You've evacuated, silly, and are looting.

Oh, never mind, then.

As many as 30,000 people were being housed in the Louisiana Superdome, where toilets were overflowing and there was no air conditioning to provide relief from 90-degree heat.

I don't think it is 60K yet.

I have no idea what you are talking about. Who said 60? It wasn't me, certainly!

In any case, I'm actually not capable of distinguishing between the two. I know one is twice the other, but when it comes to lots of people in one place, my brain goes, "One hundred, five hundred, one thousand, many."

I'm like that on the whole thing, honestly. There's like, not so bad, pretty bad, and then jesus christ what are we going to do?

Mississippi is flooding 6 miles inland. That's what CNN says.

they had found people to say how genuinely he felt their pain. So there you go.

He might have the stuff for one-on-one, as others mention, but Clinton made such a pavane out of public emotional connection that it's hard to compete with him. (I also suspect that GWB is good with a particular kind of people, and bad with lots of others, while even some hard-core republicans were appalled to discover that they really liked Clinton's civic bathos.)

Everybody is passing tests! First Stephanie, babe in arm no less (or, babe in belly? I have forgotten the time schema), and then Emily! Now JZ will arrive and tell us she got an A in Advanced Can-Can Dancing. Congratulations and those little stress-relief squeezy-balls all round.

So, Prison Break -- at one point, the guy he got the drugs from says something about him only being there three days, at which point he'd been to the infirmary twice. So except for the doctor's "See you Wednesday" comment, it did look like he was going every day to get his shot. I'm not sure what he expects to accomplish by sitting there staring at the vent in the floor for ten minutes every day, but I guess that's what the rest of the season is for.

As for the video, the gunshot flashes (and sound) could easily have been edited in after the fact -- hell, I could do that kind of effects work here at my desk at home. All they would have needed was for Lincoln to stand still with the gun for a few seconds.

It's really kind of mindbending. Upwards of how many thousand people, accustomed to first world living, thrust into (forgive me, functioning third worlders, cause they don't have access to helis and MREs and whatnot) nearly the third world. It's a brutal adjustment. In at least a few feet of fetid water.

I just can't... I mean, god.

OK, so should an (unlikely, hills) hurricane evac hit me, I'm loading me, my cats, my laptops, my art, my journals and a few other precious items and photos and as many of my uncar-ed neighbors (Miss Louise, I'm looking at you. Even if I have to haul you out bodily) as possible and driving out. I don't want to be there.

Watching footage of people REFUSING evac even now "to save their home"... I mean, I can understand their logic, but it is faulty logic. Good luck, but frankly, that's a stupid decision. Driven by fear and denial. And it makes it so much harder. I'm in the opinion that they should just haul people out, honestly. Yeah, dictatorial and whatnot, but jesus. It's about lives, whether they want it or not. The gov't and agencies can take better care of people out of there than in right now. Every living person that remains in will cost more, and thus mean less for the rest.

I can't quite wrap my mind around and empty city of that size.

Mississippi is flooding 6 miles inland.

God, it sounds like Bangladesh.

In wingnut news, Salon has this:

So when Hurricane Katrina hit land yesterday, we knew it was only a matter of time before we'd be hearing from the lunatic fringe again. And now, here it is. In an email message we just received, a group calling itself Columbia Christians for Life alerts us to the fact that a satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it hit the Gulf Coast Monday looks just like a six-week old fetus.

"The image of the hurricane . . . with its eye already ashore at 12:32 p.m. Monday, August 29, looks like a fetus (unborn human baby) facing to the left (west) in the womb, in the early weeks of gestation (approx. 6 weeks)," the email message says. "Even the orange color of the image is reminiscent of a commonly used pro-life picture of early prenatal development."

And in case you're not getting the point, the email message spells it out in black and white: "Louisiana has 10 child-murder-by-abortion centers," the groups says, and "five are in New Orleans."

But why would God single out Louisiana? Other states have many more abortion clinics, and Louisiana and the other states hit hardest by Katrina all voted for the pro-life president of the United States. It didn't add up for us at first, but the Columbia Christians for Life have an answer for everything. God has already punished California with earthquakes, forest fires and mudslides; New York with 9/11; and Florida with Hurricanes Bonnie, Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne and the early version of Katrina.

People can whap me for these spur of the moment musings: If anything, Bangladesh will return to "normal" faster, but minus a larger portion of the population.

This makes me muse on the cost balance. More tech, more development, fewer lives lost, but at a cost of longer recovery. Less development, more lives lost, but faster recovery?

What a horrible equation, either way.