Tropical Storm Lee

We let Hurricane Irene visit the east coast quilting friends and now they have reciprocated by sending us Lee.  Lee is a rain event.  That means we will have rain.  Not just rain, but RAIN.  Lots of it.

Yesterday, most Louisianians wandered around Walmart picking up bottled water and cold cuts thinking, when will we get the rain?  I thought they said rain would start at 10 o'clock in the morning?  Where is that rain?

We all said it, multiple times to those we encountered in the stores, in gas lines and in our lunch meetings.  Where is the rain?

Well, folks, here it is!  My rain gauge says just over 5 inches so far and it is only 8:30 on Saturday.  Dutch decided he was not going out.......ever!

DiNozzo and Hugeaux (yes, I am grand-dog sitting since the kids are in Dallas for the big LSU game there.  Football......I think.)  went out repeatedly at the drop of a hat for any reason at all.  Oh, look, the WIND!

Oh, look, I think the CAT is out!  Oh, look, RAIN!  And DiNozzo seems to have found something taking shelter under the deck.  So he is now whining and complaining at the back door saying he had plans to excavate the area to rescue the whatever critter from sure drowning.  Yeah, right.

So there is a growing mound of towels at the back door.  I told Frank we needed to begin recycling the towels.

(I keep finding cute things to add.  These birds were eating on the bird feeder when a rain band hit unexpectedly.  They took refuge on the fence under the carport.) 

This is our neighborhood canal, well here in Baton Rouge they call them "creeks" but in New Orleans we called them canals.  Gave you the feeling you were in some romantic spot like Venice.  Italy, I mean, not Venice, Louisiana, which is totally unromantic because the whole town smells like fish and salt water and has those huge horseflies.  The water is pretty high in the canal/creek.  We have a lull in the rain bands at the moment but they are promising more rain shortly.  I wonder where the water will go?  Of course, just as I got out it started pouring again!

And they are predicting 20 inches of rain!  TWENTY if you didn't read that correctly the first time.  Those northern people are complaining about their rain, we have 20 inches coming and not but a 20 second blurb about it on TV.



glen:  I guess in Louisiana we are supposed to be wet and get hurricanes..........

It is a bizzare world!

First the earthquake in Washington/New York/Virginia.  How weird is that?

Here I am watching the TV talking about the Hurricane Irene hitting New York City.  New York City?  WOW!

I wonder if they need any advice on how to ride out a hurricane from us Louisiana folks?  I'll bet they don't know how to board up their windows with plywood.  Or how to make sandwiches and save ice for the days before the lights go out.  Or to put water in the bathtubs so you will have water when the pumps go out or if the water gets fouled by sewerage. 

Or to have that axe in the attic just in case you have to climb into the attic to escape rising waters.  You can chop your way out of the roof.  That is what happened to a lot of Katrina people, they just didn't have their axes in the attic.  The ones who did, were the ones on the roof tops waiting to be rescued.

And I guess you need to have your bags ready to go and get all that loot you will need to survive from the stores, like those big screen TVs, the athletic shoes and the fur coats.  Oh, is that just New Orleans? 

glen