Dangerous weather in Alabama, was in Arkansas & Tennessee last night

There is a tornado warning until 8 AM for Cleburne County, Alabama, 60 miles from here. There have also been some tornado warnings for extreme northern and northwestern Georgia, but those are gone now...not sure if this is the end of the bad weather or simply a lull. These are the same storms that hit Nashville, Tennessee last night and left at least 40 people dead, and disrupted the counting of the votes for the primaries. Although the storm was bad, CNN's graphics in HD look really cool I must admit.

So Huckabee won the South, but McCain still seems to be in control of the race. There is no frontrunner on the Dem side. Upcoming is Kansas, Washington & Louisiana on Saturday and DC, Maryland & Virginia next tuesday on the Republican side. For the Democrats, it's Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington & the Virgin Islands on Saturday, Maine on Sunday, and DC, Maryland & Virginia next Tuesday.

Updates on weather when they happen.

Finally, now that it's Ash Wednesday, I leave you with the end of Mardi Gras: 1) The meeting of the Courts; and 2) the closing of Bourbon Street at midnight on Mardi Gras night. Picture courtesy of the New Orleans Times-Picayune: here.

Happy Lundi Gras!

It's the 2nd to last day of the Mardi Gras season, and presumably most of the tourists have left or are leaving New Orleans, leaving the locals to have their fun. Temperatures there should be around 80 today and tomorrow there (and in the high 60's or early 70's here!).

This afternoon at 6 PM CST, Rex, his Majesty, King of Mardi Gras, will take over the city and the Mayor will hand the keys to the city over to him at Spanish Plaza when he comes in on boat.

The Super Bowl was pretty good last night, but the commercials I thought were awful. Nothing original or new...maybe they're out of ideas?? The "Rocky" Clydesdale horse was the best though. And who would have though the Giants could pull off the colossal upset?

Tomorrow is voting day here in Georgia. Go Romney (of course I'm totally okay with McCain).

Mardi Gras Friday!

Today is the "Greasing of the Poles" at the Royal Sonesta...meaning that the Sonesta, at the corner of Bourbon & Bienville in the heart of the French Quarter, makes a big production of taking a well dressed hotel employee with a jar of Vaseline, and having another employee literally grease the poles so that revelers won't climb up those poles to get up on the balconies, where high-paying guests are enjoying the "views". It's only partially for security now-a-days, and it's almost more a Mardi Gras tradition, taking place at 10 AM on Mardi Gras Friday every year.