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nibotBiking around the neighborhood, I heard for the first time the unmistakable buzz of a circular saw cutting plywood. Sure enough, a few houses now have a few boarded-up windows. I'm still surprised at the lack of visible preparation. This neighborhood is full of expensive houses with large windows, and with enormous old oak trees with rotten limbs ready to become airborne projectiles.
I was just thinking it was a shame that I haven't gotten the Baton Rouge Wiki up and running; a wiki would be a great resource with which to share disaster information, updated in near real time. But of course, someone has set up just that: http://gustavwiki.com/
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interdictor who reported on Katrina from his fortified internet bunker in downtown New Orleans? Well, he lives somewhere else now, but folks are still gathering on his blog. There is an IRC channel:
#interdictor on irc.freenode.net
The physics building at LSU has an amateur radio station. I might check that out. Not sure yet where I'll go: stay at home, go to a friend's house, or utilize my office/bunker at LSU. (It would be nice to find a good hurricane party, but I haven't heard of any!) My house will almost certainly lose power (above ground utilities + lots of big old trees). We're told to not expect to be able to drive anywhere for a while after the storm. I do have a bike to use.
p.s. Also note the #@$% that's going down in MPLS in advance of the RNC.
I was just thinking it was a shame that I haven't gotten the Baton Rouge Wiki up and running; a wiki would be a great resource with which to share disaster information, updated in near real time. But of course, someone has set up just that: http://gustavwiki.com/
Remember that livejournal user
interdictor who reported on Katrina from his fortified internet bunker in downtown New Orleans? Well, he lives somewhere else now, but folks are still gathering on his blog. There is an IRC channel:#interdictor on irc.freenode.net
The physics building at LSU has an amateur radio station. I might check that out. Not sure yet where I'll go: stay at home, go to a friend's house, or utilize my office/bunker at LSU. (It would be nice to find a good hurricane party, but I haven't heard of any!) My house will almost certainly lose power (above ground utilities + lots of big old trees). We're told to not expect to be able to drive anywhere for a while after the storm. I do have a bike to use.
p.s. Also note the #@$% that's going down in MPLS in advance of the RNC.
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Date: 2008-08-31 08:25 pm (UTC)Wish I were a little more prepared... and had friends. and wasn't sick. )-:
I don't even have a camera! I lost its battery charger on the way to California last month.
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Date: 2008-08-31 09:37 pm (UTC)HURRICANE PARTY AT YOUR OFFICE BUNKER!! How friggin Jawsome would that be, ace? And if others were there, you could totally make friends...
Tell Physics Ghost stories ("You can't run away from the dead, they have a super-position of all possible paths..." Zombie-elements that have partially decayed into isotopes...)
You could roast marshmellows, but try to find out exactly the amount of energy to do so? Or something? Ummm... uh... If you have the time, maybe you could even advertise it on campus, as sort of a "Physicists trapped on a desert island/office bunker: what things would you bring to the end of the world" and try to Professor your way into brilliance with coconuts. Maybe.
Anyway, I'm glad that it doesn't sound like total doom for you where you are, I hope. Good luck.