The only amusing thing that happens with hurricanes going down on the bayou is that Cajuns get put on TV—with probably half the country trying to figure out what language they’re speaking. Of course, then the TV foofs figure out that oh, maybe the hurricane will hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast. That gets them to talking about the burg of Biloxi … and brings me to my point of distraction.

The “lox” is not pronounced like the lox you might put on your bagles. It’s not “Bye-LOCKS-ee” or “Bih-LOCKS-ee”. It’s “Buh-LUCK-see”.

Of course, I’m sure that Rick is happy that he doesn’t have to hear TV newsfoofs try to pronounce Gautier. [There's lots of non-Coasties that stumble on Gautier, folks. I did until I knew Rick.]

All in all, the one thing that I wish that could happen, but won’t, is that Yoknapatawpha County could be once-and-for-all flooded out and riven from the Mississippi landscape. [Why yes, I do detest the oeuvre of William Faulkner. Thanks for asking.]