Oh Goodie.... Another Storm

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to New Orleans.... and I guess the mayor of that city thought it was safe, because he announced that residents could go back into the city if they wanted to. And so they did, creating traffic jams on the roads leading into The Big Easy.

Mother Nature, however, vetoed the mayor's suggestion. Now that the next hurricane is heading towards the Gulf states, the mayor withdrew his "welcome back" to the people of his city. I guess they've had to turn around and find a high and dry spot again.

I've seen some homes in our area with plywood boards up against their windows. I think the people who put the boards up are those who've lived through bad storms before and had their windows damaged. We have those big sheets of plywood--- they're up in the rafters of the garage, left there from the previous owners. We've never used them.

If the storm seems to be gaining strength, I will go around the front and back yards tomorrow and take away all the decorative garden things that are sitting around. As my Dallas friend Bill said--- "Take away anything that could become a missle in the wind." (He knows all the cutesy little things I've got around the lawns and in the flower-beds. Enough "missles" to destroy every window in this house.)

Hard to believe that a hurricane could even be on the way...... the weather has been absolutely beautiful....... blue sky, bright and sunny, and broiling hot. Typical September weather for here. Hopefully, Hurricane Rita will blow herself out to sea. Or at least, blow herself away from New Orleans and Galveston.