Hanna is veering eastward, trending away from its previous path through the center of NC and aiming for the coast. It has also slowed down in its forward movement a good deal, so it is now projected to hit the SC/NC coast during the day Saturday. We likely won't have much in the way of clean-up in central NC, then, which is good, but I sure am ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

I talked to my dad this morning - they're fine - they have power, but none of the broadcasters in their area are up and running, save one radio station (WJBO, which I think is an AM, and one of the older stations in town). So he has next to no news, which is driving him nuts. His wife's daughter and her 6-year-old are in town and staying with ( Read more... )

The reason I'm so twitchy about hurricanes is that the spousal unit is the Arborist for the town, and in the event of storm damage, he'll have to stay in town and work 12-hour days for the duration of the cleanup. This is a well-worn drill in our house, and it goes like this - he works, I do all of the housework and childcare and care-and-feeding ( Read more... )

I'm not terrifically worried about my father, although I haven't talked to him yet. He's supposedly at home, as LSU is closed today. His home phone service is out, and the cell is acting strangely. BR took some wind damage, and LSU's campus got beat up pretty well.

Most of the GPGC's families are present and accounted for, as are bluekitsune, her fiance ( Read more... )