Gustav is headed a little away from a direct hit on New Orleans and hasn’t actually been classified a hurricane even but Tulane decided today to close its campus and hospital till Thursday next week to give students a chance to evacuate.
The New York Times piece from Dowd is worth reading: August 20, 2008 OP-ED COLUMNIST Two Against The One By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON In the dead of night in a small hideaway office in the deserted Capitol, a clandestine meeting takes place between two senators with one goal. They grin at each other as they lift their celebratory shots of brutally cold Stolichnaya. “Our toast to The One,” they say in unison, “is that he’s…
Last night at dinner, we were talking about losing things and losing interest in things. I was telling about how when I left my first husband I was living in an apartment on General Pershing uptown and I had put all the precious dishes and serving ware that I had collected or received through our five year marriage into cabinets over the sink. I came home one day to find that the cabinets had fallen…
As the bayou has gone down, with boats hanging from the iron rings, people have jumped down into the banks and been beach combing, or bayou combing. It’s eerie to see the water level so low especially with the impending doom that Gustav has brought. Yesterday afternoon, the neighbor kids found a bunch of bones and bleached them out and laid them all out on a towel to inspect. The little boy said, “Ms. Rachel,…
Act III – Scene 1 Mother calls and says she woke up on the floor and couldn’t stand up for an hour. [This raises more questions than might be answered in one daughter’s lifetime.]
Act II – Scene 1 Loretta Lynn has a song entitled God Makes No Mistakes. I went to say goodbye today to a little girl who has infiltrated our hearts and is leaving much too soon. Is this really happening?
Act I – Scene 1 The LaLa Everything is in its place at the LaLa. T’s found her spaces while minimally impacting mine. Books are on shelves. Clothes are in drawers. Toiletries are in the bathroom. Act I – Scene 2 New Orleans Knock, knock Who’s there? Gustav Gustav who? Are we going to evacuate? No. Plan A Plan B Plan C Act I – Scene 3 Pan the bayou The water level down about…
The doorbell just rang and someone was asking me what the heck is going on with the bayou – “I’ve never seen it so low!” – I told them the Sewerage and Water Board had lowered the level in the bayou by opening the locks to prevent it from spilling over due to the heavy rains we’ve had and are expected to have because of Fay. It’s been raining here every day and day before…