09:07 Shoveled out the driveway, sidewalk, and street in front of my house.
23:43 Kate and i went on a disaster-tourism bike ride today. So many fallen trees! Huge lines for gasoline and ice. See
'chimpkadoo' '
katedooley' on flickr for pictures.
One of many reasons I don't have electricity:
This is at Perkins Rd and Reymond Ave.Some of the trees that fell down were pretty big:


midendian: I put a quarter into one of those photos for scale! Can you find it? (-:
Local news at
http://www.2theadvocate.com/ . Apparently Prez. Bush is here, or was at midnight last night.
Apparently we're not going to be able to go back to work for quite a while. The limiting factor right now is that all the phone/fiber links broke and we're not allowed to occupy the site without phones (for fire/other emergencies).
P.S. This office at LSU is like a sauna!
23:48 No one seems to know whether there is really a curfew, but there might as well be; It's spooky dark and nothing is open. Just a cacophony of generators.
01:19 Earplugs = sweet relief from the generators