Hurricane blogging from New Orleans

31 Aug 2008

Willow NeroAn intern in our online group this summer, Willow Nero, is blogging this morning from the New Orleans airport. She's trying to get a flight to France, yeah, a bit far to evac from Hurricane Gustav, but while you're going ...

I started to think things were getting a little weird yesterday when the National Guard drove through my neighborhood in Bay St. Louis and set up camp outside town near the Silver Slipper Casino sign.

Is it just bad luck that I have a flight out of the U.S. to study abroad on the same day a hurricane is coming?

Read the rest.

(Photo by Paul Quinn)



Posted by Jack D. Lail on Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 10:34 AM

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