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murumatsuI do want to talk about Idaho Falls and Yellowstone, which was amazing.
I had only a very vague mental image of what it would be like, which was wildly surpassed by the reality of actually seeing geysers.
I haven't read all my email yet (home email--not gonna touch the work stuff til Tues!). But the latest one is from a friend from Slidell, just before evacuating. Her husband (former coworker of mine, all-around good guy and one of the few people I know who has a sense of humor that makes sense to me) is going to stay, in a mandatory evacuation zone, with the only vehicles available being a bike and a canoe, as they've evacuated anything with a motor. I know why he's doing it; they lost a lot after Katrina because it sat there soaked for weeks and he thinks he can haul stuff up to the second floor if necessary and avoid some of the rebuilding--I know this was a long-term plan. Still, I really wish he was out of there.
If there was one thing that Andrew taught me, it was that TV images of a disaster don't do anything more than give you the barest inkling of what it's actually like.
Moving way north takes a little of the intensity out of my hurricane tracking. But I still know way too many people in the path of trouble.
I had only a very vague mental image of what it would be like, which was wildly surpassed by the reality of actually seeing geysers.
I haven't read all my email yet (home email--not gonna touch the work stuff til Tues!). But the latest one is from a friend from Slidell, just before evacuating. Her husband (former coworker of mine, all-around good guy and one of the few people I know who has a sense of humor that makes sense to me) is going to stay, in a mandatory evacuation zone, with the only vehicles available being a bike and a canoe, as they've evacuated anything with a motor. I know why he's doing it; they lost a lot after Katrina because it sat there soaked for weeks and he thinks he can haul stuff up to the second floor if necessary and avoid some of the rebuilding--I know this was a long-term plan. Still, I really wish he was out of there.
If there was one thing that Andrew taught me, it was that TV images of a disaster don't do anything more than give you the barest inkling of what it's actually like.
Moving way north takes a little of the intensity out of my hurricane tracking. But I still know way too many people in the path of trouble.
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Date: 2008-09-01 03:24 am (UTC)