Evacuation Day

I've never been anywhere where hurricane tracking mattered to me, but today has been a different story. I know more about how hurricanes work, which side of them you would rather be on and what they do to predict their path than I ever thought necessary. Everyone here is making plans to get out of its way and we are too. We'll be leaving Slidell tomorrow morning around 7:30 and would like to head due north, but we need to return the pop-up trailer that we borrowed in Marshal, TX before we go home. If the storm acts the way they are predicting we should be done with that before any serious weather hits. However, we are expecting to find plenty of traffic along our way, which might slow us down. There is even uncertainty about whether we can even travel West as far as Marshall since it puts us near the path of the storm and an evacuation area. I'll try to keep my blog up to date as we travel tomorrow.

If all that goes well, we will shoot for Blake and Kim's house to spend Saturday night there and then continue on home on Sunday. I am definitely ready to see Christa.

I've been out cleaning flood damaged houses and have some stories to tell you about that. Many of them involve rank oders which I will need to describe in detail, so don't read my next few posts with a snack :)