Why? It is becoming clearer every day that this crisis goes far beyond a “natural disaster.” The danger that a hurricane of major proportions posed for New Orleans and the region had been discussed for years—with no significant preparations taken.…

I’m in Connecticut and will be blogging for the next several days from Panera Bread in Canton, a smallish bakery chain with free Wi-Fi. Thank you Panera Bread!  Google wants to give S.F. free city-wide Wi-Fi. Maybe one day soon…

Half of New Orleans workers laid off NOLA isn’t coming back, not any time soon, if ever. FEMA is feeble at best. Across the region, hundreds of thousands are homeless and jobless. In a few weeks or months, there may…

As mentioned below, we’re in transit to New England. Blogging will be on an intermittent basis the next few days, as my sister doesn’t have high speed Net access. Imagine. I’m not even sure I remember how to use a…

We’re leaving for Connecicut tonight. Had planned to do a bit of leaf peeping. But not this year. My sister just emailed – Regarding leaves changing: Well, I’ve just learned that even in Northern VT, on the Canadian border, the…

A total of 108 low producing oil and natural gas offshore platforms were destroyed by hurricanes Rita and Katrina and some of the other 53 heavily damaged platforms could be offline until next year, the U.S. Interior Department said on…

Hurricane forecasts. Dr. William Gray, the famous hurricane forecaster at Colorado State University, predicts more hurricane fun (More hurricanes coming): Gray is calling for three more named storms this month, with two growing into hurricanes and one becoming a major…