Jim: That has been my experience with other hurricanes.. Soon as it passes, and the barometer starts to rise again (plus I guess the insects are all stirred up cause of the rain/wind etc), the fish DO bite better, Chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:59 AM Subject: RE: [VFB] Mark Delaney...Round And Round She Goes..... > Glad to hear that it appears both you and Chuck will be OK. > Nasty storm there, for sure. > Take care. Maybe the fishing will really pick up after Katrina passes. Sort > of like how the fishing improves after a rain storm - since this is a > massive storm, maybe the fishing will massively improve. :) > > Jim C > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Delaney > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 6:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VFB] Mark Delaney...Round And Round She Goes..... > > At the moment, Lake Charles has become the staging point for the > Entergy Company (main electric company along the Louisiana gulf coast) > workers getting ready for restoring electricity once the storm has > past. They are all being housed at Burton Coliseum, the large arena > where McNeese plays its basketball games. The civic center currently > has 1400 evacuees house din it, and of the 4000 hotel/motel in Lake > Charles, none are vacant and reports are that the nearest vacant hotel > rooms along the I-10 corridor are in San Antonio. Special needs > evacuees are being housed in the Girls gymn here on the McNeese > campus. > > In Lake Charles, the only effects so far are high humidity and > temperature (83 F at 5 am) from the moist gulf air being circulated in > here, with high cirrus clouds appearing in bands. > > Our local news managed to get an e-mail connection for a while with a > relative of a former employee in Chalmette (suburb of New Orleans) for > a while (he had to stay because his parents couldn't evacuate due to > health problems) and he was reporting the roof being damaged, and > seeing a fence ripped out of the ground and some bricks of the house > actually being removed by the wind(at a corner?). This was well > before the eye was near, just after the eye had just made landfall at > 6 am (sooner than predicted). > > Last night i was tired and relocated Biloxi from Mississippi to > Alabama I believe, I was thinking of Mobile, AL when I did that. > Lots of extra people in Lake Charles at the moment. Probably the most > interesting thing is what people are doing with all the pets that came > with them...the Animal Control office relocated all it's current > residents to volunteers within the community and emptied out all their > cages so that evacuees pets could be kenneled. They als sent their > mobile kenneling facilities to the civic center, but they are full > now. > > -- > > "So much water, so little time!" > > > > http://chemprof.tripod.com/fishing.html > > > > > > > -- > "So much water, so little time!" > > http://chemprof.tripod.com/fishing.html
