The in-laws had a little Christmas night gathering Sunday in which the topic of conversation finally rolled around to Katrina damage on the gulf coast. The wife and I talked about our trip through Waveland and the unimaginable level of destruction there. But instead of the standard “yeah, it was really bad” stuff, I got [...]
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New hurricane rating system needed
December 21st, 2005
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There”s word out today that Katrina was “weaker” than first thought when it struck the Louisiana / Mississippi border. The final analysis showed it came ashore as just a Category 3 hurricane. Measurements in New Orleans showed peak winds of just 95 miles per hour. The initial reaction from this revelation has been that it [...]
Lucky? or dumb?
December 20th, 2005
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A couple of weeks ago, a For Sale sign went up next door to The Wisdom household. The house, like ours, was built in 2001 and is quite a nice place. Unlike our house, it”s owned by a man who has a lot of money and who”s made it a showplace. It was already a [...]
Livin it up at the Hotel CaliFEMA
December 12th, 2005
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So it looks like FEMA”s post-Katrina hotel guests will get yet another month of taxpayer-paid lodging, with the mandatory move-out now pushed to Feb. 7. That”ll be roughly five months in residence for those displaced by Katrina who haven”t managed to find their own place to live. At this point, I”d like to remind everybody [...]
Our New Orleans trip
October 6th, 2005
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Loyal Wisdom readers who also read the wife”s not-often-enough updated site may have seen her complete report of our trip, so I”ll spare you all a re-hash of the play-by-play. But some Wisdom is definitely due. Our swing through Waveland was not planned, so we weren”t really prepared for what we saw. That may have [...]
Murder at the Superdome? Not so much
September 26th, 2005
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The Times-Picayune (the New Orleans daily, not the near-worthless Spanish coin) is reporting today that tales of murder, rape and rampant violence at the Superdome and Convention Center were apparently just not true. The National Guard sent a refrigerated tractor-trailer to the Dome expecting to retrieve 200 bodies. They found 6 (four died of natural [...]
My Lunch with MRE
September 12th, 2005
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The wife and I spent a few hours yesterday helping out at a Katrina relief center here in Atlanta. I had a cushy job in the men”s clothing area until a special need arose – an evacuee staying up the road at a Holiday Inn (with 18 family members) had a flat tire. I vounteered [...]
The Superdome shelter
August 28th, 2005
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I cannot let the story of Hurricane Katrina pass without noting the impact of our bullshit “homeland security” hysteria on the situation. When the evacuation of New Orleans was announced, the city established the Superdome as a shelter “of last resort”. Anybody who couldn”t get themselves out of town – namely the poor and some [...]
Note to the media, especially the fast-sinking CNN
August 3rd, 2005
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The fact that all the passengers and crew of that Air France plane survived their plane skidding off the runway is not a “miracle”. No, this isn”t an anti-Jesus rant. This is an anti-media rant. Or, more specifically, an anti-CNN rant. That network is obsessed with the Air France story, calling it a “miracle flight” [...]
The ’07 Santa Fe
July 25th, 2005
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Real-world pals of The Cap”n & Wife know we dig our Hyundai Santa Fe. Great truck, great price. And next year, Hyundai is upsizing and upgrading the Santa Fe. Photos of the new Fe are starting to come out, and I like what I see. But there”s a problem. The new Santa Fe is not [...]
