Unlovely Rita

Remember "Lovely Rita" from The Beatles Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?

"Lovely Rita meter maid nothing can come between us When it gets dark I tow your heart away
Standing by a parking meter when I caught a glimpse of Rita"

Unfortunately Hurricane Rita will be anything but lovely. Like her sister Katrina, she has already breached some levees in New Orleans and will likely flood portions of Texas. Rita's already being blamed for the death of 24 elderly evacuees, during the chaotic mass evacuation. Although the storm has been downgraded to a Category 3, Katrina's vivid memories are causing Gulf Coast Texans to take Rita seriously. Galveston, which is directly in Rita's line of fire was the site of 6000 deaths during an unnamed storm in the year 1900.

"Moving to Montana soon...gonna be a dennil floss tycoon...!!!"

Just a nod to the old Frank Zappa song, "Montana" from the "Overnight Sensation" album. Actually I'm moving to Tucson, Arizona. Taking a national announcer gig at the radio network's headquarters. These radio stations can be heard from the frozen tundra of Michigan down to the Texas/Mexican border. Since I won't have to do the morning show until next year I can finally get several months of extra sleep. Cool! Here is a picture I snapped at a little roadside park in Tucson called Tohono Chul.

"Ophelia...please don't darken my door"

After being out in Tucson, AZ for a week, I'm finally back with a nod to The Band and their classic rock favorite "Ophelia". We've just witnessed the most devastaing storm in U.S. history, now we're flirting with Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ophelia. Yesterday she was upgraded to hurricane status, today she's classified as a tropical storm. We can't breathe a sigh of relief yet, because experts agree that Ophelia could loop back and make landfall in Florida, Georgia or the Carolinas. The good news is Ophelia is not projected to enter the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf Coast states have seen enough death and destruction to last a lifetime. Stay tuned for another update soon!