Well, I don’t even know if it’s reached hurricane status yet, but I just got a “breaking news” alert from CNN that Mayor Nagin has just ordered the evacuation of New Orleans in anticipation of “The Mother of All Storms”.

CNN story

“They made it very clear that this storm could be as bad as it gets,“ Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Saturday afternoon of the Category 4 storm, with sustained winds that reached 150 mph. “We could see flooding even worse than we saw in Hurricane Katrina.“

Trooper - 30 August 2008 05:13 PM

Well, I don’t even know if it’s reached hurricane status yet, but I just got a “breaking news” alert from CNN that Mayor Nagin has just ordered the evacuation of New Orleans in anticipation of “The Mother of All Storms”.

CNN story

“They made it very clear that this storm could be as bad as it gets,“ Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Saturday afternoon of the Category 4 storm, with sustained winds that reached 150 mph. “We could see flooding even worse than we saw in Hurricane Katrina.“

I feel for these people. 
However, New Orleans is below sea level. 
It’s only a matter of time before the area gets flooded again.

Dang,

Hasn’t New Orleans taken enough of a beating. Why is mother nature doing to this to poor Lousiana? Does anyone know if this hurricane is going to be worse than Katrina? I’ve heard on CNN that it will hit New Orleans at around 2am Tuesday.

This is really awful.

Panda

Well, I guess we’ll see how well Brownie’s FEMA, and the Army Corps of Engineers did in shoring up the levees.

Another underfunded government mandate.

If you knew how many flood control projects are started (only to have thier funding yanked later before they get done) or how much maintence is ‘defered’ you’d puke.

My wife spent 4 months in Mississippi doing post Katrina work.  Most of that time was spent rewriting the same report so some deserving folks could get a new school.  Her opinion of the DHS era FEMA folks was “obstructionist”.

The news is saying that Gustav has reach category 4? Anybody have a clue if the intensity of Hurricane Gustav is stronger than Katrina three years ago? Was Katrina a category 4 or 5? I am sure people are a lot more prepared this time compared to three years ago. How in the heck is our country going to be afford this to fix this damage while our country is already so much in debt?

Is it just me or are you noticing that we are having these natural disasters more frequently. Starting from 9/11, California Fires, Hurrican Katrina, Rita and Gustav.

What’s next a huge earthquake?

Bite your tongue PANDA.

PANDA - 30 August 2008 06:58 PM

Dang,

Hasn’t New Orleans taken enough of a beating. Why is mother nature doing to this to poor Lousiana?

Some of it is Mother Nature, but plenty of it is man-made.  It’s a long article, but Mother Nature wanted to move the mouth of the Mississippi many decades ago, but Man wouldn’t let her.  Personally, I thought Katrina offered a chance to make it right and let the river go where it wants.  Silly me.

After Katrina, I heard the levees and other flood control infrastructure are in worse shape than before Katrina hit a few years ago.  If the lady go to NOLA again, it will be very bad for the people there.

We already spend billions on NOLA in past few decade, and billions of dollars will be needed to keep Mother Nature at Her chair.  We can either do a Olympian job on NOLA this time (after Gustav’s visit) and show the world that we can accomplish the same type of engineering and construction like the megaphilia projects that the Soviet did in Siberia, or we can give it away to the French for $1, and let them deal iwth it.

Sorry, been drinking again.

I just popped in for my weekly dose of Banksy, and look what I found…

It looks like Banksy has been busy

PANDA - 30 August 2008 08:55 PM

The news is saying that Gustav has reach category 4? Anybody have a clue if the intensity of Hurricane Gustav is stronger than Katrina three years ago? Was Katrina a category 4 or 5? I am sure people are a lot more prepared this time compared to three years ago. How in the heck is our country going to be afford this to fix this damage while our country is already so much in debt?

Is it just me or are you noticing that we are having these natural disasters more frequently. Starting from 9/11, California Fires, Katrina, and Gustav.

What’s next a huge earthquake?

It’s our nature to want and find trends and patterns, it helps us make sense of the world. Problem is that human see patterns where they don’t actually exist. For example, hot and cold streaks for athletes with some exceptions have been proven to have no statistical basis. Stock brokers performance, ditto. Occurences of similar phenomena, like celebrities dying in threes has been researched and found to be temporally inconsistent, meaning that people change their window of event inclusion until and only until the “third” event occurs. Sometimes it’s four weeks, sometimes it’s for months. Perception is flawed.

Peter, there is one on Melrose that I can’t quite attribute to banksy….but it is so like his style, I’m leaning that way.  I’ll take a pic and post and see what you think.  I’ve looked all over the web and haven’t seen it anywhere.

Also, I believe he hit Hollywood 2 weeks ago and did an rip off of Shepard Fairey’s Obama.  I spotted it the other night on a fence where one of Fairey’s posters had been stapled.  Do you have a clue whether he’s been in the LA area lately?  This Obama is pretty new.

It’s a copy of this:  (love Fairey’s “Obey” stuff)

My wife did a consulting project for a major oil company in regard to thier exposure to hurricane.  One of the databases she has access to is the data for the storm track (courtesy of the US Weather Service) of every hurricane since they’ve had data.  Nothing from the mexican border to the Florida/Georgia border is safe.  ALL of it has been ran down by the eye of a hurricane one time or another.  Over a long enough timeline, everyone is fish food.

Trooper - 31 August 2008 08:04 PM

Peter, there is one on Melrose that I can’t quite attribute to banksy….but it is so like his style, I’m leaning that way.  I’ll take a pic and post and see what you think.  I’ve looked all over the web and haven’t seen it anywhere.
  Do you have a clue whether he’s been in the LA area lately?

Yes Troop, take a pic, I’d love to see it plus banksy has done quite a lot of stuff in LA, he’s even had an art expo there, google “banksy los angeles” and you’ll find some stuff, but I guess you already did, right?

Banksy is great.

Mr. Munnery would not divulge the artist’s identity. Banksy “requests the right to remain silent,” he said. “He insists on it.”

But the artworks are Banksy’s alone, he said. “And I do know that some of them took literally hours to paint.”

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Those freakin Bobbys…

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The LA Times just did a piece on Fairey...

I hate and despise taggers, and wish I could beat them over the head with their spray paint cans. But, there are so many great graffiti artists out there whose reputation gets ruined by these taggers. Graffiti art was the last great art in the art world before it died, and it combined itself with pop art and other mediums before its death. I am so happy to see people such as Troop and Petah, who appreciate this art. It truly makes me smile.

I think I need to take a road trip up to LA and photograph some of the scenes as well as the art, and post them here on IHB. So, if you have particular locations of great art, please post them here so that I can re-post the photos here too.

Graph, here’s some banksy stuff in LA along with a map of where to find it….

Wow, this has been hi-jacked.

Yeah, I knew about last year’s L.A. show Petah, but didn’t really come to appreciate him until after all the publicity from it. 

G, come on up anytime….I’ll give you a tour.  I’ve found several others that aren’t on that site (yet).

Will posts pics in a few days.

This is the most prolific of Fairey’s stuff….it’s all over L.A., has been for years.  I always wondered what it was about, so I finally googled the words obey and Los Angeles and found him.

anyone who has spent time in L.A. has inevitably seen one of these.

And these too…..took me quite some time to find the artist.

Berds

Sounds like a similar hooligan we had with some of our vacant lots growing up in SD North County…  Some skater punk kept on putting up quarter- and half-pipes on them.  His last name was “eagle” or “falcon” or something like that… sometimes I wonder what ever became of him, if he ever amounted to anything.

Hey Graph and Troop banksy blows by Alabama pffft!!