hoping for a difference between then and now

[silveraspen]

Seven years ago, I watched the news and the buildup and the weather-tracking, and I bit my lip, and I didn't say anything, and I didn't say anything, and I didn't say anything, because I was superstitious enough to worry that doing so would be like drawing the unwanted attention of some inimical force, and that maybe if I didn't say anything it

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[sockkpuppett]

I hit panic mode last night, and it's just elevating. The storm seems to be moving farther west (by the trackers, anyway), but if it slows down and stops in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, it's going to suck up all of that oil-polluted water and get bigger and bigger.

And NOLA is still going to get hit.

[silveraspen]

It didn't stop in the Gulf, at least! So there's that.

And now it is early morning hours of the 29th, and Isaac has made landfall in Louisiana as of around 6:45, the news tells me... and evidently isn't moving.

I hope the news is better when dawn comes, for your sake and mine and everyone else's who's being affected by this, whether directly or indirectly.

Hope you're doing okay.