Video of flooding in the Quarter: eta - about 2/3 down this page [link]

I love Google. I've already determined that my plot bunny is historically plausible: [link]

Ironically, lack of communication meant that neither side knew that peace had in fact been signed two weeks before the battle. Wounded prisoners, all of whom had been well treated in American hospitals, were returned; and the 93rd were able to muster half their original strength when they landed back in Britain.

That's what I needed. British prisoners receiving treatment in American hospitals.

Gonna finish the WIP first, though. I'm in the homestretch on that one.

Oh. Shrub was here. He's not mentioning anything about Katrina in the clips I am seeing.

However, it was a gorgeous day on Coronado and he doesn't seem to have worn a flight suit. Small things, small things...

man, the other video clip was heartbreaking too.

It's all too much. I don't know what to do with this fear and helpless feeling.

The NOLA mayor has said that people shouldn't come to the Superdome but try to find higher ground on a rooftop or a second story tonight. They're also advising people who can to head west to Baton Rouge.

Apparently, the reason for the failure in plugging the levee hole is that the mayor's office and the National Guard had a failure to communicate.

Sigh.

the NOLA zoo animals at the gym

For the cheerfulness factor, I should report that the New York Times once published a photo taken during a hurricane that hit Miami (not the flooding kind, just wind and rain). The Miami Zoo had to do something with all its animals to keep them safe, so there was a photo of all the flamingoes herded together into a restroom. They put down straw on the floor, and there were backup generators so the birds had lights, and all of these gawky pink birds were staring at themselves in the mirror.

My grandfather cut this photo out of the Times, highlighted the fact that it was the men's restroom, and faxed it to all his children in mock-outrage.

(I also have a photo of the Central Park Zoo lion, catching snowflakes on his tongue, also from the Times.)

A lot of the buildings in NO are still standing. They'll be stinky and need new drywall and carpeting, but they're THERE.

But after a few days of waterlogging they may no longer be structurally sound. Water is incredibly insidious in it's destruction. Not to mention id the water is containminated. And they are saying that it may take days or weeks to get rid of the water.

Oh. Shrub was here.

Oh yes, I noticed the battle ship behind him. He does like posing in front of them, doesn't he? Too bad it's the opposite direction from the tragedy and all.

He does like posing in front of them, doesn't he? Too bad it's the opposite direction from the tragedy and all.

I feel the need to watch more news.

Check this out:

6:39 P.M. - JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Senator Trent Lott is urging President Bush to visit Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, telling the president -- quote -- "the people of Mississippi are flat on their backs. They're going to need your help."