No gas, no problem

Some stores started opening up again. There was a line at McDonald’s this morning and the bagel shop where we often have breakfast was open and booming. The nearby Starbucks was still closed, though. The grocery store opened for part of the day, but had no milk, bread, toilet paper or, interestingly, bleach/Clorox. I guess people snap that up to purify water? I dunno, but it seemed odd to us.

I spent the morning cleaning up limbs and needles from the yeard and putting the lawn furniture back outside. The green recycling team is going to have a busy time this week. Lots of bags of leaves and limbs and stacks of windfall limbs and trees. The main thoroughfares in the community look a little shaggy with all the wind debris on the roadside.

At least the tv stations have gone back to regular schedules. Four local stations ran commercial free all-Rita all the time for days on end. Since we don’t have cable, there was little relief. We watched Antiques Roadshow last night because it was the only non-Rita TV content! Bless football for forcing them back to normalcy, otherwise we might have had Desperate Housewives pre-empted!

For some reason I have this nagging urge to rent the Bogey & Bacall classic Key Largo. John Houston directed, Edward G. Robinson starred—a great hurricane film.