Thank you for your willingness to serve my friend. Let's pray for safety for you, and that you will be where you are needed when you are needed.I'm headed down there right now for disaster relief (Search & Rescue).
Hopefully we'll do some good deeds.
I'm always willing to serve. Garcia (Lady Zig) is coming as well, as she's an ER doctor (doctorate in Emergency Medicine).Thank you for your willingness to serve my friend. Let's pray for safety for you, and that you will be where you are needed when you are needed.
My immediate wish for you is a luxurious 4-course meal in an air conditioned Birmingham restaurant overlooking azure blue Alabama skies. Follow that up with a freebee upgrade to your hotel's presidential suite and a late-night pizza. Oh, and big thick terry cloth robes and slippers. And mints on your pillows.Hey, all,
I am back and have passed through changes. The power went out at 4 pm on Sunday, and so I had no Internet or light aside from flashlights and LED lanterns. I tuned my battery radio to WWL. Sunday night was not too hot, as I'd been running the A/C on high. Moaning winds kept me awake for a long time. I woke to pitch darkness and much lower winds, and stumbled around making a breakfast of cheese, lunch meat, and saltines. Which was pretty much my feed until this morning, Tuesday. Oh, Miss Linda brought over some canned Beefaroni, which we ate cold, and we sat outside for a good part of Monday afternoon. It wasn't cool, but it was better than inside.
We were waiting to hear that the I-10 East would be open, and we did on Monday p.m. So this morning we loaded up the big Buick with suitcases and cats, and ran 6 hours up to Birmingham, AL. We're going out to eat in a little while. Thanks to those of you who are headed down there for disaster relief.
Very happy to see this post, glad you're okay.Hey, all,
I am back and have passed through changes. The power went out at 4 pm on Sunday, and so I had no Internet or light aside from flashlights and LED lanterns. I tuned my battery radio to WWL. Sunday night was not too hot, as I'd been running the A/C on high. Moaning winds kept me awake for a long time. I woke to pitch darkness and much lower winds, and stumbled around making a breakfast of cheese, lunch meat, and saltines. Which was pretty much my feed until this morning, Tuesday. Oh, Miss Linda brought over some canned Beefaroni, which we ate cold, and we sat outside for a good part of Monday afternoon. It wasn't cool, but it was better than inside.
We were waiting to hear that the I-10 East would be open, and we did on Monday p.m. So this morning we loaded up the big Buick with suitcases and cats, and ran 6 hours up to Birmingham, AL. We're going out to eat in a little while. Thanks to those of you who are headed down there for disaster relief.
After most of my life here, I am so ready to flee this city and this state, I can't tell you. I want drier conditions, 4 seasons, roads that are actually paved, inhabitants who don't yammer about "the food and the music" and are not constantly focused on the next party or the next crawfish boil * . . . and no more hurricanes.So. Louisiana is definitely a difficult place to live but it's also the most wonderful. Maybe it's having lived in California for 50 years with the constant threat of earthquakes, but I appreciate that hurricanes are able to be monitored and prepared for. I went to Birmingham for this one but I'm very anxious to get home to New Orleans tomorrow. I could never live anywhere else.
At least you have good beer.Yip that would be spring time