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Hurricane Gustav is expected to make landfall near us at one in the morning on Monday; it is expected to be a category 3 hurricane by that time.
It looks like Carl may not be going to Dragon*Con after all, because we may all have to evacuate. I wouldn't be so worried about it if the repairs to the flood gates and canal breeches weren't so questionable, but the fact is that many of them were "repaired" completely inadequately (newspaper is not known for its water tight properties!). Having Hurricane Gustav bearing down on us is depressing and more than a little scary, but we'll get through it by just doing whatever we need to do. I would probably still stay for a little category 1 or 2, but when you get beyond that things really become very dangerous, rather than just potentially dangerous.
I was going to finish the weaving-in of the ends of my Doug's Doctor Who scarf so I could send it up to Dragon*Con with Carl, but it looks like I'll be getting together our evacuation necessities instead; if Katrina taught us nothing else, she taught us what really is necessary when it comes to evacuating, but I'm not enjoying the possibility that we could lose all our possessions and home all over again. If it comes to that, we do, thank goodness, have good insurance.
I'm going to evacuate with as many of our baby gifts, at least the bigger ticket items (like our co-sleeper, "infan-tainment" swing, stroller, and crib bedding) and the totally irreplaceable gifts (the hand knit sweater, socks, and fern frond hat), as I can fit in my trunk, because if the house does flood, I at least want someplace that is something like home for our baby while we go through Recovery Effort 2.0.
Don't get me wrong - I'm hoping it won't come to that! But I have to prepare for the worst, because it's just a part of the way I cope with the unknown. I'm also going to put my best gris-gris on it to keep us safe, but that won't stop me from being practical.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/143014.shtml?5day#contents
http://wwl.com/pages/2860701.php?contentType=4&contentId=2653306
It looks like Carl may not be going to Dragon*Con after all, because we may all have to evacuate. I wouldn't be so worried about it if the repairs to the flood gates and canal breeches weren't so questionable, but the fact is that many of them were "repaired" completely inadequately (newspaper is not known for its water tight properties!). Having Hurricane Gustav bearing down on us is depressing and more than a little scary, but we'll get through it by just doing whatever we need to do. I would probably still stay for a little category 1 or 2, but when you get beyond that things really become very dangerous, rather than just potentially dangerous.
I was going to finish the weaving-in of the ends of my Doug's Doctor Who scarf so I could send it up to Dragon*Con with Carl, but it looks like I'll be getting together our evacuation necessities instead; if Katrina taught us nothing else, she taught us what really is necessary when it comes to evacuating, but I'm not enjoying the possibility that we could lose all our possessions and home all over again. If it comes to that, we do, thank goodness, have good insurance.
I'm going to evacuate with as many of our baby gifts, at least the bigger ticket items (like our co-sleeper, "infan-tainment" swing, stroller, and crib bedding) and the totally irreplaceable gifts (the hand knit sweater, socks, and fern frond hat), as I can fit in my trunk, because if the house does flood, I at least want someplace that is something like home for our baby while we go through Recovery Effort 2.0.
Don't get me wrong - I'm hoping it won't come to that! But I have to prepare for the worst, because it's just a part of the way I cope with the unknown. I'm also going to put my best gris-gris on it to keep us safe, but that won't stop me from being practical.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/143014.shtml?5day#contents
http://wwl.com/pages/2860701.php?contentType=4&contentId=2653306
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