Deja vu all over again…
ByIt’s been a touchy few days around here. Hurricane Gustav is eyeing New Orleans up…
over Labor Day. (like Katrina) …
which made Charlie cancel a trip (again)…
while Alison is off at a “retreat.”
In 2005, it was her Freshman retreat. Her class went off for a week to a dude ranch in Texas. She got off the bus laughing and hugging her newfound friends, looking forward to the year. “I never saw a lot of those girls again,” she told me this morning, nervously biting her cheek.
This year it’s her Senior retreat, with those same girls- or at least those who were able come back. They have a strong bond around Katrina, and even though they pointedly don’t like talking about it, there’s no way it’s not a major topic of conversation there this evening.
The adults are giving them the usual reassurances, but it’s hard for these particular kids to take us too seriously; they know firsthand that sometimes things go bad.
Sometimes. Hopefully not this time. That “cone of uncertainty” still has a whole lot of wobble room.
So please, Mother Nature, give us one more pass. Please don’t make us put our levees or our leaders to the test just yet; we’re not real certain of either one.
Gustav, get gone.
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