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Sep. 24th, 2005 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynhefarAnd lo, I have weatherèd the storm, and all is well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
Um, yeah.
Despite the power flickers, I never actually lost power, and the parts of Rita that passed over Baton Rouge have since moved on. All clear.
Apparently Houston avoided getting hammered too hard as well, although there are fires in Galveston. Still it's clearly not as bad as it could have been. The towns on the Texas/Louisiana border are in bad shape however. And the levees broke in New Orleans, so much flooding there as well.
It is interesting. My dad mentioned this morning how the great Galveston hurricane of 1900 pretty much created Houston as we know it -- Galveston was the major city at the time, and Houston just a smaller town. But Galveston was so devastated by the hurricane, that many people moved to Houston and never went back, turning it into one of the major cities in the state.
There is speculation that the same thing is about to happen to Baton Rouge. So many New Orleanseans have come here, and many of them have already stated that they will not be going back. It is something to think about.
Um, yeah.
Despite the power flickers, I never actually lost power, and the parts of Rita that passed over Baton Rouge have since moved on. All clear.
Apparently Houston avoided getting hammered too hard as well, although there are fires in Galveston. Still it's clearly not as bad as it could have been. The towns on the Texas/Louisiana border are in bad shape however. And the levees broke in New Orleans, so much flooding there as well.
It is interesting. My dad mentioned this morning how the great Galveston hurricane of 1900 pretty much created Houston as we know it -- Galveston was the major city at the time, and Houston just a smaller town. But Galveston was so devastated by the hurricane, that many people moved to Houston and never went back, turning it into one of the major cities in the state.
There is speculation that the same thing is about to happen to Baton Rouge. So many New Orleanseans have come here, and many of them have already stated that they will not be going back. It is something to think about.
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Date: 2005-09-24 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-24 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 02:13 am (UTC)But still, it could have been much worse, so I can't exactly complain.
Thanks for the good thoughts :)
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Date: 2005-09-26 04:04 am (UTC)MSNBC did a piece "Katrina. What Went Wrong!" Have you seen it? I saw part of it.
Glad you are okay. Hopefully, thngs will settle down a bit now.
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Date: 2005-09-26 03:17 pm (UTC)