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With all evacuation options closed to us, my family begins to prepare for the onslaught of hurricane Katrina.

My husband and I give the children several Rubbermaid containers to put toys in and tell them to put their most cherished possessions in them first, and if their is room to put more things in, add the most important things first. We are preparing them for a worst-case scenario, though we really dont think the water will get into our apartment. We figure it is better to be safe than sorry.

While they are deciding what they can and cant do without, we hop into one of our two cars to go spend our last $38 on groceries. The grocery store is chaotic and packed with people trying to stock up with three days supply of water and food that can be kept without refrigeration and wont need to be cooked. I feel a little better that there are so many people staying, but I have a hard time understanding the items they are buying.

I pay close attention to the food in everybody elses cart and am shocked to see Ramen Noodles, Chef Boyar-dee and other items that need cooking to be palatable. Though "the Plan" calls for following everybody elses lead, I make a crucial decision to purchase crackers and canned cheese, pretzels, peanut butter and graham crackers. I am shopping like a ten year old kid whos parents are gone for the weekend, but I reason that even if the worst is to happen, there will be help coming before we can run out of food.

Back at home, as we carry the few supplies in that we can afford, I find a mass exodus happening. Our apartment is only about a tenth of a mile from Lake Pontchartrain on Highway 11 where Five Mile Bridge provides a main artery for the city of New Orleans to travel to the North Shore. Everybody is sitting in traffic directly in front of my apartment trying to get out of the way of Katrina.

After navigating back into the parking lot of our apartment, we begin to carry our purchases inside. Along the way, we run into various neighbors that live in the twelve other units in our building. We find that all but two other couples are leaving, too. We strike a deal with one of the couples, Heidi and Free. They are a younger couple who live upstairs. We conclude that if the roof blows off our building, they can come down to our place and if the water comes up into our apartment on the first floor, we can go up with them. We now have partners in this fiasco, though they seem almost as clueless as we are.

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