Publius & Co.

The situation

It's been raining pretty steadily for several hours now, but, were circumstances different, I'd call it a steady, soaking rain. On the TV, though, it looks like there's a hurricane out there. We should get smacked silly in about 90 minutes, if the weather guys are correct, and so far they've been dead on.

Tony Williams, the mayor of Washington, DC, advised his constituents to, "Keep your behind inside." Sound advice...but of course your standard idiots aren't, and the rescue people will interfere with natural selection and rescue most of them.

Actual interview I saw a few minutes ago (taped earlier in the day):
Newscaster: Why are you out here?
Idiot: I'm just out here, havin' fun.
Newscaster: Don't you think it's dangerous?
Idiot: (After a pause) Yeah, but it's still fun.

The lights have flickered several times, but (obviously) we still have power.

Here's a picture from our back door--

I'm a little concerned about that tree, but I can see the clouds moving (and I mean moving) and they're blowing toward the house whose backyard that tree is in. You can also see the old screen our neighbors didn't bring inside. UPDATE on them: They didn't bring much in, as far as I can tell. Their lawnmower is in the middle of their yard, their grill is against our common fence (pinning the screen against the fence) and their picnic table was flipped upside down.

I'm kinda wishing I had bought the water-resistant case for my new camera.

Just went upstairs, and we've got a storm. Well.

Posted by Victor at Septiembre 18, 2003 06:54 PM