they're paying more to fill a tank than they would have if they had just filled it up all the way the first time.

My oldest child was born a week after No Goal. It's funny how we mark our children's birthdays and other major milestones with events involving the Bills and Sabres.

Yes, that's true. Infrastructure and advance warning were the only two things that kept this from exacting a similar, if not higher, death toll. The ironic thing is that the infrastructure that helped people get out is going to make Katrina even costlier (in dollars) than the tsunami, because (a) the infrastructure needs to be rebuilt, and (b) it left many hundreds of thousands of living homeless people. Dead homeless people don't cost as much to take care of. I just think that considering the sheer loss of human life in the tsunami, it's not really fair to mention the tsunami when talking about this disaster.

Many congrats! Did you name him after Ned Braden?

I'm not in any way minimizing what happened down there. But that tsunami killed almost a quarter of a million people. A quarter of a million.

At least, it used to. When they built all the levees to protect New Orleans from the Mississippi, it stopped a lot of the sediment from flowing out into the delta and replenishing the islands and marshes that protected the city from hurricanes. As a result New Orleans is some 20 miles closer to the Gulf than it used to be (or, more accurately, the Gulf is 20 miles closer to New Orleans), and those 20 miles make a big difference in both storm strength and the size of the storm surge when it gets to the city.

Food was my first thought. Drugs were my next thought. I probably have that backwards.

Maine and Alaska. I managed to hit Mississippi while visiting Memphis and Alabama while driving up from Tallahassee to Atlanta via Columbus... spending all of about five minutes in both states, which was enough for me and my New York plates. I guess I can rule out hitting all three states in one trip.

I did too, but I assumed that the gators would have been brought in by storm surges from the wetlands south of the city. I'm sure there will be plenty of cottonmouths and fire ants to deal with in any case.

Yuck. I don't know anything about Louisiana -- if you'll pardon my LAMP, it's one of only three states I haven't visited -- but are there gators in Pontchartrain or only in the southern marshes, or both? Because it sounds to me like the water problem is coming from the north.

Six paragraphs of one sentence each. And all of three commas.

Bingo. Or at least they wouldn't have gotten out in time because they would have been too busy trying to cram more stuff into their cars.

but New York's got the ways and means...

The Astrodome is still standing in Houston.

You got that wrong. Everybody lost.

Yes, that was last night... before the levee broke. Things are different now.

I agree, and my guess is that by inquiring about Simon's availability they are tacitly admitting that they don't think Edwards is the long-term answer.

At the very least they should retract the way they spelled it.

Actually it was: "You know how I know you're gay?" "How?" "You like Coldplay." But close enough.

Well, the water is rising fast enough for the Times-Picayune to evacuate its building. linky There goes the last credible on-the-spot reporting agency.