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unemployable wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 15, 2020 9:36 pm

Path of travel has shifted east and now it looks like Sally will go over... Mom's house.

Unemployable, how is your mom? My friends in Baldwin County, AL are on day 5 without power but otherwise unscathed.

Hurricane Laura's approach was much scarier and from friends who have family in Lake Charles, its still a mess there. Not enough news coverage, but that's not surprising. Most of the news I am getting about the impact for the Lake Charles area is from the Cajun Navy--good name to know if (when ...

Social Distancing Scoreboard based on cellphone data collection. Sorry if this has been posted earlier.
https://www.unacast.com/covid19

I've been happy to find one of the farmer's market vendors is doing a pop-up drive-thru for eggs, vegetables, fruit, and butter. Small town butcher shops (the ones with painted concrete floors) seem to still have meat and are not crowded. On FB there is also a local plant nursery making porch ...

Add NOLA to that list
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_521da3f0-6edd-11ea-8d25-df6fd7d33111.html

"Because the city's hospitals are projected to run out of capacity by April 7, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center has been tapped as a place where 3,000 patients can be housed when ...

@GTOO Do you have thistle? Looks like celery but tastes like cucumber. People consider it a weed and are happy to have you hack it down.
http://plainoldkristi.blogspot.com/2009 ... stles.html

Gilberto de Piento wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:04 pm

https://www.propublica.org/article/sena ... eparedness

And plausible deniability goes up in smoke.
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/81819253 ... n-covid-19

"A breakdown of known coronavirus cases at the county level appears to show Orleans Parish — home to New Orleans — far outpacing other jurisdictions in COVID-19 rate per capita in the U.S."

Mardi Gras is a season, not just a single day event. I can't think of a better way to seed a city.

https ...

Two deaths today due to CV in Louisiana. The governor, John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency on Wed 3/11, closed schools Fri 3/13, and Sun 3/15 recommended that everyone over 60 years of age should quarantine immediately.

In New Orleans, the St. Patrick's day parade was canceled so ...

@Jin+Guice I've heard the anxiety is showing in the grocery store, the man-of-the-house was in Kenner grocery shopping and people were eyeballing his cart to see if he had picked up something they wanted. No meat, no TP, and running low on booze.

:lol: It sounds like you do know NOLA! And yes ...

Received emails from two different federal credit unions, one in Louisiana and one in Texas encouraging the use of online banking and alert members that there may be branch closures for a time. I wonder what that means for safety deposit box access?

Email from J. C. Penney CEO outlining their plan ...

I'm seeing mixed reactions to this virus. Most people are annoyed by the inconvenience and point to statistics that more people die of other things than have died so far... The only people who seem concerned are people who do math for a living. I definitely think that normalcy bias and the ...

I have a preschooler at home so I have made sure the TV antenna can pick up PBS kids at all times, stocked up on cheap supplies to make DIY sidewalk chalk, playdough, & bubble soap. I'm looking hard at a subscription to an online educational platform like ABC Mouse. Set up Skype for the grandparents ...