Moot Thoughts & Musings

...watered the garden.

Well, after all the hype I expected to see the remains of a storm in New Orleans, but it was like nothing happened! No debris, not even a drop of rain. It was so surreal. The sky has been clear and blue all week. It's like the media had played a big joke on all of us. I don't mean to make light of those who really did get hit. It just was weird coming home to nothing. Oh well. I guess there was no way we could've predicted it. And I'm very thankful that everything here was fine. And the city can go on rockin' for another 200 years. See, I wasn't worried. Usually my gut feeling is right. We did the right thing by leaving with the knowledge we had, but I wasn't worried. And we enjoyed the company in Baton Rouge.

The evacuation traffic has been awful. I'm glad I saw alternate routes on the internet this morning. So we took US 61 home instead of I-10. They opened the lights and had police directing the traffic around intersections. It was still crowded, but we were moving, and I think we made it home faster.

And I'm getting some extra school work done, though not as much as I would've liked due to all the upheaval. I did get a conference submission in by yesterday's deadline, so I'm thankful for that. And I'm going to stay home tomorrow even though there's classes again, because I'm just not to going to deal with all the hideous traffic.

So there's our hurricane saga for the week. I found the picture on nola.com. It cracked me up...it's SO New Orleans.