Pictures from Gustav

Industrial Canal that was all over the news

Sand Mtn. truck in front of our hotel.

Visiting the Lower Ninth Ward

Palm Trees on Canal St. during Gustav

Thought I would post some of the pictures I took during our trip to New Orleans to cover Hurricane Gustav. If you watched any of the coverage you saw the water topping over the levees on the Industrial Canal. We went out there at night and then the next morning, and that one picture is from the drawbridge over the canal. We also went down to the Lower Ninth Ward, which is where the worst flooding took place during Katrina. During Katrina, the same levees on the Industrial Canal failed, but this time they held.

Hurricane Gustav

Carson and I went out into Hurricane Gustav Monday morning. Winds were about 70-80mph.

Brad and Geraldo

I'm in New Orleans. Geraldo is in New Orleans. Geraldo had a flat tire. Here is me and Geraldo and his flat tire.

Gustav, Here I Come!!

Guess where I'm headed this weekend? The Beach, but not for fun and games. I'm headed to the Gulf Coast as part of our stations coverage of Hurricane Gustav. I'll do my best to update with pictures and videos from the coast. Be sure to come back often and check em out.

More Pictures From Talladega

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!!

Forrest and Damian

Entering the Tri-Oval

In case you were wondering, yes, I am a redneck. A Nascar-loving, Jeff Gordon-hating, Talladega-bound redneck. And oh, how I love it. My Dad got tickets to the Aaron's 499 and we loaded up Forrest and my nephew Damian and headed out. Supposed to rain, you say? Thunderstorms during the race, you say? Doesn't scare us. (BTW, poured at home, not a drop at the track.) My Lord, how the fans do love them some Dale, Jr. Except for one Matt Kenseth fan one row behind us, I think everyone else in our section was a Junior fan. Unfortunately, we you are rooting for the Bobby Labonte #43 car, you spend your day wondering when he will get caught up in a wreck. But it was a great day, Junior was near the front most of the day so everyone else was happy. Kids had fun, so I guess that is all that really matters. But next time, I want to work the race again so I can be in the pits, close to the action.

Great Smokey Mountains

General Hood, meet the General Lee

Yeah, I'm bad!

Snow on the mountains

Just got back from a quick trip to Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. It had been 10 years since the wife and I had been, and our kids had never been. So, we decided to load up the family, including the cat, and make our way north to the mountains of Tennessee.

One place we visited was the Movie and Television Show Car Museum, as you can see from the first two pictures. Lots of famous cars there, everything from the Beverly Hillbillies truck, to the Trans Am from "Smokey and The Bandit". George Barris created all these cars and he has this museum in Gatlinburg. Pretty cool place, but then I am a car freak.

Stayed in a nice little cabin up in the hills, went to Dixie Stampede, and just had a great ole time.

Beauty Queen, Well Almost

Saturday night was a new experience for me. My daughter was in the Miss Crossville pageant at the school. Now I grew up in a house full of boys, so my beauty pageant experience was a little thin. But look at her! We came in 2nd place, or, as they like to call it in the pageant world, First Alternate. Isn't she just beautiful! Good thing for us she takes after her Mom.

Thoughts of Spring

Sunset in Navarre Beach, Florida

I'm fed up with the cold weather. Fed up. Don't want any more. Spring has been teasing us the last couple of weeks, and for one I'm ready for it. I have this picture as the background on my computer at work and it got me to thinking about Florida and warm weather, and I decided that I'm ready. Enough of Winter, bring on Spring and Summer. Spring training is going on right now for baseball, so that must mean it's just around the corner. I need some sunshine in the worst way to get out of these doldrums.

Way to go Lions!!

Congratulations to the Crossville Lions girls basketball team, class 3-A State Champions!!

I just added some video of their reception back at the school after winning it all in Birmingham. The Lady Lions are the second team from Crossville to win a state title, along with the 1986 football team. By the way, as a great Crossvillian Kevin Harper pointed out to me, Crossville is now unbeaten when playing for a state championship!!

Way to go coach Peppers and all the girls!

Snow, Again

It's snowing again!! Yes, I know the last post about snow stayed up here for about a year, but I promise to keep up to date this time around. Check out the video I shot of snow falling this morning near Shiloh Farms outside of Albertville. This is the first time I've put video on the blog, so we'll see just how well it works. If this works, I'll try to start putting my video stories on the blog everyday, or at least when it's kind of interesting.

By the way, Go Crossville Lions!! The girls varsity basketball team will be playing for a state championship Thursday in Birmingham. It has been a while(1986) since little ole Crossville won a state championship in anything, so Go Lady Lions!!

Whoo Hooo! A New Update!!

This is a test. Just checking to see if anybody is still out there checking out this page. So, are you there? I've been trying the MySpace thing, and I think I'm getting out of it. I believe I just might go back to the blog thing. Oh, this is a picture of me at the Iron Bowl. Working hard, as you can see.