katrina

Texas gets all the glory, but it looks like the people in my home state are definitely pulling their weight [CNN article].

Arkansas took in more than 60,000 refugees after Katrina arrived—only Texas took in more. Gov. Mike Huckabee is out preaching the Golden Rule and reminding Arkansans of the help they receive after their nearly perennial ice storms and tornadoes.

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I’m leaving early for dragon*con 2005. I’ve been watching the news with mingled fascination and horror, and with the growing realization that I should probably get to Atlanta either before or after Hurricane Katrina hits our area. We are a multiple-hour-drive inland, practically in Tennessee for crying out loud, and we are still going to have tropical-storm-force winds from this one.Silly me. I don’t feel like driving in a tropical storm, and I’ve got a lot of stuff to do in Atlanta for tech, so I’m going to need to leave tomorrow morning.