About the NOAA site, sorry for the haste of the previous post, but on their main page there *are* Ocean Springs pictures, mainly along Front Beach and East Beach, but the photos cover a few blocks back as well. You can see the Coast areas by going to the main site and clicking on the big index map (with the hurricane track) on the left hand side ( Read more... )

Talked with Bill again. He got his main phone line back up at about 8:30 or 9 p.m. He's gone down Hwy. 90 a few times. The Sav-A-Center on 90 is open, as well as the La-La Land off Exit 57 and some stores in Gautier. The Wal-Mart in O.S. should be opening again tomorrow, if the power situation keeps improving at this pace. The Singing River ( Read more... )

I got ahold of Bill, my buddy from the Grand, earlier today. He rode out the storm in Fort Bayou and they're doing relatively well. He says power is back up through parts of the Fort Bayou neighborhood, and that he should get service by later today, or tomorrow at the latest. He was getting some food and supplies from stores in Gautier. The ( Read more... )

Just posting this to give a heads-up. I'm in Oxford, staying at my friend Robert's house. It's late, and can't from anything from here. The neighborhood is underwater, no doubt about that. Kate Magandy from the Sun Hearld reported that Mary Mahoney's and the Sports Pub and various other familiar Coast landmarks are gone. About 30 people died ( Read more... )

Couldn't pass this news on by. The lesson, as always: Old Testament God doesn't have the "smite" market cornered.

The above headline is from Suns 12th man Paul Shirley, who kept a blog of his experiences in the NBA since mid-March. Just the material centering around his time in San Antonio alone is hilarious. If I could write, it would be like this. (Ok, that's gotta be the 200th time I've said that the past 12 years ( Read more... )

Sweet !

From the I guess if you have it to blow category....

R.I.P., Mitch.

May your stairway to heaven be an escalator. Or if it's broken, you know, just regular stairs.

Ok, all I want to know is, who wants to battle some Morlocks with me....in this sucker?