Gusty winds and rain all day today, only 1 day after the official end of summer, like clock work. Not that it matters much to most cyclists, they’ll keep riding from A to B. Not even the kid cruising along with his dad in his bakfiets, going home from the supermarket. Just like I did.
Meanwhile, the people in New Orleans and beyond are literally picking up the pieces from Hurricane Gustav, although (and luckily) it wasn’t hit directly. It looks like the (partly) improved levees held their own against potential flooding or other mayhem, but there’s already alarm about Hannah being on the way and Ike building up. I wonder wondered how Kate is was fairing in all of this…now I know.
Philip Turner, 65, rides his bike past a boarded up business along Bourbon Street in the French Quarter as Hurricane Gustav approaches the Louisiana area, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
Update: I just found out about ‘Trouble The Water’ that’s playing now in the US, apparently a very insightful and chilling account of real people from the Ninth Ward in New Orleans who went through the Katrina disaster, the before, during and after. Here’s the trailer:
WHAT TO DO NOW?