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So I say to Lis: "They did one thing right in the New Orleans situation. I don't know if there ever has been an evacuation of a major metropolitan area that got 80% of the people out, ever in the entire history of the world. Getting 65% out is considered nearly impossible. And they managed 80."

Lis says, "How do we know it actually WAS 80%?"

Does anyone know where that number came from? 'Cause it's a damn good point. If 65% is considered a best-case scenario, how did they manage to beat that by 15%? Is it just that people in New Orleans have been worried about the levees bursting for seventy years, and there are dozens of good songs about the precarious situation that New Orleans has always been in, so it's always been in people's minds, so they took it seriously, and a higher percentage of people had evacuation plans in their heads, and made sure to always have the ability to evacuate during hurricane season?

Or is that just a number someone pulled out of their ass? I can see either as being possible.

Oh, and one more thing

There's a REAL temptation to say something to the guy filling up his Ford Expedition at the pump next to you when gas is over $3 a gallon. But, well, what would I say that he's not already thinking himself? He had the weirdest look on his face -- something like "sheepish annoyance."

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Should it worry me that people who read LiveJournal know more about what's going on in New Orleans, thanks to the heroic efforts of interdictor than the President does?

This does show that the President could have done as good a job of co-ordinating relief efforts from Crawford as he could from Washington -- but, unfortunately, if you're reading this, you could do a better job.

A tiger moth.

Maybe a five-inch wingspan. Gorgeous moth. Banging against one of our windows battering itself trying to get out.

I caught it, showed it to the cat to see if she wanted to eat it, then, when she responded too slowly, put it out the kitchen window. It flew away, glittering.

It's a very, very small life I saved. No mind to speak of. But it's alive.

One of the nice things about really cheap jug wine . . .

. . . and I mean, the CHEAP stuff -- $9 for a gallon jug and under -- is that it never spoils.

'Cause, see, it's already vinegary when you buy it. There's no spoiling it CAN do.