to look at stories like this and to think that we passed through half of the places on the map just a couple of months ago. We avoided tropical storm Arlene (downgraded from hurricane just before we arrived) by the skin of our teeth and swam in the Gulf of Mexico at Pass Christian, just beside Gulfport, when the weather had cleared up. It was one of the nicest places we visited and it’s saddening to think it’s just been hit by another, much worse, storm.
August 30th, 2005
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on the plus side New Orleans might smell a bit better now.
Oof. Morbid but true.
The FT has a picture of an *oil rig* that was swept into a bridge at the Mobil river. Which was exactly where we were driving around whilst being all smug about how hurricanes were a load of trumpt up nonsense and could one of the bars please move the sand bags, let us in and give us a beer thank you very much. Gulp.