Oh, crap!

[heavenly_pearl]

I do not like this. I do not like this at all.

Today, while I was watching my daily soaps, As the World Turns was interrupted by a news conference. They're planning a voluntary evacuation of Galveston Island starting tomorrow in case Tropical Storm Rita, which they're predicting might become a Category 3 hurricane, continues on its current path and hits Texas.

Please, no!

It hasn't even entered the Gulf of Mexico yet, so it's entirely possible that the course will change in the next five days (right now, the prediction is that it will hit Saturday morning), but I've just got this terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. This country does not need another big storm just a couple of weeks after Katrina. Granted, it won't be as devastating as what happened in New Orleans, especially since Galveston has solid plans in case of a hurricane and the city seems to be erring on the extreme side of caution, but if it hits Texas, it's going to be a major blow to the oil industry. Gas prices are going to be insane (which makes me suddenly so grateful that I don't drive). Not to mention that if Galveston is hit, that means Houston will most likely get some of it too. What about all the Katrina evacuees who have come here? Will they have to be evacuated yet again, just as they have begun trying to pick up the pieces of their lives?

Then, of course, I'm scared to death about the possibility losing our trailer. When Katrina hit, Mom said that she might be willing to stay behind in a Category 1 or 2 storm, but that if a hurricane got up to a Category 3, we were going up to Nacogdoches and stay with my sister and her roommate at their condo. The trailer survived Alicia, which was another Category 3 storm, but that was over twenty years ago when it was only a few years old. I don't think it could survive another storm like that, especially in the condition it's in now.

This is just terrible!  

I'm so scared...

 

 

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