Pat gazed out of the car, a vapourish look of weariness occluding his handsome features. The split rear window of the car neatly spliced his field of vision into the left and right halves of the house.
It was early September in Cocodrie, Louisiana. The parishioners of Terrebonne were in a state of alert as Hurricane Ida approached the United States Gulf Coast. Ida was touted as the strongest landfalling cyclone that season. Pat and his family were one of several evacuees escaping its wrath and were preparing to leave poste haste. After much deliberation, they had decided to permanently move inland.
