Birmingham Blues

Local readers, take note. Hurricane refugees are taking shelter in the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center. From al.com:
Storm refugees take shelter in Birmingham
We just got a report that the Red Cross has taking refugees from Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana to the Birmingham Jefferson Covention Complex exhibition hall.
They are in need of items such as [...]

I’ve been watching hurricane coverage today, and it makes me feel so helpless to do anything. Can’t even access the Red Cross website, but that’s probably a good sign. If you’re looking for a disaster relief agency to support, and you can’t get to the Red Cross either, here’s another option:
United Methodist [...]

I’m back up and running here in Birmingham, but there are still over 100,000 people without power in the metro area. There are power crews from all over the Southeast here to help out, and I’m sure lots of them are on their way to the coast.
I know you’ve seen pictures of the devastation [...]

…or blogging while we still have power. The first waves of Katrina are swirling around Birmingham right now. There are tornado warnings all around us but none in our county yet. The storm is moving faster than expected, and we’ll see the rain and winds from the feeder bands through [...]

Pressure is down to 902 millibars, winds up to 184 mph. When the weather reporters are planning to evacuate, you know it’s going to be bad. Pray early and often!

Hurricane Katrina was just updated to a Category 5, with winds of 160 mph, and it’s heading straight for New Orleans.

The people in the path of the storm need lots of prayers right now, and they’ll need lots of assistance once the storm is past. It’s a relief here in Alabama just to [...]

Tricia (my 12-year-old) and I worked at Alabama Animal Adoption today. We have been volunteering there a little over a year, loving on cats and dogs one afternoon a month in the hope that they will be adopted by loving families. Animal Adoption is not a shelter; it’s only open on weekends, and [...]

I saw a bumper sticker today that almost made me wreck my car. I’m used to the little black squares with the white Ws. Or the red, white, and blue “patriotic” Bush-Cheney stickers. But this one actually read:
Thinking Women Vote Bush
This would express my opinion much better:
You’re a Woman, and You Voted [...]

One of Pat Robertson’s flunkies must have pointed out that his call yesterday for the assassination of Hugo Chavez was caught on tape. Pat spent the morning denying what he said, even though it had been replayed on every news station in the country, and maybe the world. You’d think the head [...]

Pat Robertson is now trying to back off of his statement that the US government should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Now he says he was misinterpreted. Sure. Of course he was.
“I said our special forces could take him out. Take him out could be a number of things including kidnapping,” Robertson [...]