And five years, almost to the day, I left the Mississippi Coast. This past June found me and AB in a car on our way to Alabama.

And so this anniversary feels like it is no longer mine. I know where the Coast and New Orleans were at three months ago. Which is [...]

It’s like a sucker punch any time I see that swirling radar picture over the Gulf of Mexico.

I just tried to check the weather and got hit with it again. Some documentary they’re airing this week. They’re advertising it with a huge pop up ad that’s an image of the clouds circling around [...]

When I moved to Mississippi one of the first things I looked for was theatre. Any kind of theatre, where I could find people with similar interests, meet people in this place where everyone already knew each other, and perform. And what I found was an amazing network of community theatres all over the [...]

It’s a calm day here in the swamp. Unlike last year when I was waiting on another hurricane. Or the year before when I was working in the midst of the reconstruction in a building with no first floor. Or the year before that, when the idea of commemorating the storm was still so [...]

So plans change, and logic is applied over hysteria, and that means we’re staying. Folks, this is no Katrina. If you take a look at the radar pictures of Katrina, and then the pictures coming out of Gustav, well, they are hardly similar. The predicted landing for this one is 100 miles away, instead [...]

Three years and I’m still here. And planning to leave in the face of another storm. I know what to do now. I know about mandatory evacuations, and contraflow traffic, and preparedness, and what you need to have on hand, and what, exactly, the threat can be. But it doesn’t worry me any less.

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Two years ago today. How strange.

I remember being curled up on my mother-in-law’s couch, watching the 24 hour weather feed.

I remember AB started putting together his resume, because he was sure he was going to have to go find a job in Huntsville.

I remember scouring the sites with information about people [...]

I was in Barnes & Noble today, and I was looking through the picture books about Katrina. It felt like I got punched in the gut looking at all those pictures again.

In the airport on Friday I started talking to a lady with family in Bay St. Louis, and she made the comment [...]

OK, we have cable. Everything is officially back to normal in our house. We even have a DVR that I don’t know how to use. Things that are beautiful about today – Kingdom of Loathing!

The house has turned into a refugee camp. Granted, it’s pretty much just karmic retribution for our having gotten off so lightly from the storm, so I’m not really complaining. And the constant attention that six men in one house require, certainly keep me busy.

AB’s friend from north Alabama came down with [...]