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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Tuesday August 30, 2005
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KATRINA: What a name and what a reputation! She will go down in history and
I am sure the name will be retired. That is official policy with a hurricane
of this intensity. Like a super-star ball player having their jersey number
retired.

Even we in the weather community, who have lived and worked through all
kinds of historic weather events, will never, ever forget Miss Katrina.

And, I want to voice a complaint. I wish people would learn to not jump the
gun and report that this or that hurricane was not as bad as forecast. Won't
they ever learn that in the heat of battle, noone can tell for sure what is
going on in the middle of a major hurricane.

We on the outside looking in should be thankful. WKRG-TV, Mobile filmed an
interview with a gentleman and his young son on the Mississippi Coast. The
husband had desperately hung onto his wife trying to keep her from being
swept away in rushing flood water. She slipped away. A wife and mother gone
forever. The interview simply makes one want to cry. For the rest of my
life, if I ever want to complain, I am going to flashback to that image and
snap back to reality. And, while on my soapbox, I sure hope that WWL Radio,
AM 870 gets a national award. When I finally got in bed at 2 this morning, I
turned on WWL and the coverage and service to the community is awesome. I
have been listening since I was a kid.

I guess I should discuss local weather. It is definitely on the upswing and
that is good news. It will help recovery efforts in Mobile and Gulf Shores
but also inland.

I asked a friend in the nursery business once to come up with an estimate of
how many trees are in Alabama. I can't remember if his final answer was one
billion or three billion. I have been wondering how many of those were
uprooted in the last 24 hours. I feel sure it is in the thousands.

Here in Central Alabama, we could see just a few showers later this
afternoon and tonight. After that, it looks like a nice stretch of dry
weather on through the weekend. Most days will feature mostly sunshine and
high temperatures will not be that bad. Especially when we see the great
discomfort in the heavy damage areas with no air conditioning, no water and
no city services.

FINAL THOUGHTS: Bill Murray and Brian Peters can't be human. They were
mostly "sleepless at the seasside at the coast during Katrina.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Little Miss Molly and I were delighted on our
early morning walk to see that the Old Crow Motel survived last night's
extended high winds. The OCM is the tallest "high rise" on our walking
track. But decay has sent in at the roots and one of these days it will come
crashing down. We pause there every morning and admire its stark beauty
backlighted against the rising sun. I have a lot of making up to do with
Molly. Ignored her for two days. But, life goes on.

James Spann/J.B. Elliott

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TONIGHT
Partly cloudy. Only a few showers.
Morning Low 69
WIND: W 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 69 Afternoon High 90
WIND: NW 6-12

THURSDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 91
WIND: N 5-10

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 90
WIND: NE 5-10

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 88
WIND: N 5-10

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