So far, so good.
It’s the first day in over five weeks that we’re officially being allowed back into our neighborhood, and Jonno is up running. I’d asked him to be ready to depart at 6am, knowing that the roads are going to be P-A-C-K-E-D packed–I mean, it’s essentially evacuation in reverse, without the benefit of contraflow. We’re taking the back way home, down through bayou country, but I still think we’re gonna hit traffic…. Anyway, Jonno’s awake and in the shower and it’s barely 5:30am. I wouldn’t be surprised if the National Weather Service issued a bulletin today indicating that hell has, indeed, frozen over.
Our plan is a pretty simple: retrieve some of Jonno’s things (he’s leaving town for a couple of weeks on Friday), patch up the missing windows, duct tape the ‘fridge and haul it to the street (we’re not even gonna try to clean the bitch), have some brunch with our buddy Kappa, and head on back to Lafayette before most people have gotten through their front doors. I won’t be able to go back permanently until I finish up a job here and participate in my brother’s wedding–all in all, about another week and a half–but it’s a nice first step.
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