Hurricane warnings
Warning: I'm feeling moderately alarmist right now. We're making hurricane preparations on a personal level, and A. is heavily involved in hurricane recovery planning on the city-wide level (for a pleasant change). He's staying late at work most of the week, and has been told not to plan to go anywhere this weekend. It rained heavily here last week with remnants from Fay, with a moderate amount of tree damage across the Triangle. The soil is wet and loose, and trees were heavily stressed last year because of the drought. These are ideal conditions for trees to break limbs and/or fall over entirely due to high winds. Most of the storm tracks have Hanna headed inland over Charleston then turning due north and crossing the Triangle and/or the Triad, late on Friday. He's asked me to tell people that unless you're having a 'got to get to the hospital' emergency and a tree across your driveway, he's not likely going to be able to help cut it up right away. He's expecting to have to work all this weekend and likely through the week next week on 12-hour shifts.