Today is to be a neighborhood block party in the previous area I lived in just a short time ago but after waking up to a downpour, I am not too hopeful that it will happen. Of course, we have our own plans should that not take place. "Yes", we do make plans and "Yes" we do have rooms booked should Ernesto come our way. If there is one thing we have learned, it is that hurricanes are no longer typical but have changed so much that they now defy physics. Meaning can't happen, shouldn't have happened ... but it did.

If we do have to leave, we object to being called evacuees, worse yet, refugees. We are people first and foremost. I won't tell you the price for our rooms but it is very steep. It can only be called price gouging after a disaster so the hotels and motels seemed to have wised up and raised the prices before the disaster occurs. At almost $3.00 a gallon for gasoline, we will be paying a high price to get to hopefully a safe haven.

If Ernesto makes Mississippi his target, my suspicions of what has happened down here and continues to happen, will only grow. How can they not with the threat of terrorism all around us?