Gustav: Baton Rouge Waits (VIDEO)

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Sunday August 31, 2008 · 9:39 AM PDT

2008/08/31 · 09:39

Here's some video I shot this morning where I live in Baton Rouge.

Although it is not directly on the Gulf Coast, Baton Rouge (largest city in Louisiana) is in the path of Hurricane Gustav ("X" marks the spot, below the fold).

I will try to provide ongoing video clips as the storm advances. Since I can only post one diary per day, you can visit my channel on blip.tv to find new videos as I produce them.

Here's the first one, a kind of baseline of where we are at on Sunday morning, August 31st at 9:25am. Bonus points for spotting the Obama sign in my front yard.

UPDATE: After Katrina we lost power for 8 days. Power lines were destroyed by falling trees (one of which -- a 80 ft. water oak tree -- narrowly missed destroying our home when it came down in the front yard).

Rita was even worse: we sustained over $10 thousand in damage when two trees fell onto our home.

So we're a bit jittery this time around.

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