I must admit, it is getting a little hairy out here. I am too vested in my vacation to call it off, but it was a consideration. Honestly, I am not sure I would be much help. Simply by not being a consumer during the thing might actually be more helpful than any amount of work I might do.
The sandbagging might help slow things down and allow people to make some choices or such, but honestly, I have doubt as to the good that does. Though, it does keep people from feeling helpless, and puts the young to doing some "good" rather than having them feeling new feelings and having too much free time. Call me a cynic, and doubt my words, but I watched the sandbag troops lose time and again, with little or no real affect, and so fast it was silly. Oh, and some may have lost their vehicles, parked as many as ten blocks away, when some sandbag levy or other was breeched. As well, with traffic as it is... well, you get the point.
I am trying to get everything ready and get myself out as soon as possible. The crest is not even planned to hit until Tuesday (if we do not receive more rain, which as I speak... yes, it is raining, soon to be quite heavily). I am actually a bit worried about actually being able to leave the area! I-80 is being shut down to the east, I-360 is being shut down to the north, and Des Moines (to the west on I-80) seems to be having trouble all it's own.
I could go to my mother's home, but that would add 500 to 600 miles to my trip. Gas being what it is, I am nervous. Now, I cannot leave until at least Monday, as I have to get everything cleaned, sorted, and properly packed (there is one more delivery, if it gets here!). I am hoping to head out Monday night, so as to be somewhere Tuesday by mid-day. I might have to see if my foster mother would allow me to stay a bit early, then stop through on my way home again. But it would be weird to stop for a day and a half, then come back later. It just seems tacky? Yes, we need more time to talk on our first visit in 15 or more years.
Perhaps an email query is in order... Wish me... *gurgle* luck?
Prayers for your safety. Good grief! Holy Psycho Apocalyptic Weather Patterns Batman!
ReplyDeleteI hope you have an amazing trip!
Do what you must for safety's sake.
ReplyDeleteI'll be crossing fingers and saying prayers.
Be careful, my friend.
Thanks. The prayers seem to have spared me a serious problem. And perhaps a very large part of my areas has been spared. You two are really good at this!
ReplyDeleteWell, it looks like everything is back to my old schedule, and I certainly will enjoy my vacation. Perhaps much more so now.
Yes, it was amazing to see this kind of rain and flooding. We are really being hit everywhere! Flood, rain, drought, and fires, at last look. Well, with gay marriage creeping in, earth worship taking over, socialism becoming the least evil allowed in elections, I have to wonder if the two disasters are not tied. If we lose California, perhaps that will be that?