CNN reports that Isaac is still causing trouble in Louisiana:

Earlier in the day, the state’s office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness posted on Twitter that “Pearl River Lock No. 2 is in danger of failing” and urged “anyone living in the mandatory evacuation area to leave immediately.” St. Tammany Parish warned on its website at 1:15 p.m. that “failure of Lock 2 is imminent!”

The lock is on a man-made canal off the Pearl River.

If they relieve the pressure and save the lock they can minimize the flooding below it, but the Pearl River is set to flood anyway, so more people are going to watch their homes washed away.

Isaac has become a rain maker for Missouri and Illinois, and should bring rain to Indiana and Ohio later on. They can use it, so it hasn’t been a totally ‘evil’ storm, but the people downstream are still facing problems that will last until midweek, when the real recovery process can begin.

An additional thought: I wonder how long it will be until we start hearing people saying that their problems were caused by the Corps of Engineers repairing the New Orleans system.

So Zero’s minions sent me an e-mail to tell me that they have a ‘great tool’ that will allow people to register to vote on-line. Apparently they believe that the code they want me to embed will work everywhere, and they will get the hits from people using it to boost their numbers.

It doesn’t work that way in Florida, and given the state’s record with IT projects, even if it supposedly did, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone use it.

What you can get on-line is the state’s standard form for registration. They tell you that you can fill it out on-line, but you still have to download and print out the form, because you have to sign it, and you can’t do that on-line. Actually, I wouldn’t fill out anything at a site controlled by our fraudster-in-chief, because they will probably do something stupid with the data that is collected.

If you have a Florida drivers license or ID card, you can fill out the form, sign it, and then take it or mail it to your county supervisor of elections. You must register at least a month before an election.

When you sign the form you are acknowledging the following:

If the information on the application is not true, the applicant can be convicted of a felony of the third degree and fined up to $5,000 and/or imprisoned for up to 5 years.

I don’t have a problem with that except that it should be applied equally to the information provided by the candidates for public office in the state. When they lie and get caught, they get to ‘correct and amend the form’ or simply ignore the facts and continue to lie.

Position: 20.2N 58.4W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northwest [305°] near 18 mph [30 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 65 mph [100 kph].
Wind Gusts: 80 mph [130 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 160 miles [260 km].
Minimum central pressure: 998 mb.

Currently about 310 miles [ 495 km] Northeast of the Leeward Islands.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 41.2N 41.8W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northeast [040°] near 29 mph [46 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 60 mph [ 95 kph].
Wind Gusts: 80 mph [130 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 105 miles [165 km].
Minimum central pressure: 999 mb ↑.

Currently about 675 miles [1090 km] East-Southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland.

Kirk will probably become a Post-Tropical Cyclone overnight.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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