[mukto-mona] Gustav and some afterthoughts

Three years ago on August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina's eye passed through the town where I live; consequently, we lost all our worldly goods.  Our spirits were high and we rebuilt our home, bought three new cars, furniture, kitchen and bathroom cabinet, washer-dryer, beddings, and the rest of the things one needs to start a life anew.

 

Now we are threatened again.  This time another powerful cyclonic force had developed in the Caribbean sea and the system is coming to shore somewhere in Louisiana.  As per satellite imagery and prevailing high pressure-low pressure system in mainland USA, Gustav will probably hit the landmass somewhere west of us (100 to 150 miles west of New Orleans).  If this scenario plays out, then we will be safe.  One never knows the erratic behavior of a cyclonic system.  Therefore, we will head northeast harms away from Gustav.  Central Alabama is our destination.  Hotel rooms were booked in advance and we expect to leave early Monday (September 1, 2008) - a day before Gustav comes to the shore with all its fury.  In the aftermath of Katrina as we were rebuilding our house, I made shelving in the garage high above our head.  I placed all my audio recording gears, medium format film cameras (Bronica ETSR-i) those that I purchased in 2006 after losing all my cameras and other stereo amp, speakers on the shelf.  If a devastating hurricane comes and our town is hit again, I expect to save those items placed high above the ground.  My wife is also putting her favorite things in the attic space.  

 

This storm comes at a time when I became active in writing once again.  I was devoting way too much time in audio recording in 2008.  I have recorded only professional blues-jazz and classical musicians' performance.  Someday, I will place a few of my recordings in Mukto-mona to show the quality of musicianship in New Orleans, which is the music capital of America.

 

The last thing I would like to mention here is that it has not eluded my eyes the negative subjective criticism of Obama in Mukto-Mona forum.  I have no problem seeing write-ups from McCain camp.  If supporters of Senator McCain want to make a case (not at the expense of Obama) for the Arizona senator, then there is no harm but to color Obama, a as a Marxist/Socialist, lover of gays and lesbian, promoter of abortion, hater of Corporate America, etc., then I have a great deal of problem.  Let us do objective reporting and analysis.  For example, Avijit Roy did an expose of Governor Sarah Lapin digging information from various sources.  This is all a-OK.  If McCain supporters could find dirt on Joe Biden, lets us then hear it.  No negative campaign in this forum against any candidate should go unanswered.  This should be our motto.  This election on November 4, 2008 is too important for America and the rest of the globe.  Americans wrongly elected GWB in 2000 and the entire globe is paying a high price for Americans' follies.  There should not be a repeat of this in 2008.   

 

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