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Just a few miles up the road, Keith Luke, 54, stood atop his boat, Miss Brandy. He built the boat 15 year ago and named it after his daughter, who is now 36 years old. Luke is portly, with a thick beard, and on this afternoon wore a faded red t-shirt with a kind of self-made v-neck. A bit of hair poked out. Despite the warnings about Gustav, Luke holed himself up in Miss Brandy, along with his deckhand, Charlie. "Things was bad," Luke says of Gustav. "We had a lot of wind...
...Lieberman's weird, winding road to St. Paul is a story for another day, but a lot of it comes down to the fact that he and John McCain believed the U.S. should do more in Iraq at a time when most of America - and nearly all of the Congressional Democrats - wanted to get out. Lieberman tried to use his credibility as a former standard-bearer for the other party as a lever to peel McCain free of the Bush legacy. After dozens of speeches last week in Denver evoking "Bush-McCain," Lieberman offered this: "Trust me: God only made...
...streets had minor flooding. Driving was still treacherous on Monday afternoon with huge tree trunks blocking roadways and traffic lights not functioning. One of the major Baton Rouge hospitals, Our Lady of Lake, had to operate on generator power. "Please stay indoors and please don't be on the road if you don't need to be," Jindal warned residents during an early afternoon news briefing. By evening, power had not yet been restored to much of the city. On Tuesday, Jindal said about 1.4 million households in the state remain without electricity...
...Back inside: "How many of you've seen the Discovery Channel Deadliest Catch? Ice Road Truckers?" Cheer. "We're getting famous up here!" Huge cheer...
...governor's house is actually somewhat modest: a two-story wood shingled building with a couple hundred meters of road leading up to it. There are a few aging trucks parked on the grass alongside the road, alongside a couple trailers and a shack. There's a portable basketball hoop in the driveway. You can tell it's the governor's home because they've tacked a moose antler with PALIN painted on it to a tree out front...