Steve and Judy's Travels!

 

A major hurricane heading for the Western Louisiana shore, with 150 mph winds and a 10 to 20-foot storm surge.  Rough stuff.  We still have the pandemic and so much more going on; but for our next-door neighbors Buddy and Marilyn, Marilyn played water volleyball today, like she does every day, then collapsed this afternoon from what the doctors are describing as a massive brain bleed (for no apparent reason).  Buddy followed the ambulance to the hospital, she went into surgery, he got to see her briefly as they took her from recovery to ICU, then they sent him home tonight with no idea of what to expect from here.  As of this writing, she has survived surgery, but that’s all we know. 

 

The hurricane isn’t going to hit us, so far so good with the pandemic, and you just never know what’s next.

 

 

 

Hurricane Laura is still projected to stay well north of us.

 

We’re way down in the south tip of Texas dodging the bullet.  Laura is supposed to make landfall as a Category 3 hurricane at the Texas Louisiana border tomorrow night; a direct hit on Beaumont and Lake Charles.  That’s four hundred miles away from us.  It sucks that anybody has to get hit by this, especially an area that just got saturated by Marco.  They’re going to get a lot more water.

 

 

The one we took a while back to see the wood storks.  The road there doesn’t usually look like this.

 

 

And it’s really not supposed to look like this!

 

You can see where the road continues underwater by tracing the curve of the tops of fence posts on the right to the bank on the other side.

 

Again.  Darn low spots.

 

 

But now she’s lagging behind.  Marco, the one that we thought was going to hit us, is now headed toward New Orleans on Monday.

 

Then Laura, who was supposed to hit New Orleans, is now projected to come ashore further west, by Houston, on Wednesday.

 

The land between Houston and New Orleans is going to get hit by two hurricanes two days apart.  Ouch.  Now we, way south in the Valley, are not expecting anything more than spotty showers.  The bus is still locked and loaded though, just in case.

 

 

Now the tracks are predicted to cross.

 

Twice!  It was a hurricane race before.  Now it’s destruction derby!

 

The whole mess has shifted north for now.  The bus is packed with everything except the last day stuff like computers, phones, and chargers.  We’ll wait and watch.