Been traveling, Now studying, Hurricane Katrina approaches New Orleans.

I'm sitting in Atlanta, after a 4500 mile road trip that took a month and a half.
There was camping in the woods with 15,000 other people at the "gathering" in West Virginia...
and there was dancing in Lawrence Kansas... and there were relatives to visit in many places,
including my brother David in Omaha and his family Colleen, Alan, Ryan, Daniel, and Andrew...
there was more Contra dancing in several places... there was Karaoke... there was farm work
to do at my parents in Stanberry, MO... and there were miles to drive back to Atlanta, so
that I could leave a few hours later and attend a 3day dance weekend in Mentone Alabama.


That adventure is complete, and NOW there are Oracle database books to study and review,
because I have a big interview in two days for a great job prospect. I just have to get
back into the focus of computers and systems once again... There are a thousand sub-topics
to study, and very little time - so why am I here posting on LJ?

Drat! my Metalink account is closed again, so I'll have to start another.


Meanwhile...
Hurricane Katrina is a raging CAT5 storm in the Gulf of Mexico, and heading for New Orleans.
One of the UFies "NOLAWitch" has decided that she is NOT going to leave the city, despite the
fact that this is the largest hurricane to ever hit NOLA on record. The biggest other one,
Camile, was a CAT4 that hit in 1969 and killed 250 people. Even if the wind doesn't tear
you house apart, you can still drown. Much of the city sits so low, its at sea level, or
slightly below. The only thing keeping it from flooding is a sea wall near the shore.
If that wall gives way under a 20+ storm surge, then large parts of the city will look like
the tsumani flooded shores of India last year... I hope Nolawitch survives in-tact.