Current 'events'

Yes, I know I am majorly behind---gimme time!

I belive I left off on H so I'll start there and H is for HURRICANE. Yep, everyone on and near the Gulf Coast knows hurricane season is in full force and of course, Houston and surrounding areas got slammed by TS Erin earlier this week. And this weekend we're all being prompted to prepare for the impending landfall of Hurricane Dean. Too early yet to tell where it'll hit but always best to stay informed and get prepared. Me, I've done little and am not sure just what my plan would be should it appear to be coming this direction.

Thinking of this has brought back memories of Hurricane Rita back in 2005. Oh what memories! Monday prior to the storm hitting there was an 'emergency' meeting of whatever staff wanted to attend to discuss preparations. So there we are being told by the VP who also happens to be the mayor here of Happyville that they've been informed by the National Weather Service that 'they've never been more certain of the path of a storm and this bitch (though he didn't use that word) was coming straight up the Colorado (River-happens to run through Happyville)'.

What must first be said is that I work in a brick building that is about three feet off the ground. I am also in an office FULL of paper--lots and lots of it and it all contains confidential information. The great plan to 'secure the files' was to move all files out of steel filing cabinets into cardboard boxes that would stacked on pallets and shrink wrapped then moved to the warehouse--a metal building on a concrete slab at ground level. Ok, that appears BRILLIANT.

We had a FIELD DAY with that one. Boss-man though it was particularly funny and that became the answer to everything needing to be secured--shrink wrap it! When I commented about making certain the cat was safe I was instructed to 'shrink wrap it'. Well Boss-man should have known the rest of us would not let that go.

Sooooooo, when he went to lunch, gremlins came in and basically shrink wrapped his office!....the desk, the chair, the computer, the phone, the file cabinet.....and I even found a stuff cat that looked much like Willy that was shrink wrapped and placed in the middle of his desk.

Fortunately for us, Rita turned and we didn't get so much as one drop of rain. But we've gotten a lot of mileage out the shrink wrap story!