hurricane

Suzan told me a story tonight that was too fabulous not to be shared.

Friends of mine ran a pet store when I lived in Charleston. During Hurricane Hugo, they couldn’t evacuate all of the animals in their store.  They knew the snakes would be okay, so long as they could get above the water level.  They turned all the snakes loose in the store, then proceeded to board up the windows and doors.  As they were finishing up, they decided to spray paint "Warning, loose snakes" on the front of the store.  They were the ONLY store in their shopping center to not get looted in the days following.  From what they could tell, no one even attempted to break in.

No words, just snickering.

I’m leaving early for dragon*con 2005. I’ve been watching the news with mingled fascination and horror, and with the growing realization that I should probably get to Atlanta either before or after Hurricane Katrina hits our area. We are a multiple-hour-drive inland, practically in Tennessee for crying out loud, and we are still going to have tropical-storm-force winds from this one.Silly me. I don’t feel like driving in a tropical storm, and I’ve got a lot of stuff to do in Atlanta for tech, so I’m going to need to leave tomorrow morning.

By the time it was over, all over, we had paid our fifty-seven dollars for parking and aimed the fully-loaded Jetta back to Brian and Suzan’s, just the three of us. We had escaped the worst of Hurricane Frances thus far, but we knew it was just a matter of time before she came to pay her respects.