It is really good to have Aliene at home after she was up in OKC for three weeks helping her mother move. She is very glad to be home also!
We hardly had time to relax and then the Hurricane Katrina effects came. While we didn’t get even a small portion of the Hurricane by the time it hit Memphis it was a lot of wind and rain.
Memphis and the area got a lot of persons who evacuated from New Orleans. Even since I moved to Lakeland I have appreciated the expression “Southern Hospitality”. It really is true that Southern people (at least in this area) truly know how to treat a guest, and Memphis is showing it with the people left homeless by Katrina. Not to say anything bad about Oklahoma City residents, who will literally give you the shirt off their back (the Murrah explosion showed that).
Of course, whenever a tragedy like that happens, I think about what if it happens where I am City Manager at, at least on a smaller scale.
Colder weather is coming, or rather is here, and I dread the coming of winter. The only good thing is that I know Spring will follow.
