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Jefferson Parish re-entry

Written by ray on September 2, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Broussard is on 870 AM right now with info on re-entry timetable for Jefferson Parish. Tier 1 and Tier 2 people with placards can enter at noon today. If you’re Tier 2 and don’t have a placard, you can get one at http://www.jumpstartjefferson.com. At 5PM tonight, Broussard will announce the timetable for general population to [...]

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A classmate hero in New Orleans

Written by ray on September 27, 2005 — Leave a Comment

Robert Landsden was in my high school class in New Orleans, and is now a captain in the Navy. Another classmate just forwarded around some links to an article in the Times-Picayune describing his heroics after Katrina. He found himself sitting on a ship with a large cache of fuel and disobeyed orders in order [...]

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Aaron Broussard makes Russert his bitch

Written by ray on September 25, 2005 — Leave a Comment

Update: Quicktime link here. Russert appears surprised to learn that Broussard hasn’t been sitting around reading blogs the past few weeks. Gina ran downstairs to tell me about this interview this morning right after it happened. Link to the video is here. I haven’t watched it yet (typical MSNBC, I don’t have the right software [...]

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Interactive flood data map

Written by ray on September 8, 2005 — Leave a Comment

This link here takes you to a webapp that gives you flood depth information just by clicking on a map of New Orleans. It uses Google maps combined with satellite and LIDAR data to give an average flood depth within a 100×100 foot region around the point where you click. http://mapper.cctechnol.com/floodmap.php This is really cool, [...]

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Metairie family update

Written by ray on September 8, 2005 — 2 Comments

My brothers Mark and Bill went into Metairie yesterday to survey the damage and salvage what they could from Mark’s house. I had a very brief talk with Mark yesterday (brief because he was breathing hard from working) and a longer talk with my sister-in-law Anne today. Miracle of miracles, I reached Anne on her [...]

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“Body-bag time”

Written by ray on September 5, 2005 — 4 Comments

My very first post on Katrina was at 7am on last Sunday morning, when I first saw that the storm was still on track to hit New Orleans and was now a category 5 hurricane. That post had a link to an NPR story from last year about the possible consequences of such a storm, [...]

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Jeff Parish President breaks down on MSNBC

Written by ray on September 5, 2005 — 1 Comment

Watch this now. Put down the remote and watch this now. The important part is at the end. Aaron Broussard on MSNBC. MR. BROUSSARD: I’m telling you most importantly I want to thank my public employees… MR. RUSSERT: All right. MR. BROUSSARD: …that have worked 24/7. They’re burned out, the doctors, the nurses. And I [...]

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Detailed NOAA satellite images of flooding

Written by ray on September 3, 2005 — Leave a Comment

Tonight my brother Mark and I were able to see the flooding at his house very close up. Detailed enough that we could tell that his car in his driveway was in water but the trunk and hood of the car were not covered. These are the best photos yet of the damage, very useful [...]

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WWL: Jefferson Parish WILL be open Monday morning

Written by ray on September 3, 2005 — 2 Comments

Despite news reports to the contrary, even information on the Jefferson Parish website, residents WILL be able to get into Jefferson Parish on Monday morning at 6am. Apparently there is even confusion within the Jeff Parish EOC itself, but the word on WWL from Aaron “The Dictator” Broussard himself is that you can get in [...]

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