HERE’S A ROUNDUP OF GULF COAST NEWS SOURCES. And, commenting on the TV coverage, reader Carlos Myers emails:

I’m starting to get bored with reporters giving us a “front row” seat when a hurricane makes landfall. It was impressive the first couple of times they did it, but it is now old hat and all I can say when I look at the sheer silliness of the melodrama is, “Do we really need this kind of reporting and is their play-by-play reporting really newsworthy?”

No, and no, in my opinion.