Surviving Ida Part 2:

Day 3. Man it's hot!!! With everyone in the metro area without power, the Louisiana heat and humidity is back with a vengeance- temps in the 90s, heat index into the 100s. The whole metro area is also under a boil water order. A local supermarket opened today, so I'm off first thing tomorrow to try and get more ice. They are saying that restoring power will be "a marathon, not a sprint". They said 8 transmission lines are down. One of them is in the Mississippi. Some areas may be without power for a month (!!!!). Right now we're trying to get money together for a generator big enough to run the fridge and a window AC unit. My poor little 5 month old granddaughter has a bit of a heat rash already. Last night we were inundated with the Louisiana state bird at dusk- we had both the front and back doors open and the mosquitoes accepted the invitation! I hung sheets in the doors and that worked to keep them out so once we swatted the ones that were in, we were good. We also got a nice little rain yesterday evening that helped cool things off. We didn't get that today, so as soon as i dried off from a short cool shower to cool down, i immediately started sweating again. My daughter and i already have a running list of things we need to get to fill a hurricane supply box. With climate change, storms like Ida will start to become the usual rather than the extreme, I'm afraid...