ARGH.

[rubykatewriting]

So Ike looks to be headed this way, or hereabouts to warrant school closing until Monday (GRR. We were ALREADY behind because of Labor Day), and here at the job, they're releasing all non-essential personnel (i.e., ME) by eleven. Luckily, we don't have to worry about the storm surge since we're far enough up 45, but those pesky winds and tornadoes, not to mention the flooding, could present a problem. I'm just glad I don't have to evacuate. My GOD am I glad. Three years later, and I can still remember that shit like it was yesterday (in fact, it was one of three topics we could write about in class on Tuesday; that's how ingrained it is in our collective conscious). I cannot imagine making that drive again with The Grandmother, three cats, and two dogs. It'd be like a really odd looking, way fucking cranky Noah's Ark in a Honda Element, and I would, by the end of it, find myself in the safe, loving arms of HCPC for having choked the life out of dear old Grandma because she just had to read EVERY FUCKING ROAD SIGN.

All kidding aside, I'm just hoping it turns out like Edouard: a lot of fuss over nothing. (Yes, there was damage and lots of wind and rain, but for the most part, all I had to worry about was, again, not killing my grandmother.)

Needless to say, very little work is or will be getting done today.

Comments

[ardor-patientia.livejournal.com]

I hope it's like our brush with Hanna up here. Just a crap rainy day followed by an absolutely gorgeous one.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

It's not looking good. That Ike is much like his namesake: he looks like an angry sumbitch who really wants to give us whallop.

[briary-flower.livejournal.com]

Jesus. I expend so much energy worrying about you guys, I can 't imagine what it would be like to live it. Seriously. When I watched Spike Lee's movie I kept imagining what it would have been like to try to evacuate with my great aunt and I always got as far as, "What if I had to evacuate my great aunt?" and that was it because it was unthinkable.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

During Rita, I still vividly remember Boo foaming at the mouth and puking up this white shit because he was getting so overheated. I couldn't leave the A/C on for long periods of time because I was just SITTING in traffic for so long, not moving at all, and I was on my own and absolutely flipping my shit because I thought I was going to lose him to some bullshit evac. I get angry just thinking about the mess of it all, and then when I think about the non-evacuation of NO before Katrina, it blooms into full-on rage. It was a one-two punch of complete mass-fuckery on the part of two major cities’ governments. Three years later and I'm still fucking boggled by it all.

[briary-flower.livejournal.com]

I just hope you're all okay down there. Thinking of you.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

So far, so good. The wind is something fierce and Ike hasn't even hit yet. Thanks for the good thoughts.