conference. He's feeling better today, knowing that so many have
evacuated. (WWL's audio is ahead of the video, probably due to the
Flip4Mac plugin.) I also can watch the WDSU feed and see that it is
many seconds ahead of the WWL feed and appears to be in sync.) People
are hanging out in Uptown.
Tornados in Lafourche and Terrebone parishes. What a place to live.
Bill Nungesser, Plaquemines Parish President, is one fat man.
Sheriff: "Don't let this become another St Bernard..." Troublemakers
will be sent to Angola... Pres; "This is not nothing to fool with."
You mean it is isn't anything to fool with or don't fool with it but
not it isn't NOTHING to fool with...
DSU female anchor: "Do you known the percentage of people who would
have stayed...", meaning the percentage of people who stayed, not
WOULD HAVE stayed. They mean two different things.
People can get 10 sandbags per person in one of the parishes. How
much good could that do?
34 ft wave heights.
The DSU map has "Fl" over Florida but no other state abbreviations.
Sloppy. And Fl should be FL.
25 inches of rain possible.
Good traffic coverage by WWL.
Wind will start in NO at midnight.
Obama phones in to WWL. He wants to make sure everything that can be
done is being done. What position is he in to do that? Anchors
interrupt him, assholes.
It takes 2 hours to go from NO East to the twin span on i-10.
Obama on DSU now.
Bush on WWL. He's not going to the GOP convention. He's going to
Austin, San Antonio. He's calling it a "difficult situation". You're
on your own folks.
DSU: They show Barack Obama lower third as they show Contessa Brewer
in the CBD. Audio way ahead of the video.
DSU: If the contraflow began at 4am, why does it say contraflow
begins on the graphic? (It's about noon NO time.)
Aaron Broussard on WWL. 85 % of people on the West Bank in Jefferson
Parish have evacuated.
DSU reporter interviews a guy in a bar in the Quarter. He is staying
because he doesn't trust the government to take care of him. They
didn't last time, he says. He'd rather get shafted by Mother Nature
than the government. OK. Stupid but OK.
Angela Hill still on WWL. WWL meteorologist looks like a blond Tina
Fey with those glasses. The storm coming in earlier is great news?
WWL: Worst winds expected in Terrebone and Lafourche parishes.
DSU: Mary Landrieu on. Yes, get LA it's share of oil revenues. She
questions why people think it is strange that people say people
shouldn't live there but it's ok to live in coastal FL which gets hit
by hurricanes as much . I agree. If they had fixed things up after
Betsy, etc... "we would be in a great shape today."
DSU: "This is a very interesting right now development.' Idiot.
We lose audio on WWL.
DSU: He draws the path of Betsy and calls it similar when it went WAY
off the projected track for Gustav and only met in NO. ...You've had
good luck and good fortune?
No audio on the WWL feed still.
WWL audio is back, 1:36 NY time, but it's overmodulated.
Gov JIndal on now. 15,000 (assisted) evacuated out of NO by now. 2
trains out, that's all?
DSU has a split screen showing highway traffic but they don't say
where the highways are.
Gov Jindal lists the preparations which sound good. We'll see how
well they can handle it. He talks about the buses that didn't show
up. They have more capacity than there is demand. Let's hope. Pet
evacuations contractor didn't do what they were supposed to do either
but the state has made arrangements to cover that.
State police say 200,000 have left NO? Seeing minimal traffic flow in
NO. Things are working so much better now than they were with
Katrina, he says.
2:25 NY time: WWL still loud and overmodulating.
St John Parish President is expecting 96, 97 mph winds.
My computer is averaging 95% CPU use with two Quicktime windows open.
One fan is running constantly, the rear left. The rear right has not
come on since I had the board that had the faulty USB connector on it
replaced. Hope the computer doesn't overheat.
FEMA thinks it is ready for the storm.
3:39 NY time: WWL feed is starting to get jerky. Lots of users I'm
guessing. I close both streams to let my computer cool off.
I watch some on CNN. John King points to three canals, the London
Ave, the 17th St and the Industrial Canal, calling them all the
Industrial Canal. Is it too much to ask that newscasters give out
correct information?
CNN: 'No one understands the situation as well as (General Honore).
Apparently CNN too.
McCain on now (4:03 NY time). Obama beat you by several hours. It's
time to open our hearts, efforts, wallets..." He sounds stilted, the
same as Bush, out of touch. He's asking the Republicans to be with
the Americans. So, Republicans are so removed that they have to be
asked to join in? They are begrudgingly changing their plans. (Gee, I
wish that storm didn't get in the way.) RIck Davis of the RNC: "The
reason we are not able to give you a more notice..." Nobody knows how
to speak anymore.
Rick Davis: They will 'refrain from giving any political rhetoric' tomorrow.
Rick Davis: 'The President's full undivided attention is in the
Gulf.' Wouldn't it be ON the Gulf? His attention is in the Gulf? Is
he in the water?
Fox: Saw "uparmored humvees"... So they have "uparmored Humvees" in
the US. Do they have enough in Iraq?
5:52 NY time. Lafitte mayor mentions they have portable levees!
That's a cool development.
DSU reporters talk to people who are staying. They feel confident
they will be ok for no good reasons, (Car dealer feels ok in his
gut?!). I hope they talk to them after the storm. See if they sing
the same tune.
Billy Nungesser is riding house to house to try to get people out.
This man is a hero. 'If he can save one person, it makes it all
worthwhile.'
Some, who should know, are saying the storm may not be as bad we'd
feared. We'll see,
DSU anchor pronouncing it Gustav'. I'd pronounce it Gus'tav.
6:41 NY time: Chertoff is behind Jindal for this announcement. Cat 3 to 4.
Chertoff is patting everybody on the back for doing good planning.
Less than 10,000 left in NO.
..."Unconformed reports"... - Jindal.
Hurricane winds hit land early Mon morning.
7:12 NY time: CNN: The storm is still heading into the Gulf of
Mexico. Um, since it is already there where else would it go?
7:19 NY time: Good long press conference from Jindal.
Jefferson Parish evacuation went well - Jefferson Parish Sheriff. In
order to beat contraflow? Why would people want to avoid roadways
having twice the capacity to leave?
DSU doesn't mute the audio for helicopter traffic shots while they
have someone else is on cam in a split screen. It'd be a good idea.
7:33 NY time: DSU audio is out again.
CNN: "Obviously that's probably going to be cancelled..." Obviously.
7:36 NY time: CNN: "In 2003, as Katrina devastated"... Um, Katrina
was in 2005. Incredible how much nonsense there is!
I restart DSU stream and the audio comes back.
CNN: 90% of population have left Southern LA.
8pm NY time: NO is starting to look wet and dark.
Causeway is now closed.
DirecTV now has DSU on so I will watch that.
I now see that it is "contraflow", one word.
9 pm NY time: The airport is now closed.
Tornados happening.
Dry air? Over the Gulf? The DSU has personified the hurricane by
calling it "he". He becomes a tropical storm. He weakens, etc.
26 ft storm surge!
DSU banner says the Causeway will close at 7pm Sunday. It is now 9:20
NO time. Is there any point in showing that?
DSU weatherman is saying it is a Cat 3 now and it may be less than
they expected.
~10:30 pm: City Councilman Carter: 'Yesterday, people on the West
Bank weren't taking it very seriously. Then the mayor made his
announcement at 8 am. Then they started taking it seriously.' Um, how
many people were doing anything before 8 am. I think he meant they
weren't taking it seriously on FRIDAY.
SO MANY misstatements.
DSU anchor: "You're always a big supporter of crime." The other
anchor corrects her: "Fighting crime." So many....
DSU's Fletcher Mackel: "The only cars driving by are police cars and
national guard." As he started saying that we saw a taxi drive by.
Travers? Who's Travers? You mean Fletcher? Both the anchor and the
other weatherman addressed him.
Other weatherman Dan Milham who at least is capable of speaking in
proper sentences: "You wanna know exactly how much? I don't know
exactly how much." Well, thanks for sharing.
"Pretty earlier." You mean 'earlier'. (This is an example, as are the
others, of that well known New Orleans brain fog that makes people
say stupid things.)
Landfall before noon tomorrow, they say.
The cops are being understanding about people out in the curfew. THAT is nice!
DirecTV signal goes out at 11:12 NY time, as Ken was telling us what
the plan was for the police at midnight, though he didn't want to
tell us exactly what the plan was. Wouldn't want to the bad guys
know... Signal back at 11:17.
Idiot weatherman Ron Smiley, when asked why they can't tell the surge
height: "We would need something"... "we have that".... He goes on to
mangle some more English but doesn't explain why he can't provide
that info.
"Largest evacuation in US history."
Travers Mackel: 'As we all know, the Ritz-Carleton had severe
flooding damage in Katrina.' No, we didn't all know. Apparently,
there is a Fletcher Mackel and a Travers Mackel or maybe he goes by
two names? Oh my god. I just looked them up on the internet and it
turns out they are identical twins that both work for DSU!
They are still running the banner that says the causeway will close
at 7 pm Sunday. It's 10:34 NO time. What is the point?
They now have FL marked correctly but that is the map that has all
the other states two letter abbreviations. If they show the one with
Florida and mostly the Gulf, that one will probably have Fl on it.
Ron doesn't want to stay on a spot where there is a tornado warning
because they are assuming that all the people there have evacuated.
By that reasoning, why warn anyone at all? Why tell us about any
dangerous situations?
Ron, shut up every once in awhile. Your mouth is running overtime,
way ahead of your brain.
National Hurricane Center: Cat 3
Ron asks about the eye, landfall, type of storm and a few more
subjects all in one mangled, long question. Ed Rappaport, of the
National Hurricane Center, manages an answer.
The term "feeder band" is tossed around often without any
explanation. It would be nice to explain it every once in awhile.
Norman Robinson to Ed Rappaport: "It's always a joy talking to you."
It is? It didn't seem very joyful to me.
There's tension between the reporters and the police? That's the
first I've heard of it in this event.
Paul Folger has diarrhea of the mouth as he does a remote from downtown.
Polly Boudreaux of the St Bernard Parish Council: intense and
articulate. ...know with some assurity? Assurity?
The Weather Channel is saying this is the largest evacuation in the
history of the state. The state or the country? Both?
12:27 NY time: I go to bed.
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