Don’t you just love how a natural disaster brings out the best in people? In a small, stuffy trailer Tuesday, on the northern tip of a decimated island, an international showdown was brewing. Moments earlier, Mexican Consul General Jorge Lomonaco from Miami walked among uprooted trees, peeled aluminum and shells of homes in the Pink [...]
Archive for August, 2004
Something to think about
August 18, 2004
People in SW Florida are really hurting right now. No refrigeration, shortages of basic staples such as water and food, a broken infrastructure, sweltering heat. I could go on and on, but most everyone has an idea of what’s happening and the fact that this is the direct result of an unavoidable natural disaster. (We [...]
Get Up with MorningWood
August 17, 2004
Get Up with MorningWood, on 70,000 Watt Community Radio WMNF 88.5 fm, Tampa, and streaming at wmnf.org. 4 to 6 am (eastern) every Tuesday! Studio line: 813-239- WMNF WOOD THANKS! Thanks again to all the loyal WMNF and MorningWood listeners who called in during WMNF’s recent marathon fundraiser for our new building. Blogging on the [...]
Vote early
August 16, 2004
Starting today. All over Florida. Beginning today, voters can cast early ballots at several polling places in Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando and Citrus counties. Early voting for the Aug. 31 primary runs every day, except Sundays, through Aug. 30. In partisan elections, only registered Democrats and Republicans can vote unless the primary determines the final [...]
Jeb!’s jack-booted thugs intimidate black voters
August 16, 2004
I mentioned this in passing about a month ago, then it was forgotten amidst all the other mini-scandals and stories of pre-voting intimidation.
Blogging Charley
August 13, 2004
Wow. Everyone thought it was coming right up the mouth of Tampa Bay. I’m not looking forward to all the work taking down plywood and such, and I guess I have a lot of food to eat tonight and tomorrow, but I’m so glad we missed the brunt of this storm. Actually, Tampa missed just [...]
Blogging Charley
August 13, 2004
UPDATE – 120PM – Looks like it’s rapidly strengthening. Went to a Cat 3 a little while ago, and the NWS is getting ready to make it a Cat 4 – 140 MPH winds reported. Still looking for landfall near Charlotte Harbor. I’m glad I’m not down there. Looks like Charley’s gonna make landfall South [...]
Blogging Charley
August 13, 2004
Updated – DOH! I can’t believe I’ve been misspelling the name of the hurricane… Still waiting for the hurricane… Very quiet streets. Lotsa people boarding up – I just finished a 4 hour marathon of cutting and drilling. Businesses and schools are all closed. Many people in close by neighborhoods have been told to evacuate. [...]
Blogging Charlie
August 12, 2004
UPDATED 8:30PM -Tampa, FL – Things have calmed down considerably traffic and store wise. The shelves were empty, but so were the aisles, eerily so, especially after the madness I saw firsthand earlier today. The surface roads are all but deserted. I imagine the Interstates are still heavy, but I think I was caught in [...]
No respect
August 12, 2004
An incumbent Democratic congressman from Louisiana tried some sneaky trickery this week, and it looks like he just may get burned for it. First, Rodney Alexander has been running for reelection, raising money, wooing voters, asking to be sent back to Washington, as a Democrat. He even filed papers to qualify for the ballot. Then, [...]