I’m feeling much better, now that I’ve polished off the last of the cherry pie and had a drive around Katy. It’s wondrous what a home-made pie can do for the soul! Best thing I can think of for Hurricane Anxiety!
The drive around Katy was interesting. It’s an absolute zoo out there on the roads, folks! Even the staff at the pet store was coming apart at the seams. (We were there for a scheduled puppy training class, that got cancelled – seems the instructor is evacuating from the Galveston area tonight.)
One of the things that struck me during my drive was that I saw only one window boarded. But every supply store for miles around is completely sold out of plywood. So where is it? Unless I start seeing windows being covered tomorrow, I’m just going to assume folks are planning to dine on plywood if their food runs out.
The gas situation is a joke, too. Mason Road (a main N-S artery) was bumper to bumper for miles. It wasn’t until I’d crawled my way through 5 or 6 intersections that I found the source… the right lane was a gas line for one of the few open stations.
All in all, though, I’m feeling better about things. Not because I don’t think we’re gonna have a storm, cuz we definitely are. Certainly not because everybody’s calmly going about their normal routines, cuz they’re not. Guess it must be that cherry pie workin’ on me.
I Recommend Cherry Pie
Leave a Reply
Read Next
In… and out…. Breathe, Polimom…. relax…. lol – sort of. If anyone had asked me a week ago whether Katy was a good place to be (in this area) for a hurricane, I’d have said yes. I may even have …
At last, we have eyes into the rest of Algiers. We’ve had quite a few comments and posts reporting from there, and I just had a long phone conversation with someone in New Aurora. The scenes described today have been …
Uncertainty. ‘Non-answers’. Evasions. Silence. Few things are harder on the human spirit than having no clear path forward, and people can’t live forever in limbo. Information vacuums give rise to many problems, as recent events have demonstrated with a vengeance. …
Before I write this, I want to say â clearly â that I have enormous admiration and respect for Eugene Robinson, the author of this morningâs Washington Post op-ed, “What Rice Can’t See”. He is a talented and thoughtful writer, …
Hi Polimom. How bizarre that I randomly found your blog and am here in Biloxi, MS, four weeks post-Katrina. We’re watching Rita as closely as the rest of the Gulf Coast, and my fingers are crossed it will not cause the devastation Katrina has. My goodness, no one really expected another big one! And boom, out of no where. My thoughts are with you over there in Katy.