I was checking the weather and noted this:
Life after Katrina is different in so many ways. This isn’t even a storm, it’s a tropical wave, and yet I’m already watching it and planning certain things around it. When I go grocery shopping, for example, I’ll refrain from buying a lot of meat for the freezer, and get more canned goods. It’s better to go to the store three or four times a week than have another freezer full of maggoty, smelly meat. So we plan ahead to have less in the freezer and more in the bank account in the event of an evacuation.
Although we have been in the 2006 hurricane season for a while, things never really seem to get busy until August. As it stands locally, nobody seems to know what’s going on, the Corps of Engineers can’t be trusted here or anywhere else, and Blanco and Chertoff are playing hot potato.
I’m not ready to give up on my home town yet, but I can understand and empathize with those who have. At times, it feels quite hopeless.
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