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OK, @hystericempress, you're right, this town is fuckin' rad. Had two amazing meals, everyone's been super friendly, and even the sketchy street folk have largely just wanted to ask Peg about her tattoos and stuff. :) Saying we're from NOLA has gotten us a huge amount of sympathy and good wishes, too.
The most danger we are *currently* in is from breakfast, which was probably about 980% of my saturated fat RDA. Worth it.
Both the forecasts and the moods from home are fairly hopeful. The Army Corps is at least claiming they don't anticipate any major levee issues, and they seem to be armed for bear flood-wise. The local weather veterans aren't leaving town and aren't especially advising anyone else to—one even has a hunch Barry's gonna spin westward and dump everything on Baton Rough, which can handle it much better than NOLA could. Even the snarkmonsters on r/NewOrleans are mostly just posting jokes about beer and gators. :)
Anything could still happen, and I am a firm believer in Murphy's Law—having been screwed by the 1-in-100 chance before—but I'm MUCH less frightened than I was.
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@zebratron2084 @hystericempress @anthracite That's such a relief to hear. I'm glad you're doing all right.
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@dodec @hystericempress @anthracite Yup, this morning we ended up at "The Food Shoppe" downtown, which turns out to be run by a NOLA expat. Fleurs de lis all over the place, and I had a hell of a bowl of Voodoo chicken mac and cheese—and a wild cherry Fanta, holy fuck, maybe it's road fatigue and gratitude to be alive, but I didn't expect it to be so good. Really nice folks, too. We are doing okay for now, and I think my current forecast is something like:
(80%): We come home and things are fine and we hug each other a lot.
(15%): We come home and there's a bit of property damage and we muck out and move on.
(5%): Ah, yes, I remember New Orleans. It was the Before Times, before the Great Waters came. Let me tell you a story...
