If the news would stop using the phrase "The Big One" that would be just great ( Read more... )

Last night I worked until midnight. People kept coming into the store and talking about Hurricane Katrina. I had heard, until that point, that it was headed for east of us, but they started to worry me. I went out with sumkindahate to eighties night at The Dervish for the first time in months and figured I would keep tabs today on what the hurricane is ( Read more... )

Hurricane season always manages to catch me by surprise, so I end up unprepared. There's no bottled water. There are no batteries, and if there were, I don't think I own a flashlight. There are people whose power just came on today after the damage from Cindy, and now Dennis is supposed to hit, when? Sunday, I think. According to the weather ( Read more... )