September 14, 2003
Hurricane Isabel
I really hate to see anyone have to suffer through the nightmare that hurricanes can bring, but I have to selfishly say that I'm SO glad this hurricane isn't headed for the Gulf Coast. We are seriously underprepared for something of that magnitude. When I was in law school we had flooding from a tropical storm -- and it didn't even hit us! The storm hit Houston (a five hour drive west of here) and we had so much water in the streets that I walked home from campus in water up to my upper thighs. New Orleanians, being as goofy as they are, made the best of it, though. My next door neighbors rowed their canoe down the street and the convenience store a few blocks away was still selling beer by pushing the beer through windows at the top of the store, since they couldn't open their front door.
Posted by Kitty at September 14, 2003 02:12 PM
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