When I saw the Coke Bottle Green sky, I knew something was up, so I grabbed one of my cameras and shot this video and pictures. So far, they're saying straight line winds, and not a tornado. Listen to the wind when I finally run inside and as I struggle to close the door against the pressure of the wind; when I looked at my sliding glass patio door, I was afraid it might blow in on me.
This is video of the heavy Sunday morning evacuation traffic as New Orleans and points south of us move inland. I'm a couple of hundred miles from the coast. This is Interstate 55 just south of Jackson, MS.
The cars are moving at about 50mph, where usually it's 80mph.
Jeff and Patrick, from Louisiana, put together an enormous crawfish boil at the end of the sememester. It is our final year of lawschool.
250 pounds of crawfish were consumed, and a good time was had by all.
At our lawschool's Libel Show, a very good skit of four of our professors in a Jeopardy game. Hosted by "Professor Jackson", the contestents are "McCann", "Challener", and "Hetherington".
In order to keep expenses down on a working trip out west, I've got various food items packed into the car, including some MREs that are a minimum of three full years old (they're pre Katrina). I illustrate the typical contents, and (poorly) how to heat up the entree using the heater bag. :)
This place has the benefit of being big enough to practice in, is on a dead end road, has security right across the street, and is already outfitted with a bedroom and two full baths. Some quick demo and a bit of remodelling, and I could have a place to live and my friends could have a practice space. I would have the most awesome shop ever. It'd be like living in The Bat Cave.
I built a small sailboat called a "Puddle Duck Racer" from plans downloaded off the Internet at pdracer dot com.
One of my law school buddies helped me out by letting me use his truck to carry the little boat to the resevoir. There wasn't any wind, so the sail was no good, so we just rowed with the oars.
I don't think we "floated" so much as merely "sank very very slowly"
A lady found this baby raccoon by her dumpster, and brought it to the pet store, where this nice young lady is feeding it. Apparently raccoons can be raised up and then released back into the wild without too many ill effects.
We finally reached the ghost town of Rodney MS, site of the only time in US Navy history that a small group of cavalry captured the crew of a Navy ship.
The beautiful American West. I'm somewhere on the left hand side of the Continental Divide here. I shot a few clips so that I could show Mom what this country looks like. It's magnificent desolation ou here... it's like the Moon. Well, maybe more like Mars; at least there's SOME water here. :)
Windsor Ruins used to be an antebellum home. It was deemed too beautiful to destroy by the Union forces. In the 1890s, however, a partygoer's cigarette ignited something and the whole place burned down. In today's dollars, it was a 3 million dollar home.
I drove 3 hours to Oxford MS to pick up this generator so that I could power a small air conditioner if Hurricane Gustav knocks us out our electricity for a week.
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