Waiting for Isaac

Here in Louisiana, we're really interested in Isaac, soaking up every word we can get. It looks like it will come ashore as a strong Cat 1 or a weak Cat 2 storm. Lots of information is starting to firm up, and they're getting the track nailed down. Now, it's a waiting game. First, this graphic from the Weather Channel.

That shows Isaac coming ashore sometime tomorrow evening and getting to central Louisiana on Thursday with 45 mph winds.  Not an altogether strong storm, but from all indications, a big one.  Here's another graphic from Weather Underground.

Basically, that 's the same graphic and we're in for lots of rain.  Our governor, Bobby Jindal, is already calling out the state Guard, getting ready to provide aid and assistance as necessary.  PawPaw has filled the vehicles, gotten the spare gas cans full of non-ethanol gasoline, and has given the generator a test run.

Hopefully, the electrical grid guys are on their game, cause sure as hell we're going to have a lot of trees down and wires dangling.  I hope that before they send crews down south to help with the damage we're about to sustain, they make sure that our lights stay on as well.  It doesn't make sense to send crews south when we're about to take a hit as well.

All indications is that this isn't a particularly strong storm, but it is a big one.  We're doing what we can to take care of ourselves.