That overpass is right by my parents' house.

Well, fuck. Hope they still have a house when they get back.

Aha. They are so cool, they do not need a 4th call letter.

There are a surprising number of radio stations that have held onto their three-letter callsigns all these years. KGO, KOA, WLS, WKY, WSM, WSB, KVI....

TV stations were allowed to use three-letter signs so long as they were owned by a radio station with a three-letter callsign. However, when the ownership of radio and TV station split, the TV station has to get new call letters. Thus, KOA-TV in Denver became KCNC, WKY-TV in Oklahoma City became KFOR, etc.

The three-letter call signs were usually initials or short for a slogan. WLS stood for "World's Largest Store," being that they were originally owned by Sears. WSM stood for "We Shield Millions," the slogan for the insurance company that owned the station.

Anyway, I can't remember what the two W's in WWL stand for, but the L stands for Loyola, the university that ran the station initially.

Hi, DW, by the way. Do you know it took me like an hour of "DW" posts to figure out that you were not "dear wife" or some other cheeky nickname? I am slow at that sort of thing.

I sign nearly everything dw now; I started doing that on e-mails six years ago and it kinda stuck. And it makes more sense than the reversed Dylan W I use for my e-mail.

And I ain't no wife. I have so much testosterone the hair on my head never had a chance.

For the record, I have no firsthand knowledge of the noodliness or lack thereof of any of Dylan's appendages.

Can we keep it that way? Thanks.

I want a lemon square.

Oh, okay. Because I didn't even want mine.

I only ate it for shrift.

WSB in Atlanta is "Welcome South, Brother."

Ah.

Imbraguglio learned that she lost her home when the St. Bernard levee broke.

That's why that area is flooded.

In Kansas City, we have WHB which stood for "World's Happiest Broadcasters".

I've been singing the WWL radio jingle in my head all day.

"double-double-u-ell-eight-seven! news radio!"

Doubleyooo-ellll-doubleyooo --- Cincinaaattiiiiii!

Doubleyooo-
ENNNNNNNNNNNN
bee-seee

Doubleyoo-ay-pee-ell -- Apple, rockin' to the core!

Oy. But it looks like it's weirdly neighborhood by neighborhood in an odd patchwork, depending on where the pumps failed (9th ward) or where the levee was breached (Kenner). I don't know why Chalmette is under water though.

This is going to sound like a strange comparison, but it sounds like the flood Tulsa had when I was 12. The eastside was under 8 feet of water, and a few houses near us had waist-deep water for weeks. But we had nothing, and the river itself didn't flood. And while some of it is explainable -- the eastside had 12 inches of rain in 5 hours, the nearby houses were built on a creek that had been culverted -- a lot of it wasn't. One low spot would be under 4 feet of water, while another half a mile away was dry.

Not Hurricane Of The Century(TM), but it was the worst disaster I ever saw as a kid, and I learned a lot about hydrology (though I still made only a B in hydrology in college.)