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Barbawit will remain on the warpath over the issue of timely return to New Orleans.

Here we have Chris Fairbarin (I don’ care if I spelled her name right) just said. They are just trying to make sure there is a safe environment to return too. Give me a break like the murderous streets of New Orleans arenot safe under normal circumstances, An oxy moron delivered by a real moron.

At yesterdays news conference Governor Jindal said that he was going to aggressively work on getting people back home after the storm. Now he says he is deffering to local governments to decide. What a lying sack of shit he is. Leaving it up to Ray and the chickenshit council of New Orleans to decide when people who are responsible for themselves can return is not aggressively working on getting people back home after the storm. Fucking sack of shit liar you are Bobby.

One thing that I have decided is that I will never obey another mandatory evacuation order given by the government. To all of the government officials who are not letting us back in I hope you all rot in hell you Mother Fuckers.

Jackie Clarkson just announced on WDSU tv that re-entry will not be tomorrow. This is why people do not want to leave when asked to evacuate. It will certainly play into any decision I make next time as to stay or not. I am ready now I don’t have any patience and I don’t have faith that these smiling yo-yo’s have a plan for orderly re-entry. If not tomorrow then when you dumb ass fuckmooks.

I am staying in a rural area right now, it is interesting to notice the difference in how people treat each other. As the garbage truck came down the road this morning the cans were not on the street. We flagged him down, I thought to myself he won’t stop, not only did he stop he helped us pull the cans from the carport to the street. As we pulled the empty cans back to the carport my sister said, ” I bet you won’t see that happen in the city” I nodded in agreement.

Things in New Orleans are better than I could have hoped for. Damage seems to be what you would expect from a cat 3 storm. I am watching WDSU TV this morning, the reports are encouraging. If Katrina weren’t our benchmark the damage would probably be perceived as heavy.

No catastrophic flooding is the big thing, no major looting, no 1000+ people dead. Things definitely went better this time. Luckily this was not the mother of all storms, if it had been a Katrina with a Ktrina storm surge we would have been in big trouble.

Now we will have to see how our fearless leaders get everyone back, every day the city is empty the economy will suffer.

For the most part it looks like the Big Easy is going to be ok. You might notice an edge to my post from here on out I’m ready to go home. ASAP. I will not be happy with politicians who try to delay the return of citizens . If it is delayed it will certainly be taken into consideration the next time the tell me to leave.

1:41 PM Mobile AL.

It is still pretty breezy here in Mobile, the power has flickered on and off for the last hour, much to the chagrin of my my nephew playing his X-box. I have been watching WDSU they are broadcasting nationwide on direct TV. It has been helpful getting news from a local source. Last time I checked Travers Mackel reported that the wave action causing the over topping situation is calming down it looks as if the wind direction is changing and starting to push some of the water out. So far so good in New Orleans if we can make it a few more hours the possibility of levee failure and catastrophic damage will lessen.

I am starting to feel a little guilty, I am very comfortable, have been eating like a king, and taking frequent naps. I know there are many of my displaced friends who are not enjoying the same kind of conditions.

Another band is hitting as I write this, it is one of the stronger ones we have seen today, in spite of that conditions here are improving.

I don’t have to wash my car, sitting in the driving rain all of the dirt has been washed off it, I may be able to dry it in a day or two.

Even though New Orleans is still experiencing hurricane conditions I am already thinking of returning home. At a news conference a few minuted ago the governor said that he was going to aggressively work on getting people back home after the storm. I will hold him to that, it is vital that we get back quickly and get the economic engine running as fast as possible. Not only are we still rebuilding houses and infrastructure in New Orleans from Katrina and the flood, the economy cannot afford to be down for weeks or months. I would say that New Orleans is not quite out of the woods yet, but things are going as well as we can expect when getting hit by a cat three hurricane.

Mobile Al. 9:44 am

It is quiet here the bands are not as strong as they were earlier, if no tornadoes spawn it should be ok here. Reading the local coverage from New Orleans, things seem to be ok so far. No reports of levee failures or home flooding. I hope that continues, I remain in a positive state of mind, a couple of days ago this was looking a lot worse.

The road in front of my sisters house has not washed out it has a tendency to do that after heavy rains. The ditch on the peanut field side of the road is full,

The ditch on the house side is draining pretty well.

It’s not over yet, I am still concerned about New Orleans. At the same time I am keeping in mind that this storm could have been a lot bigger, with a lot more storm surge. There is a report from WWLTV that water is lapping over the top of the Industrial Canal but no reports of levee failures. Keep your fingers crossed that they don’t give. A little over topping is not the end of the world, a failure as we know can be catastrophic.

Watching CNN I just have to shake my head and think of the song Bring on the Clowns. Anderson Cooper is talking about the number of people who stayed in the region, that he reports at 100,000.
Then he goes on to say that, based on computer models 100 people may drown. WTF give the computer models a rest and report what is actually happening instead of writing movie scripts with your computer modeling. Then something real happens, the lights go out behind the reporter. A power failure in the French Quarter. Now that’s news. The camera points down the street lights are on down the block. Ahhh a local power outage. That’s something that someone from New Orleans in exile might want to know. I’m not going to watch this all morning I will give it a rest for a couple of hours.

Here in Mobile at 6:17

The winds are picking up and it is raining steadily, I would descibe the conditions here as tropical storm like. The possibility of losing power is real but all in all Mobile should come through this thing ok. The question is how much water the storm surge pushes in. While this storm can do a lot of damage especially in New Orleans where infrastructure is still fragile, it is no Katrina and the media should stop comparing it to Katrina.