Hiding out Upstream

Sitting in Hattiesburg, Mississippi waiting for the storm to hit.

Watching the news from home and on CNN.

An interesting (though rather GEEKY) side story is that CNN even has reporters filing their stories via FTP. There are also a number of blogs from the storm front. In particular, here and here.

The good news for New Orleans is that the eye moved ever so slightly east of downtown which probably saved the city from total disaster.

So far up here it's blowing like crazy, branches are flying around outside, and a pine tree across the street just cracked in half. We've still got several hours before Katrina really gets here, but at least we're sitting at higher ground.