still alive
Aug. 29th, 2005 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashThis is Peggy again, from a library computer in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I think the hurricane's passing over New Orleans right now - a little earlier, before we left, the news was suggesting it was really starting, that the people in the Dome were starting to see some of the roof peeling off... geeze. I hope I have a city to go back to. I was just starting to like being there!
I'm worried about my friends there and hoping they got out alright. I have some e-mail from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doctorpinkerton saying he took off, but I don't know what's up with Jennie and Jason, or my various other acquaintances I haven't seen for years. Nothing I can do, now, except... wait.
It'll probably be a few days before I can go back. Maybe longer. Depends on how it hits, how hard, how long power and water take to be restored.
Me, I think Katrina came buzzing up straight for New Orleans 'cause Nash Roberts retired. Nash was the Weather God. Every time a big storm came up, everyone would say it was coming to the city, but you'd turn to channel 4 and there was Nash saying that he thinks it's going to twitch this way and muss the city, and lo and behold it did. He quit his regular weatherman job, still doing consultancy: you knew a hurricane was serious when you'd see Nash and his old dry-erase board up there on 4. And it went the way he said it'd go. A couple years ago he quit doing even that. Weather god retired. And without his protection... one finally came, with nobody there to say "I think it's going to twist on over this way..." and make it stick.
Or at least that's what the myth-making part of my brain wants to believe.
geeze, I need to renew my domain, too. When I get back.
Edit: I think the storm's on it's way out of the city - on its way to beat up Mississippi. Seems a levee broke, with 3-8 feet of water in the Ninth Ward. No specific news about the area my mother lives in, although there was also "significant structural damage" to the city in general. The eyewall passed just east of the city, and I hope "the city" includes the eastern sprawl as well as New Orleans proper.
It'll probably be a couple days before we can even think of going home. I wish I knew anyone to visit in Arkansas while we wait! I want to go back home... but I'm afraid of what I'll find. I don't know when I'll next have net access. I e-mailed the folks at American Greetings a brief note to the effect of 'hi, I would've written earlier, really, but, um, HURRICANE' (but more coherent); now I just need to keep myself sane until we go back.
And thanks for all your well wishes while I was away the past few days, everyone. <3
Maybe I'll get some drawing done. Wasn't I thinking of working up a children's book?
I'm worried about my friends there and hoping they got out alright. I have some e-mail from
doctorpinkerton saying he took off, but I don't know what's up with Jennie and Jason, or my various other acquaintances I haven't seen for years. Nothing I can do, now, except... wait.It'll probably be a few days before I can go back. Maybe longer. Depends on how it hits, how hard, how long power and water take to be restored.
Me, I think Katrina came buzzing up straight for New Orleans 'cause Nash Roberts retired. Nash was the Weather God. Every time a big storm came up, everyone would say it was coming to the city, but you'd turn to channel 4 and there was Nash saying that he thinks it's going to twitch this way and muss the city, and lo and behold it did. He quit his regular weatherman job, still doing consultancy: you knew a hurricane was serious when you'd see Nash and his old dry-erase board up there on 4. And it went the way he said it'd go. A couple years ago he quit doing even that. Weather god retired. And without his protection... one finally came, with nobody there to say "I think it's going to twist on over this way..." and make it stick.
Or at least that's what the myth-making part of my brain wants to believe.
geeze, I need to renew my domain, too. When I get back.
Edit: I think the storm's on it's way out of the city - on its way to beat up Mississippi. Seems a levee broke, with 3-8 feet of water in the Ninth Ward. No specific news about the area my mother lives in, although there was also "significant structural damage" to the city in general. The eyewall passed just east of the city, and I hope "the city" includes the eastern sprawl as well as New Orleans proper.
It'll probably be a couple days before we can even think of going home. I wish I knew anyone to visit in Arkansas while we wait! I want to go back home... but I'm afraid of what I'll find. I don't know when I'll next have net access. I e-mailed the folks at American Greetings a brief note to the effect of 'hi, I would've written earlier, really, but, um, HURRICANE' (but more coherent); now I just need to keep myself sane until we go back.
And thanks for all your well wishes while I was away the past few days, everyone. <3
Maybe I'll get some drawing done. Wasn't I thinking of working up a children's book?