Hurricane Gustav Preparations

Hurricane Gustav (now category 3) is bearing down on the Gulf Coast and is expected to make landfall in Louisiana on Monday. Our home in Jackson has become a haven for evacuees in our families. This morning (pictured) we loaded up two cars full of things in Hattiesburg at my mother's house and brought them all to Jackson. My mother, although she lives 80 miles from the Gulf Coast, lived through a really bad situation during Katrina and had no wish to do that again. So we left her house this morning (where we had been staying for the Southern Miss game) and we all came to Jackson. Also, Todd's mother and her husband and their friend are under mandatory evacuation of the New Orleans Westbank, so they are on their way to our house as well. That brings the grand total of our household guests (so far) to 4 adult, 2 feline. So we have been shopping and stocked up on things, plus pulled out inflatable beds and made ready 3 guest bedrooms here at the house. It's going to be a strange Labor Day!