Month: December, 2007

let’s finish this up

21 December, 2007 (07:50) | work | No comments

it feels like i need to finish this storm stuff before i can move to other things. so, i offer one last picture of clean up.

Lovelle in PDN

17 December, 2007 (07:34) | Lovelle | No comments

Lovelle is featured in the December’s issue of PDN. Thanks, David.
Picture Story: A Dying Subject Has Her Say
December 02, 2007
By David Walker
On September 28, a 62-year-old cancer patient named Lovelle Svart threw a goodbye party for herself, and then drank a lethal cocktail she had obtained under Oregon’s doctor-assisted suicide law. She died several […]

The sad tale of Mustard the bunny

16 December, 2007 (09:30) | work | No comments

That title sounds like an XTC song or something.
On Tuesday, Richard allowed me to come along and check on his home for the first time since the storm. For the most part his house survived, but the garage and out buildings were pretty beat up.

“We better go check on my bunnies” he says. We slog […]

Wilson River RV park

14 December, 2007 (07:33) | work | No comments

back to work.
For the most part, the Wilson River RV park was destroyed by the storm. Police evacuated people from the park before the waters got too high. No people were killed, but many homes were swept away by the rushing water despite efforts to save them all. This first picture is from late […]

the whale hunt

11 December, 2007 (07:43) | other good stuff | No comments

I need a break from slogging through storm stories and wanted to point out an amazing website. You all might have seen it somewhere already - it is traveling around quickly. A coworker sent me an email about it yesterday and I see this morning that it’s on the Mediastorm blog. It is called The […]

many regrets

10 December, 2007 (09:32) | work | 3 comments

again, a regret. this feels almost like going to confession.
Towards the end of Monday, we returned to the shelter. I had been on a mini damage tour and spent a few hours trying to to get pictures back to the paper. Cell service was almost non-existent so it took about 2 hours to send 4 […]