what kind of storage is your stuff in?

Ground floor, basically.

We'll see. I'll call them in a couple weeks and see. I wouldn't be going to pick stuff up before October anyway.

NOLA webcams: [link]

Some cams are not working. I wonder why....

I have to do everything in the world at work today, apparently (phone and misc. coverage for two people who aren't here, and deal with some new student orientation stuff as a student, along with my regular job, and apparently my boss has work for me? WTF?), and it's a HUNDRED THOUSAND DEGREES at my desk. All summer it was freezing up here, but today? There is no air whatsoever coming out of the vents on my whole side of the floor. ARGH.

Edit: AND what I really need to be doing is jewelry shopping for a wedding. I swear. Fucking people, mang.

I just looked at myself in the bathroon mirror, and my clothes don't really match. I am wearing an olive green skirt with a blouse that has a blue and sage green floral design. I thought it would look all right when I was half asleep this morning. But the skirt is really yellowy-green and the green in the top is very blue. I'm 35 and I can't even dress myself!

You need to stop looking at yourself in the bathroon mirror - that's the real problem here.

I regularly don't notice that I'm covered in cat hair until I'm well out of the house.

You need to stop looking at yourself in the bathroon mirror - that's the real problem here.

You are right.

I regularly don't notice that I'm covered in cat hair until I'm well out of the house.

Cat hair just seems to be a given. Even when I do manage to lint roller off the cat hair, they seem to do stealth rub ups before I leave the house.

I was gonna say -- granted, it sounds like NOLA won't experience the worst-case scenario of direct hit, category 5 storm, but it sure doesn't sound like the city will be "spared," per se.

The point I'm making is that we were all making burial arrangements for NOLA last night (in an aboveground sarcophagus, natch), but that the most dire predictions did not come off because the storm's eyewall, which would have brought 140 mph winds and the worst of the surge, passed far enough east of the city that the cataclysmic flooding and damage didn't happen.

There's still lots of damage, and there's still flooding, but NOLA will live to fight another day and will not require scuba gear to be visited. I don't see how the Saints will be playing in the Superdome on Sept. 18, though.

wdsu.com [link]

There's a little section on current weather conditions in NO. It says 80 degrees, light rain.

Huh.

I think some people decided to stay in their homes because either the line was very long to get in to the shelters, they didn't have food and water with them (which was a requirement to get into shelters), or they decided that chancing the Superdome flooding with 10,000 people inside to panic or being in their home they'd rather be in their own home.