Blogging the Storm Out

"Riding the storm out. Waiting for the fallout."
- R.E.O. Speedwagon

"When the levee breaks..."
- Led Zeplin

Ron has already put up some good information on the possible disaster in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina, as well as the effect this is having on oil prices. If you, like many of us, are trying to keep up with breaking Katrina information, CNN's Miles O'Brien is live blogging the storm from Baton Rouge. He already has some good entries to read, but apparently he's running on two hours sleep an no coffee.

The big fear everyone has is that if the levees are overcome by the storm surge, Lake Ponchetrain is going to become Lake New Orleans. And it's going to be a nasty, toxic mess.

Ok... there are more than 10,000 people holed up in the Superdome (which is starting to leak in places) and the latest report from the scene is saying that there is "Total Structural Failure" in parts of New Orleans right now. I'm not sure exactly what that means, but it certainly doesn't sound good. Let's all take a moment away from politics, etc. and send some positive thoughts and prayers down to the people stuck in that town.