When you can't do anything else... blog. (posted 1 September 2005)
Tulane is a well-respected university in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Well, it was a well-respected university. Now, driven from its city by the flooding of hurricane Katrina, and with students, faculty, staff, and administration forbidden to return, the university has been reduced to...
The blog structure (easily updated, arranged chronologically, most recent info at the top) is an ideal format with which to communicate with the extensive Tulane community in exile around the country.
Interestingly, there are no comments enabled on the site. I wonder how long it will be until someone starts a Tulane discussion blog?
Reading back through the posts at the blog, it's surreal seeing how the university sought to take practical, reasonable steps to safeguard its people and facilities, and how those steps (and the projected timetable for resuming classes and reopening campus) were so far off the mark.
[Cross-posted to 340 and Digital Digressions]
UPDATE: Here's a link to a LiveJournal site detailing the devastation from the inside. This is worse than most floods. In most floods, the water rises, life gets really, really bad, people die, and then the water goes away. The Interdictor blog really brings home the bowl-like state of New Orleans -- there's no where for the water to go. It's there. It's gonna stay there. The only way to get it out is to pump all gazillion gallons of it away. Check it out.
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