Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.12.08 | 1:15 PM ET
The forecasts are horrific. Sophia Dembling’s essay, Traveling While Texan, should give you more than enough reasons to lay off the place.
Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
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Sophie 09.14.08 | 12:00 AM ET
Ironically, I just read Isaac’s Storm last week, about the horrific storm that flattened Galveston in 1900. (It was written by Erik Larson, author of the very excellent The Devil in the White City.) The seawall that was built after that storm helped protect the island from that level of devastation, but Galveston took a bad hit.
I am sad to learn that the Balinese Room, a famous nightclub in the 1940s (Sinatra and Bob Hope were among the luminaries who visited) and recently revived as a rock club was destroyed. According to one account I read, it just collapsed like a house of cards.
I’m in Austin this weekend and we haven’t even had any rain.
Sophie 09.14.08 | 2:31 PM ET
Tasteless sign spotted in Austin today: Ike hit Tina harder than it hit Austin.