Here We Go Again.

Three years ago this morning I sat in church in jeans, a tee shirt, and flip-flops, which I would NEVER wear to church under normal circumstances. I had taken an hour's break from moving lawn furniture inside, mounting plywood, and locking the bikes in the storage room. Katrina would make landfall in less than 24 hours.

The latest 5-day forecast for Gustav shows him passing just west of Baton Rouge at 2 PM Tuesday. (WUnderground.com is the coolest weather website ever.) At least it'll be daytime, and at least we'll have a weekend to prepare. Jeaux will probably have to be at the hospital for the duration of the storm. Nurses don't fall into that "nonessential personnel" cateogry that always gets to stay home for storms. School will, in all likelihood, be cancelled, and the entire population of New Orleans will head this way. Of course "entire population of New Orleans" is a much smaller number than it was in 2005, right?

There are no available hotel rooms in town since LSU plays the season opener in Tiger Stadium Saturday. The governor has prepped us for contraflow and evacuation. my friend Lauryn is clearing out her guest room. Jeaux has packed up all the ice from the ice maker so that we'll have some reserve ice if we need it.

Yuck.