About a dozen of us had to clear the road to continue North.

They accepted pets, but I think that was because everyone was showing up with pets.

normally i buy only bags of top soil or play sand for the litter boxes, no steenkin’ perfumes, and about half the price of cat litter [or cheaper]. but for preparations for evacuating 7 animals, i have to have boxes of cat litter, preferably the lightweight stuff.

yep, i was here for erin and opal [and frederic, and some others]. well, no, for opal we packed up the dogs and the parents and headed for the hills. lots of my pet-owning friends didn’t leave town early enough and rode out the storm in their cars, pets included.

thanks for the reminder. i need to call a few motel chains and re-check their pet policies. for the past few years i’ve been using days inn almost exclusively whenever i travel, just because almost every single one of their motels allows pets.

As for another carrier, you don’t want to know about the Opal evacuation – 20+ hours in the cab of a Toyota pick-up with a vocally unhappy cat.

Thank you, Blogmother. It would take a cat 4 to blow out the candles now required, a virtual conflagration of wax sticks. We can sure use the rain in South Florida and it might put out the Lake Okeechobee fire.

At least “Barry” looks to be somewhat beneficial with all that rain and maybe not too much in the way of wind.

Not even enough wind to blow out all those b-day candles….:)

I’ve got: batteries for the flashlights, some candles and matches, charcoal for the grill, bottled water for us all. I still need: hurricane food for me, small bag of cat food and small bag of dog food [in case we need to evacuate], and I’m dithering on whether to buy another cat carrier.

Not sure if I have enough cat litter, maybe I should get more of that too.

Speaking of lists, we were renaming all the storms at work this morning. This one is Beowulf, with Beelzebub getting second place in the voting. I don’t think Bryan made it onto the list of contenders.