Things of interest to me:::::::

This is a Nutria. Notice it has a kinda square snout? it is bigger than a muskrat, up to about the same size as a beaver and a voracious herbivore that has caused a lot of damage to native plants all over the south and south west. We use to varmint hunt them in west Texas as they tended to dig holes in earthen dams of farm lakes and ponds and ruin them. Imported from South America they have become one of those ecological disasters you hear about from time to time. They were along the side of the road the other day and I got this picture of them.

So.. DMORT is going to be moving out.. the plan is for the DMORT people to be totaly gone by Feb 28 and turn all this activity over to the state. We are talking now about what place FEMA is going to have on this location up to and after that time, there seem to be lots of options. For those of you that think you work in a fluid environment, you cannot imagine how quickly the road map changes for what happens tomorrow on one of these disasters. Virtually no plan survives writing it into a word document. FEMA is very used to moving in and out of
locations. In their minds, every one of these sites are temporary. I know they can either leave and donate, or loan some of this equipment to the state (hmmmmmm).... the data belongs to them, but the phones and switching gear is FEMA, the trailers are a bout half FEMA and half
DMORT, the generators, external lighting and security is all from FEMA . Everyone is going home for Christmas and a new bunch rotating in next Wednesday.

Not sure what to do with some reduced time down, but movies are on the list this weekend. Going to cook some food in the apartment, read.. do some laundry and maybe get out and see some of the sights in town during the daylight. There is a very nice Museum just down the street from the apartment too.. Maybe get some time walking on the levee ... supposed to be very nice weather anyway... YAY.