1 Thanks CY. We have done a lot of evacuations already today in Beaumont,Tx. We have a Mandatory Evacuation starting at 6am on Sunday, but the town looks like everyone is taking to the notices, not alot of heavy traffic. WB offered to come and stay here for a while, but I told him that he was close enough to us already.. say a Prayer for the Gulf coast.. Dan

2 I expect things will go much more smoothly this time around with Bobby Jindal in there as governor. We know the complete imcompetence of both Blanco and Nagin. Hopefully Nagin learned something but being a democrat I doubt it. Blaming everything on Bush worked last time so I suppose he'll just sit on his butt like during Katrina and practice blaming everything on the current administration.

3 He can't do it, though. With a Republican governor in office, and the conventioneers planning to become rescuers, Nagin is going to look like the worst sort of bum if he just sits on his assets.

4 Still offering to come "house-sit" for Dan, but he keeps turning me down. Go figure... So far, we're ok in P-cola and are just starting to get some of the rains associated with Gustov. We're told that it should not be anything more than 30mph winds here...a lot better than they're going to get over in N.O. and at Dan's house (if the storm stays its course). Hang tight, Dan. You've done Rita in '05--I did Ivan in '04 and Dennis in '05. Our thoughts and prays are with you...Oh yeah,remind me again why we still live here?

5 stupi, I guess, for living here in the hurricane alley. Hang tight WB and thanks for the offer of house sitting, but I know what you do to houses..