Hello Dolly

As terrible and catastrophic as hurricanes are, I can't help but really like the moments right before the storm hits. It is very quiet, very eery and you can just feel the power of the storm on the horizon. Growing up in Louisiana, hurricanes became commonplace, always around, forcing plans to change, Homecomings or weddings to be moved. It's a familiar catastrophe. I was never truly threatened by them living far from the Gulf, but as we saw with the storms of 2005, hurricanes are not quiet things. They are strangely poetic, as close to a world-wide bath as you're going to get.