Going Home

Am I insane?
My plans to go Palestine never happened; I spent most of the day boarding up windows, about seven hours of the day. Last night someone tried to commit suicide down the street from me by jumping into the ship channel, fortunately she did not succeed. They say the surge won’t be as bad, but the winds will still be bad, most of my neighbors have come back due to the traffic. I walked down the street earlier tonight it was so eerie to see no one driving down the streets. All the stores are closed; most of the gas stations in East End are closed, most of the people have seemed to have left, or at least what I can see. They already say on the police radio that they are constant break ins all over the place. They say the storm will go up north and pull an Allison. Flooding? This city was brought to its knees four years ago. To be honest I have no place to go, supposedly they going to open shelters after the storm at high schools around but I don’t know if it’s true or going to happen, I even got an offer from a lady in North Carolina to stay with her family, her husband, who is part of the army national guard and was called out for Katrina and was on stand by to come here, I said thanks but no thanks, I can’t ever see myself from leaving Houston, this is my home.