"Ida like Hurricane season to be over!"

 August did not end on a high (unless you are thinking temperatures). On the 29th, Ida came ashore as a Cat 4 hurricane at 11:55am CDT near Port Fourchon, Louisiana. She did so with sustained winds of 150mph,  tying the 1856 Last Island hurricane and Hurricane Laura as the strongest landfalling hurricane on record in Louisiana. Ida is also tied for the fifth-strongest hurricane ever to hit the mainland.  

After holding the front door closed for Zeta, which hit us as the latest hurricane on record in the season, and as a Cat 3, we decided to hitch up our antique camper and head for a friend's place in Augusta, GA to ride it out. I had to work Saturday so we did not even get to head out until 6pm. Arrived in Augusta 4pm Sunday... traffic was stupid! Took us 12 hours to get back on Tuesday. Slidell, where I work, is out of power, gas, and groceries. My unit is running on a generator, a gas truck comes every evening to fill up the cars of whoever shows up for work. SE LA & all of southern MS are in a bad way right now as they try to recover from the floods, loss of power, no supplies or gas, and just the sheer amount of damage.

Trying to get to Texas to scatter mom's ashes but I-10 is now closed at Beaumont until late November. OMG. And most of I-10 is closed across Louisiana due to Ida. This does not make a long trip any shorter, y'all. 

Goals met, except for the weight, I bet? No power for the scale. And we ate our hurricane munchies. We also did some retail therapy while in Augusta...found a load of Vera Bradley's in the local GoodWill. I only got 3 of them :-) 

Enough, back to work tomorrow so time for bed. Good Night, World!

Chaotic