We’ve been back an hour and it doesn’t seem like we’ve got many more ahead of us before we will hit the road again. It looks like the city will declare mandatory evacuation early (this time) and we want to be out before the traffic piles up… BUT… we can’t leave until we know that important life events, like the mandatory orientation for the kids’ new school and my interview with WLAE, are rescheduled. Paul is going to help his clients on the Northshore prepare for the storm on Friday, so the earliest we can leave is Friday night, anyway.
And if it’s headed toward Mobile, is that really where we want to evacuate? This is what we did last time, only to move on to Jacksonville when Katrina knocked the power out in Alabama and left us with only a static radio voice announcing the flooding of New Orleans. It really doesn’t matter where we go, just as long as we have internet so that Paul can continue to work.
We’re thinking that we should go back to the panhandle beaches. One storm already looped all around us there, surrounding us with clouds and showers on all sides while we enjoyed clear blue pool days in the center. Maybe our luck will hold out a second time if we return?
Violet | 28-Aug-08 at 10:45 am | Permalink
Hey! Ann Arbor is pretty safe right now.
Christoph | 28-Aug-08 at 3:05 pm | Permalink
The food’s pretty good in Austin … and there’s football this weekend here at the U.
You’re making the right choice in evacuating, I think. I know it has to be a hell of a rough deal to have to pick up and move your family like that and I can’t imagine what it’s like to be constantly dodging these storms while trying to finish a PhD and live a life. Having said that, I think it’s the right move, as the models pretty much seem in agreement, barring a change somehow, that the central Gulf is going to take a hard lick from this thing. Plus Nola might get the right-front quadrant this time, and as you know that’s not a place you want to be ever in a hurricane. It’s scary to think about it and I hope it tracks far enough west to spare y’all serious effects and maybe bring some rain up into Central TX where it can be useful.
Aunt Deb | 31-Aug-08 at 6:12 am | Permalink
Glad to hear you have packed up. PA is pretty hurricane free.