Storm preparations

[infrogmation]

Bah. I brought in the furniture & small acoutrements from my yard, and tied down things that needed such in the rain this afternoon, since there isn't likely to be any time when it isn't raining til after Isadore is gone. It'll probably be worse tomorrow.

I'm riding this one out-- looks like it'll be a category 1 Hurricane; I bug out for strong 3 or better (only had to do that twice, in '92 for Andrew and '98 for Georges).

The 19th & early 20th century house here in New Orleans were usually built on raised piers to keep them above floods. I find the ground level slab homes in some of the suburbs amazingly impractical; of course hundreds of them flood a couple times every decade.
In addition to being raised, my house is in an area that's higher ground; it's an old natural levee, which is why it was one of the earlier parts of uptown developed back in the 1830s. So some of the suburbs could be under 8 to 10 feet of water while I'm still high & dry.


And now as an added attraction, a Usenet post of mine from when I left town for Hurricane Georges 4 years ago.


From: froggy @ neosoft.com (Froggy)
Subject: Run Away!!
Date: 1998/09/27
Message-ID: <6um9h7$f0q$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1
Organization: Froggy's Hurricane Avoidance Agency
X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Sep 27 21:08:55 1998 GMT
Reply-To: froggy@neosoft.com
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tito, alt.religion.kibology, alt.politics.jaffo


Shame on Mr. Clinton for concocting this "Hurricane Georges" just to try to distract attention from his winky, where the attention of all conciencious citizens belongs!!

Okay, I admit it... I'm distracted, I'M DISTRACTED!!

I bugged out of town to one of the nail-holes in the Bible-Belt, high and dry and away from the big storm. It's usefull to remind myself that there are still places near New Orleans where the Supermarkets do carry beer, but you are not allowed to purchace it on Sundays. Also, the condoms are still kept behind the counter, and one must ask the intimidating old lady if one wishes to purchase any. Ah, longing for illegal alcohol and needing to screw up one's courage and harden one's resolve (IYKWIM)before trying to buy usefull latex products. It brings back my mid teens.

Since the weather is still clear here, I took an excursion to look at the local Indian mounds. Quite impressive. The Park has a Missisippian glyph as their logo. While I could make some educated guesses as to it's meaning from my knowledge of MesoAmerican and S.Western Indian iconography, I prefered to ask the park ranger/gatekeeper/postcard-seller the meaning of said logo. She told me, "Nobody knows. The Indians all disappeared mysteriously, and nobody know anything about them".
Periodendofdiscussion.
Presumably it is upsetting to the current inhabitants to contemplate that this area was once home to a vibrant culture with aspirations of civilization.

With 30 inches of rain predicted, the wisdom of "The Mound Builders" is demonstrated once again.

And I bet they let people drink on Sundays.


--Froggy In Exile

Comments

Good luck, Froggy!

[milena-shibush.livejournal.com]

I'll be thinking of you. I have the same hurricane policy: anything worse than a 3, I'm outta here. I weathered Andrew with some beer and m & m's and some really good luck (it was supposed to hit us square on, but dropped down to south Miami at the 11th hour). Let us know how you dry out.
Melissa

High and Dry

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

Oh, my dear frogness. I do hope you're staying high and dry. I'm in my little corner of the world, just me and my drop spindle. I stayed up until 2am spinning yarn last night. Other than that, everything's OK. Flooding on the street has gone down around here, and I'm weathering the remnants of Isidore with my stash of SnowFlake bars.

I want some sunshine and cooler, drier air. I want some Oktoberfest pretzels and some Oktoberfest beer.

Bring on October and the oom-pah-pah bands!