Blue Dog Nights

So I haven’t been posting a whole lot recently. Mainly because not a whole lot has been going on with me. I’ve just been thoroughly enjoying my time with family and hanging out on Gun Lake.

I had kind of thought that my next post would be about the countdown to my arrival in the bayous of Terrebonne Parrish, Louisiana and how excited I am to start this new chapter of my life. But that countdown is a bit up in the air at the moment. I had planned on leaving the Great Lakes state on Wednesday and arriving in Chauvin on Thursday. But it looks like Gustav has other ideas for me.

Right now, Gustav is about 80 miles east of Kingston, Jamaica and beginning to strengthen. It’s projected to pass east or south of Jamaica today and then turn back to the west. It’s forecasted to enter the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend and continue tracking north or northwest. Most forecasts are suggesting Gustav has a strong possibility of becoming a Category 3 hurricane as it enters the Gulf, with the potential to develop in to a Category 4 or 5. So at this point, I’ve never wanted a weather forecast to be so wrong in all my life. A storm like this could be utterly devastating to the Gulf Coast. So folks, let’s channel all our positive energy to knock Gustav off the radar.

The good folks at Bayou Grace will be spending today getting the office and tool shed and the families and students they serve prepared and ready for evacuation. And then close the office starting tomorrow so they can get themselves and their families prepared and off to safe locations.

As many of you know, last March I joined 70+ volunteers from the Detroit Presbytery on their sixth Hurricane Katrina relief mission trip to the Gulf Coast. I was quite excited when I received an email the other day announcing the seventh trip (back to Pearlington, MS) set for the last week in October and the first week in November. Let’s just pray that Katrina 7 doesn’t become Gustav 1.