Pajamation

It’s now Saturday night…

and we only lost power for about 5 minutes during the night. With all the hoopla surrounding this storm and how hellish it was for people to leave the city I have a hard time believing anyone will choose to leave next time a massive storm comes knocking.

My brother-in-law…

and I went for a bit of a drive about 8pm as the sky became rather black to the south. We headed over the freeway and stopped right in the middle I-45 on the overpass. Not a car in sight and rather eerie.

Goodbye…

East Texas and western Louisiana.

Now, back in the comfort…

of my own house I believe I’m ready for the storm – though it certainly appears it will continue to move to the east.

Forget this nonsense…

I’m driving back to my house. I don’t exactly feel like waiting on the freeway for 24 hours to go absolutely nowhere.

Watching the freeways...

backed up for 100 miles from the comfort of a couch while others are sweating to death (literally) is a bit bizarre.

Made it to work...

tonight around 7:45; tore the department down (all items under 25 lbs. moved to away from massive windows; and headed to co-workers house for night.

Well, I'm attempting...

to go to work today but the FIVE-HOUR freeway backup due to evacuations is insane. Hopefully, I can get there at some point. Oh yeah, we’re in the process of a mass exodus so we can avoid being pummeled by Hurricane Rita, and yes, my house is in a mandatory evacuation zone.

Hurricane Rita...

looks to be headed directly towards the Gulf of Mexico. If everything goes accordingly the Texas coast could be slammed with a big one!

Yep. New Orleans...

got it and got it bad. Now is there a reason why the response time is so incredibly tardy? I fail to see how anyone, regardless of party lines, can support/excuse/justify our government's, on all levels, lack of response.