Hurricane Gustav will make landfall in Louisiana tomorrow (Monday). I’ll say near Chauvin. This is bad news for Louisana and for New Orleans in particular. Thankfully, he weakened while crossing Cuba so it is unlikely that Gustav will be a Cat 4 storm when he comes ashore. However, his storm surge is likely to exceed Cat 3 standards on exactly the side that New Orleans will be in which case, the levees will fail. Sounds like a great Labor Day weekend.
Tropical Storm Hanna will annoy the Bahamas all week before becoming a Hurricane and heading for Savannah. But that is more than 5 days off an a lot can happen in the interim.
There is an area of disturbed weather that I believe is being referred to as 97L which is now West of the Cape Verde Islands. It has a high potential for developing into a storm of some kind. More as that develops.
Rock it! Tropical Storm Hanna is out in the Atlantic and she looks to become a Hurricane. For now she is no threat to anyone anytime soon. She isn’t forecast to come anywhere near land in the next five days. She does have an interesting western turn predicted by Tuesday but even then she will be days away from the US Coastline.
This is another image that is just so new that I can’t decide if I should include it in the show or not. Maybe this one instead of the one in the previous post . . . or in addition to . . . or not at all; I’m having an indecisive day.
I can’t decide if I am going to put this piece in the Starkville version of “Ides of the South” or not. I feel like it works with the rest of the show, but it is so new to me, and I haven’t had months to look at it and think about it . . . any opinions?
I created this image for a show entitled Hyphenated-American that is going to be up for a few days around September 4, in the atrium at Rainbow. The show is being put on by The Institute of Southern Jewish Life.
There is a good bit going on in the image, so I uploaded a slightly larger digital file, so if you check out the full-size version you should be able to read/see everything.
It seems that old Gustav has decided to skip the whole “tropical storm” thing and go straight for Hurricane status. He also has decided, it seems, not to visit key west. More importantly, Gustav is forecasted to become a major hurricane (read: category 3+). The water is warm and apparently there is very little shear. Right now, Gustav looks to be heading South of Cuba but that just means that he will end up in the middle of the gulf’s warm deep waters.
It may be too early to say it but Louisiana should start thinking about getting ready. Even though, historically, no hurricane in the month of August that was close to where Gustav is has ever hit Louisiana doesn’t mean that Gustav can’t do it now (but it is still an interesting fact and well worth keeping in mind). The GFDL, UKMET, and NAM all have Gustav heading toward that coast (the NOGAPS has him heading for the Yucatan). Still, it is a long way off; Gustav won’t threaten the US until next week.
A depression looks to turn into a tropical storm sometime in the next 24 hours. His name will be Gustav. And, right now he is expected to visit Haiti and then Cuba before sliding up Cuba’s northern coastline. 5 days hence is anyone’s guess but expect it to cruise through the Straights of Florida, threatening the Keys, and then into the warm water of the gulf where, unless conditions deteriorate, Gustav might very well become a hurricane.
Clarion Ledger article about VSA artbuds program that daniel johnson and I helped start, and in which Jerri participated (and is quoted in the article).
Another Clarion Ledger article, but this one is about Storytellers Ball and they use my artwork, which was awarded “honorable mention.” Oddly enough, last night while I wandered through the gallery I heard an older gentleman talking to my artwork, he said, “well Mr. Adkins, I wouldn’t have given you an award.” He then removed his glasses and continued on through the gallery. The JFP also has a gallery of photos from the awards ceremony.
And although this is out of date, I’ll put a link to the JFP’s review of my exhibit too.
I just shot some new products for the guild’s new website, mscraftsmensguild.org (which isn’t up yet as I write this, but the new version should be live next week). Continue reading ‘Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi Images’
A little over a week ago I went down to Hattiesburg to create some ad shots for the school system. It was a fun little shoot, but despite starting at 7 am it was hot. Which worked out for the shot of the power-lifter . . . otherwise it just made it feel more like work. Continue reading ‘Hattiesburg Public School Sports’
