Gustav’s timing is especially crazy-making for us here on the Gulf Coast. Just about everyone around here can remember exactly what they were doing three years ago today. We were on the road, headed north, our first and only evacuation so far.
Yes, it’s been three years, and we’re still trying to cut through the haze of mythology that’s enveloped those events.
But back to the present. It’s still too early for us to make the call. If we bug out, it will probably be in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Maybe Monday morning. Xy’s aunt in Shreveport has offered us lodging. I’ve only met her once, but she seems pretty cool. She started an AIDS hospice and some kind of teen drug court up there.
I’ve been planning our route.
The track for Gustav has not continued to trend eastward. The most recent estimates shift back west — not particularly what I wanted to see. I don’t like the latest track, not one bit. Hurricanes have a wet side and a dry side, and if Gustave goes west, we’ll be on the wet side. It’s still too early to call, but it’s also kind of hard to concentrate on anything else.
And then there’s this other system forming out there in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Hanna. Ray pointed out this rather alarming wind probability map:
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I know you will, but play it safe man! You have more than just you and XY to think about now.
Shreveport is cool and all, but I betcha it ain’t Randy “Biscuit” Turner yard sale weekend there like it is in Austin. Barton Springs beckons…
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:285396
There is a lot of blame to go around for the last disaster: why the levees failed, why people weren’t evacuated according to the city’s own published plans, the poor response, etc. I know a lot of people would love to blame one side or the other, but the blood is on the hands of people from city, parish, state, and federal levels–no matter what “jersey” they wear.
I would love to see an 8/29 Commission. There are too many guilty people, though, who will never let this happen. “Sunshine” isn’t exactly part of the political culture there (nor in DC, for that matter).