New Orleans Style

Ode to humidity and other N.O. weather

Sweltering in New Orleans is an annual tradition. For that matter weather in New Orleans is an annual tradition.

 
We’ve got all kinds. Fortunately, the French Quarter is the high ground of New Orleans, and typically is one of the few parts of the city with minimal flooding when the Big Weather runs through.

 
Then there’s wind damage. It can be everywhere.

 
Once the sweetheart and I were having dinner with some traveling friends from up north. We finished with our meals, and about 60 minutes later –as we savored our coffee– it was like Chicago the windy city was blowing through. Full with wine and Cajun chicken, we for a moment considered leaving, but then said naw, let’s have one more piece of pie.

 
Then the outdoors turned into something of a Hollywood movie, I have to say. You would not have believed it. One moment we had beautiful clear sky and not a single cloud. The next moment later, trees bent, danced, and swayed in the wind (which we affectionately call The Big Breezy) and rain pelted the restaurant windows coming in at an angle almost perfectly horizontal. We sat back down and finished our desserts.

 
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