Monthly Archives: September 2005

Land Parcel Viewer for Biloxi

By | September 3, 2005

I found a link on the City of Biloxi website that led to a portal for viewing land parcels in Biloxi. You can search by building address or by owner. The Coast Civil Defense and Emergency Management officers released updated hurricane evacuation zone maps in 2001. That page on the WLOX site has links to… Read More »

Update on Mom’s House

By | September 3, 2005

My mother and the friends she evacuated to Mobile with drove back to Biloxi this morning. Although the front of the house was fine, the back patio door blew in, despite having a dead bolt lock. There was water damage to the carpet and an oak table, as well as a bunch of dirt and… Read More »

Katrina Google Map

By | September 3, 2005

Someone has put together a Google Map that lets you add markers for locations where you know information about buildings or people. There are already a lot of markers on the map. Update 10/14/05: I just ran across a page at Google Maps Mania that lists a lot more sites that have integrated Google Maps… Read More »

My Mom’s House Appears Okay

By | September 3, 2005

The husband of one of my Mom’s friends drove by my Mom’s house today and reported back that the only obvious exterior damage was a few missing shingles. Fortunately, she’d had a bunch of work done on the exterior of the house recently. While that might seem like having it rain after you washed your… Read More »

Post-Katrina Aerial Photos

By | September 2, 2005

NOAA has posted detailed aerial photos from this week. I was told by a friend that they were satellite images, but I’ve since read that they were aerial photos. I thought they were a little too detailed to have been taken by a satellite. They have an image map of the area where you can… Read More »

Katrina Updates

By | September 1, 2005

I updated my Katrina Video post to contain a couple more links to videos, mostly from major news networks. There’s not that much amateur video out there, yet, since most of these people don’t have electricity, much less an internet connection. Later today, I plan to post some info on how radio and television stations… Read More »

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

By | September 1, 2005

And in a needed break from the mostly depressing hurricane news, I bring you news (though many of you likely are ahead of me on this) of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. So far, Intelligent Design proponents have put forth an extremely narrow, dogmatic proposal on how the universe must have come about… Read More »

Eqecat and Katrina

By | September 1, 2005

The Oakland Tribune had a story today on Eqecat, featuring a picture and interview with David F. Smith, the husband of a friend of mine from Biloxi. David has become quite familiar with Biloxi, so I’m sure he is well suited to help Eqecat develop their estimates of the total insured losses from Katrina. Eqecat… Read More »

Updates from Friends and Family

By | September 1, 2005

So far, all the friends I’ve directly or indirectly heard from made it through the hurricane relatively okay. Of course, it’s the ones I haven’t heard from that worry me. Due to the lack of electricity and the still unreliable landline and mobile phone networks, it’s hard to get the word out from even the… Read More »