Bracing for Katrina
Better check your sump pumps and tug your boat moorings: latest projections show 
Tropical Storm nee Hurricane Katrina is due to be pounding on our doorsteps roughly 1:00am this Wednesday, with heavy rains and winds up near 60km/hr rampaging across the whole of southern Ontario and on up into northern Quebec.
Said to be the most expensive natural disaster in US history and already being compared to the 1965 Hurricane Betsy and the previous heavyweight champ, Hurricane Andrew, but however bad it may get around these parts mid-week, it's a whole lot worse down in Louisiana ...
At least 100,000 people without means of transportation are believed to remain in the city, although some have made their way to "shelters of last resort" including the Superdome. The government made no attempt to assist the evacuation of those without automobiles. It is worried that if the city floods, it will be nearly impossible to get them out of the shelters, leaving tens of thousands of Americans at risk of death over the coming days.
[ via Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia ]
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Near miss
Ok, seems we're off the hook -- latest projections for katrina's path show the storm veering off, sliding down into the St. Lawrence basin heading straight for Kingston, only grazing Toronto, and missing us by a country mile.
Dancing With Katrina
To show you the power of the blog, and how so mainstream it has become, two reporters post via wireless from the storms aftermath.
You can read it HERE .
Buy your petrol NOW
Noticed on our drive into Owen Sound this evening that all the pumps are selling gasoline at around $0.95 ... so we pulled in to top up the tank.
UPI on 10th told us we were right to fill 'er up now, because she's got orders to raise the marquee price to, you ready for this? $1.19 per litre at midnight tonight. "Due to the hurricane damage to the pipelines". Yeah right.
So if you're online now, get off that darn computer and go fill your tank. It's $0.96 at the UPI in Hepworth ...
Bayshore raises $25,000!
A big bravo to the talk-show crews and listeners at Bayshore's CFOS and 98; at 3pm Sept 6th they decided they had to do something, and by 11am the next morning they'd raised an astounding $25,000 for the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina fund.