Rita Watch: Advisory 4

The traffic this morning was especially heavy. I don't know if it has to do with the evacuees from Houston, but it sure was bad. I think the Houstonians that have come to Austin are so used to sitting in traffic for 2 hours each morning that they got up and just drove around.

Right now our Tele-Centers are training all of our temps on how to take a DUA claim. I went thru our materials this morning and decided which parts we should emphasize, and which parts we could skip.

Network operations shut down the Houston switch completely this morning as a precaution. The building it's located in is in a flood prone part of town.

The Goddess went to the grocery store last nite. The tuna and water were completely sold out. She bought a bunch of stuff that doesn't require cooking, because we were told to prepare for no electricity. The funny thing is that our stove is a gas stove! We don't need electricity to cook! She forgot that while she was at the store. She was thinking we would have to cook outside on our grill. Duh!

Fill up the water jugs!