Andrew and I drove back yesterday from Baton Rouge to Houston on I-10 West through SW La.- Lafayette, Lake Charles, Orange, Beaumont - and it's more hurricane footage crammed into my memory banks. Weird: Water burns vegetation and salts flooded vehicles. What it leaves behind looks the opposite of wet. Billboards: gone. (Thank you for that.) Jack In The Box sign: forlornly on its side. Motels bombed out. Boats resting on top of boats. (One of Andrew's friends went back into his Lakeview home knowing they'd lost everything, but it crushed him that the water had moved their stuff i.e. kitchen table on the stairs.) On a good note: convoys of military, power companies and food delivery trucks from other states thread the highways. Humvees, wide and low. Bucket trucks from West Virginia. Flatbeds from Georgia loaded with MREs and cases of bottled water. I've decided I like driving in the left lane beside a convoy, tucked under its wing like that. It feels safe, nice, respectful.