rob’s place

CNN has put together a quick summary of the impact of Katrina including:

• estimated 80 percent of New Orleans under water, up to 20 feet deep in places. Water still rising…
• …crews put aside the counting of [dead] bodies to concentrate on rescuing the living, many trapped on rooftops and in attics.
• …3,000 people rescued by boat and air.
• At least 110 [people dead in Mississippi]
• Flooding reached 11 feet in Mobile, matching record set in 1917 [in Alabama]

I know it’s really not that important compared to every other priority, but I find it interesting all the impact Katrina is having on sports.

They are evacuating the entire city. Everyone.

Unbelievable.

I finally understood all the talk about flooding and levees and ‘New Orleans under sea level’ better when I saw this graphic of New Orleans.

If you were to draw a line from the top of Lake Pontchartrain across the city, you’ll see that the entire city would flood. The levee on that lake is what is broken. The water will not stop filling up New Orleans until the water level in NO is equal with the lake.

Haunting words coming out of New Orleans as the flood waters rise:

‘I’m not doing too good right now,’ Chris Robinson said via cellphone from his home east of the city’s downtown. ‘The water’s rising pretty fast. I got a hammer and an ax and a crowbar, but I’m holding off on breaking through the roof until the last minute. Tell someone to come get me please. I want to live.’

How do you react to this? What do you do? How do you pray?

Me? I don’t know. I want to slap him. I want to help him. I want to show him love. And I want to slap him. But I don’t know his situation. Why did he stay? I don’t know. Was he stupid? Did he have a legit reason? Who am I to judge? But what I do know is he needs help.

Sigh.

Maurice Clarett will be released by the Broncos this week. Maybe the Bears will sign him. Oh, never mind.

And I was wondering what the NO Saints were doing. They’re going back to Cali.

I turned over to CNN to watch some of the Hurricane Katrina coverage. Larry King was on. Eeek! So I flipped over to FOX and it was worse…Geraldo Rivera. Eeek! So I went to MSNBC and it was some dude in a bowtie named Tucker?

I can’t decide who to watch.

Okay, I’m game.

College Colors Day - 2005:

What is College Colors Day?
College Colors Day, which coincides with both “back to school” on campus and the kick-off of the college football season, seeks to celebrate and promote the traditions and spirit that drive collegiate athletics by encouraging fans, alumni and students to wear apparel of their favorite college throughout the day of September 2.

Of course this doesn’t seem too different from most Fridays…I like to wear orange on football Friday’s most of the time.

Thanks to fanblogs, I know about this.

Central Florida Hurricane Center 2005:

10:50AM
Hurricane Katrina is now up to 175MPH Maximum Sustained winds.

If you are near the coast and in the cone for Katrina YOU SHOULD NOT BE LOOKING AT THIS PAGE

The mayor of New Orleans has issued a MANDATORY EVACUATION. The entire city!

Katrina is a Category 5. Good news is she may slow to a 4…but that’s not very comforting. The satellite of her right now takes up the entire Gulf of Mexico.

Our cousin just enrolled and moved into Loyola University in New Orleans.

This stuff makes me sick to my stomach.

Which do you prefer? Keith likes beef and thinks pork is weird. I think pork is the way to go.

What about sauce? SC sauce is mustard-based. NC sauce is vinegar-based. I prefer sweet/spicy ketchup-based.

The dry rub ribs in Memphis though were awesome!

What do you think?

Well, I feel pretty decent about my draft. We start 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 FLEX, 1 TE, 1 K, and 1 DE. Here’s who I have (for those who care):

QB: Drew Brees, Chad Pennington
RB: Domanick Davis, Julius Jones, JJ Arrington, Kevin Barlow, Chester Taylor
WR: Joe Horn, Laveranues Coles, Ashly Lelie, Keyshawn Johnson
TE: Alge Crumpler
K: Matt Stover
DE: Jaguars, Falcons

What do you think?

Found a great little tool to clean up the crap on my computer. In fact, it’s called CCleaner - Crap Cleaner. It’s good. From their website:

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less that a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!

I can vouch for the speed.

Now this is REALLY cool! It’s a hack of Google Maps and plotting the path of Hurricane Katrina.

FLHurricane.com: Google Map Plot of Katrina (2005) Google Maps Hurricane Track Overlay