I came across this article today while doing a bit of digging. Its an old Popular Mechanics article detailing the problems of New Orleans should it ever encounter a high category hurricane like Katrina. Basically, they’re screwed. The highest point in the city is 6 feet above sea level. The city is essentially a bowl just waiting to be filled with water. Apparently this is one reason why they limit the number of ground burials for the area.

Anyway the article goes on to talk about some early detection system, but seriously as you can see here Katrina totally owned New Orleans.

Katrina: 1
New Orleans: 0

I’m upset I only just found out about this. Today is Grilled Cheese Day on the Blogosphere.

Slashfood has posted a ton of Grilled Cheesey goodness and I believe quite a number of blogs have posted different recipes for grilled cheeses. Enjoy!

In France, its called Le Grilled Cheese

For background you should really Part 1 and Part 2 of this story before continuing to read this post.

Not much of an update to our story this week.

It seems our poor couple have put up flyers for their ‘missing’ dog.

As the story continues to rage on, I have requested some sort of proof of this story either in the form of a copy of the police report or one of the flyers the couple have started hanging around town. Correct me if I am wrong, but it was mentioned that this all did not actually take place in Boston, but rather in Chicago. That might have been my fault because I assumed it was Boston. Anyway, I’ll keep everyone posted.

When last we left our protagonist, the dog she was supposed to dog-sit died, got stuffed in a suitcase, and was thereafter stolen.

The girl told all her friends the events that led up to her current situation. When she told her boyfriend, he thought she should call the cops. So this apparently mindless girl called the cops and reported a missing piece of luggage. The officer was taking a description over the phone. He got the color and style of the bag and then asked what the bag contained. She decided to change the imaginary contents of the bag to school books and claimed that it was ripped out of her hands on the subway. The cop took all this down and told her he’d let her know if anything came up.

Meanwhile, the couple who owned the dog, returned from their trip. Wondering what happened to their dog, the girl told them that it got loose and ran off.

Two days later, the couple received a call from the police. They were not home, but the policeman left a message saying that they still hadn’t found her luggage, but were still looking for it. Apparently this girl, left the couple’s house phone number with the police if they had any updates for her.

When the couple questioned the girl about it, she replied repeating the story that she had told the police about the luggage and the books, saying that she had a number of books that were too big to carry or put in her bag, so she borrowed their suitcase, which then got stolen on the subway.

End Part Two.

Its still in question if the couple actually believe this girl. We all eagerly await any updates on this story as they break. I will find out if anything else has happened since last time on Thursday.