New Orleans erupted after Garrett Hartley kicks a 40-yard game winning field goal. Bourbon Street looked like vintage footage celebration in Times Square when World War II ended.
A Black-And-Gold Superbowl is here!
That is ice on my car. It is day 2 of the Baton Rouge deep freeze of 2010. How cold is it? In the daytime, it gets as high as 34 degrees (F); at night, 18 (F). We have two more days of the freezing cold and then a gradual warm-up to the 60s but until then, another night of 19 degree cold.
The last day of my vacation, so I decided to take a walk to the historic area of Williamsburg. Sites include the College of William & Mary, houses near the college and the merchant district. Also includes ponds that were forming ice.
Two weeks ago, a snow storm hit the northeast, dumping 16 – 20 inches of snow in the DC area. The snow was still on the ground when we arrived to visit my sister, who lives outside the district.
These photos were taken along Interstate 95 and Highway 17 from Richmond to northern Virginia.
From December 12 to the 15, it rained . . . a lot. So much that the pumps could not keep up with the downpour – which has become the norm here in south Louisiana. All the rainwater had no where to go but into the streets, turning roads into rivers and flooding homes and cars.
As of this posting, the amount of rain that fell at the airport was 14.76 inches, making it the wettest month of the year. It’s still short of becoming the wettest month ever; that record still belongs to May 1995 (20 inches in one night).
Those that lived in New Orleans will always remember that night.
These photos were taken at my parents’ house in St. Charles Parish, which took the brunt of the heavy rainfall.
December 14 flood photo gallery
Here’s an example of how much rain we received last night. This is video from WWL-TV shown floodwaters at Mimosa Elementary, a school I attended several years ago.
