Storm preparations

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.
( Read more... )