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Hey everyone!
Yes, I'm here in Dallas, TX - a very fun trip! It took about 12 hours - but the first 100 miles or so were the toughest/longest. My cat was actually pretty good about it, though!
Right now, I have no clue if I'm homeless. I'm not even sure how I'm going to be able to find that out without going there. At this point, I'm in this hotel until AT LEAST Saturday morning - depending on what the news reports are, I'll make a call then. One of the reasons I evacuated to Dallas was because my company has an office here, so I'm going to go into there tomorrow and try to get some work done. BUT I'm safe, my cat is safe, and I have flood insurance.
If any of you are seeing some of the coverage - the Hyatt is very near the SuperDome, and my office literally looked out on the Dome. I haven't seen pictures of our office building, but if my window blew out - there's a bunch of papers on Poydras with my handwriting on them --- when I left the office Friday afternoon, we were barely in the cone of uncertainty (Friday morning we were outside of it). If we'd thought at that point we were going to be leaving, I would have at least cleared off my desk into the file cabinet. Oh, the Hyatt is the hotel they're showing that has 3 or 4 concave archs to it, and one entire arch has all the windows blown out.
The other pictures I saw that are actually quite irritating to see, is of I-10 near the cemeteries. The interstate goes under the railroad tracks, and they just last year finished installing a LARGE new pump station - and supposedly it has no generator backup. Though I did hear that on the radio, so maybe the generators are underwater. But if they don't have generators, that was VERY poor planning.
Sorry for the long post - some times you just have to let stuff out. Thanks for having me on your list Scrooge McSam -- and thanks to everyone else for the thoughts/etc.
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