Our prayers are with our friends in the path of Katrina. If we can do anything to help please let us know. Oh and if you are hanging around, I would recommend getting out ASAP!
Update: Brian set up the Slidell Hurricane Katarina Damage Blog - check it out.
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August 28th, 2005 at 12:48 am
Guys, I am glad you are now safe in Dallas.
September 21st, 2005 at 3:25 pm
[...] to leave as Rita approaches. My advice, get out of town. Sadly I was right the last time.
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July 31st, 2006 at 4:50 pm
[...] Our effort began on August 27th with a post where I suggested, “Hurricane Katrina - Get Out!” Brian and his family were able to leave the small town of Slidell, just across the lake from New Orleans, and get to Dallas before the storm hit. Next, NOAA started podcasting the Hurricane as reported here. I wrote another post on August 30th describing the background behind the Slidell Hurricane Damage Blog where I described the reasoning for the creation of the blog: Everytime Brian and I would talk he was telling about the lack of news from the area. He had little tidbits, but no one had the full story. The picture to the right is the bridge to Slidell. I suggested that he start a blog where he could share his feelings and information about Katarina and its wrath (this seemed obvious since he runs a blog consultancy). Anyway, he had one of the techs set it up and within an hour he was posting. Shortly thereafter a reporter from CNN IM’d him asking for information, next Brian’s high school buddies were calling him after they read the blog and all sorts of people who had little bits of information were contacting him. [...]