[00 Trans Ram]

Well, looks like Gustav is really coming for New Orleans. We've boarded up our house, packed our stuff, and are on our way out of town. Gonna be staying an hour north at my parent's house, so we'll still be somewhat in the thick of it.

Had to leave the Rhino (nickname for my car) in the garage. Just no way to get it to safety, plus our other 2 cars, 1-month-old twins and my wife. Besides, there are already a half-dozen guys running flood cars - I guess I could too.

I'll let y'all know how everything goes!

[00 Trans Ram]

BTW, if anyone needs advice on how to prepare for the End Of The World, just ask someone from south Louisiana. Just because we have no power, no phones, no e-mail, no internet, and have to boil all our water to drink it - this doesn't mean we can't have fun!

Despite all those things, I went swimming the other day in our pool. OK, so I was actually cleaning branches out from the bottom - but it was cool!

I also grilled some boudin-stuffed pork chops and ribeye steaks, made some baked beans from scratch, and shucked some fresh corn from a friend's garden.

I also used the "down time" to do my first mod on the new G8GT - put a pulley on it. Amazingly, it was a leftover pulley that I decided not to use on my LS1 in my racecar (need all the alternator juice I can get). It fit just fine on the L76 in the G8.