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12 September 2021 - Post Ida
Sep. 12th, 2021 07:09 pmI’ve put away my suitcases after hurricane Ida, but not without considering the detritus that stays in the suitcases because I considered it necessary at some point. Some things are eventually removed but there are a few constants.
The travel space bags are a relic of a trip to London and Paris with my sister. Someone recommended the bags for packing. Insert clothes, squeeze the air out, and acquire the ability to pack even more! Well maybe. After years they don’t really shrink like they used to. Now I use them for organization. I package outfits together to insure that I have everything needed. And I tell myself that it saves the TSA time when they want to rummage through my things. Everything is in clear plastic bags. The things one tells oneself in a era of surveillance.
One suitcase had a personal size Klennex container. Was that added for a funeral? Lip gloss for a dry climate? These are things I could remove. The overnight bag has a phone charger connection for a car along with a device to hold the phone upright while I drive. That’s the result of flying to the northeast, renting a car, and realizing that I needed to use my phone’s GPS for directions. How was I to drive without looking down at my phone all the time? That stays in, even though I haven’t flown anywhere in two years.
The extension cord and the Polarized Grounding 2-Prong Adapter are artifacts of Katrina and other storms. I had evacuated to Shreveport and my older relatives and family friends lived in homes built in the 40’s and 50’s. I found it difficult to use my laptop in their homes without adapters. Both have remained in my suitcase or overnight bag because hotels don’t always put outlets where they are needed and some hotel outlets are just as antique. The extension cord was used during Ida to plug my personal computer up cater-corner to my work computer.
The latest additions to the overnight bag are a tiny bottle of hand sanitizer and a mask. I look forward to removing those at least. However, it may be some time before they are evicted.
In other “news”, I returned from the storm to find that the chickens are back. There are only two of them wandering my block now where there used to be five. I even found them in my back yard, possibly because the back fence is down. They are as fat as they used to be. I still wonder if chickens are smart enough to realize that their numbers are smaller. Crows can count to eight, I read. But chickens? As food animals, I do hope that they can’t. As it is, I wonder if their owner evacuated and left them. Or if these are the ones that escape nearly every day. I was blaming a negligent owner, but on a bike ride I passed an eight foot fence. As I passed, a chicken flew to the top of the fence and then landed down on the sidewalk. These chickens are truly free range and more than one house in the neighborhood has a flock, based on the sound I hear when biking.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhPZI-_9mdYkhCfhDGz_NjxWMdyZ?e=MoaKyh
The travel space bags are a relic of a trip to London and Paris with my sister. Someone recommended the bags for packing. Insert clothes, squeeze the air out, and acquire the ability to pack even more! Well maybe. After years they don’t really shrink like they used to. Now I use them for organization. I package outfits together to insure that I have everything needed. And I tell myself that it saves the TSA time when they want to rummage through my things. Everything is in clear plastic bags. The things one tells oneself in a era of surveillance.
One suitcase had a personal size Klennex container. Was that added for a funeral? Lip gloss for a dry climate? These are things I could remove. The overnight bag has a phone charger connection for a car along with a device to hold the phone upright while I drive. That’s the result of flying to the northeast, renting a car, and realizing that I needed to use my phone’s GPS for directions. How was I to drive without looking down at my phone all the time? That stays in, even though I haven’t flown anywhere in two years.
The extension cord and the Polarized Grounding 2-Prong Adapter are artifacts of Katrina and other storms. I had evacuated to Shreveport and my older relatives and family friends lived in homes built in the 40’s and 50’s. I found it difficult to use my laptop in their homes without adapters. Both have remained in my suitcase or overnight bag because hotels don’t always put outlets where they are needed and some hotel outlets are just as antique. The extension cord was used during Ida to plug my personal computer up cater-corner to my work computer.
The latest additions to the overnight bag are a tiny bottle of hand sanitizer and a mask. I look forward to removing those at least. However, it may be some time before they are evicted.
In other “news”, I returned from the storm to find that the chickens are back. There are only two of them wandering my block now where there used to be five. I even found them in my back yard, possibly because the back fence is down. They are as fat as they used to be. I still wonder if chickens are smart enough to realize that their numbers are smaller. Crows can count to eight, I read. But chickens? As food animals, I do hope that they can’t. As it is, I wonder if their owner evacuated and left them. Or if these are the ones that escape nearly every day. I was blaming a negligent owner, but on a bike ride I passed an eight foot fence. As I passed, a chicken flew to the top of the fence and then landed down on the sidewalk. These chickens are truly free range and more than one house in the neighborhood has a flock, based on the sound I hear when biking.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhPZI-_9mdYkhCfhDGz_NjxWMdyZ?e=MoaKyh
