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After Lili, parish got 9 calls about damage - and $15.4 million BATON ROUGE, La. - (KRT) - Three years before Hurricane Katrina struck, another monster storm headed for Louisiana with winds up to 145 mph. Lili "remains an extremely dangerous Category 4 Hurricane," the National Weather Service warned the night before landfall. "Deadly 10- to 20-foot storm surge approaching the coast." Shortly before reaching the state, the storm weakened considerably, to Category 1 force. Then-Gov. Mike Foster attributed the sudden change to "divine intervention." That same day, the governor asked the president to issue disaster declarations for more than...

MERRY CHRISTMAS...IF THAT'S HALAL I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone Merry Christmas, or Happy Hanukkah, or just Happy Holidays. I am spending the holidays with my family, so I do not know how much blogging I will be able to do. I have to admit that I have never told them about me converting to Islam, or even that I have any particular interest in it. I'm too ashamed--well, maybe not ashamed, but I have no real desire to know their reactions to it, when I know how little they think of Islam. Much of it...

VERMILLION PARISH, LA - Disaster Response-Looting-Carbon Monoxide Death-West Nile By Tuesday thousands of residents were still without power, others without water, as they tried to salvage what they could. President Bush has declared Louisiana a federal disaster area. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said more than 40,000 residents had registered for assistance from both storms and that $4 million in housing assistance had been approved. Such funds can be used for such things as lodging expense reimbursement, small emergency repairs, temporary rental help and mortgage and rental assistance. FEMA said four Disaster Recovery Centers were open in Slidell, Houma,...

DOWNGRADING OF LILI WREAKS DAMAGE IN THE MILLIONS FOR CNN, MSNBCViewers Flee Wall-to-wall Coverage of Boring Non-disasterThe ratings of the cable news networks suffered a savage blow today as Lili was downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane, rendering their wall-to-wall coverage of the non-emergency disastrously tedious. CNN and MSNBC were both expected to suffer losses in the millions as a result of hurricane Lili’s abject failure to produce footage of houses, cars, and other personal property being blown away or smushed. Fox News, which largely avoided Lili coverage and instead featured footage of conservative pundits shouting at liberals, avoided the...

Batten down the hatches if you're in the path of this storm. Expected to be a Catagory 3 when it makes landfall.Stay safe and dry!Richard

The Lili hurricane threatens the mission of the Atlantis shuttle Monday September 30, 2002 - 21h43 GMT Cape Canaveral (the United States), 30 seven (AFP) - the Lili hurricane, which moves right towards the Gulf of Mexico and threat the center of control of NASA in Houston (Texas), could force with the carryforward of the launching of the Atlantis shuttle envisaged Wednesday of Florida, indicated to Monday a person in charge for NASA. If the hurricane, with its winds of 120 km/h, continues on its trajectory, "it is probable that one returns people on their premises to Houston so...

Hurricane Lili Discussion Number 36 Statement as of 11:00 am EDT on September 30, 2002 although flight-level winds do not quite support hurricane intensity...as the peak 850 mb wind reported by the reconnaissance aircraft was 75 kt...of which 80 percent is 60 kt...a GPS dropsonde in the northeast eyewall supports upgrading Lili to a hurricane. This drop had 81 kt at 14 meters elevation...and a low-layer mean wind of 90 kt...which adjusts to about 73 kt at the surface. The advisory intensity is set to 65 kt...and is a compromise between the adjusted values from the aircraft and dropsonde. The...

<p>KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Tropical Storm Lili pushed toward Cuba Sunday with carrying strong gusts and rains that left parts of Jamaica and Haiti flooded and damaged at least two dozen homes.</p> <p>High winds and flooding damaged at least 18 homes in Jamaica on Saturday, and pounding surf flooded six homes on Haiti's southwest tip. Flooding rains and gusty winds were forecast in southeastern Cuba and parts of Jamaica on Sunday.</p>