The Middle Distance

Prayers and good wishes for the safety of the people of NO. The NOAA web site has a hurricane tracker up if you want to keep up-to-date and an RSS feed.

I have an old colleague from back when I worked for Martin Marietta who has been living down there for several years, I hope he's OK. I have no way to get in touch with him because we kind of lost track of each other over the years, but I believe he ran a restaurant down there. He's a wonderful cook. :-)

The latest NOAA hurricane swath forecast is here
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2%2Bshtml/145105.shtml?3day?large

It shows hurricane Katrina grinding right over New Orleans and then continuing on up the Mississippi River and finally curving off toward New York by the Pennsylvania route. Hopefully by the time it gets out that far it'll be nothing more than lots of heavy rain but even that can be dangerous I've got to keep all my East Coast friends and my prayers as well.

I'm also going to check out the BBC web site, they're really good about keeping on top of breaking news.