Beautiful Chicago morning, sunny, comfortable, blue sky.
I’ve got a couple of hours to get all of us ready and to the right place. Then as few hours as we thought we could have, but still far too many. This will be a long day.
It seems a bit strange to me that I can’t easily find more pics of the hurricane. Or Boston. You’d almost think they weren’t a big deal.
n
65F and clear, headed for 80F.
There has to be more to the story in Boston. I’m thinking human error, or sabotage.
Some folks got really lucky on the coast. Some, not so much.
Time to start my day.
N
75 and wet here.
Hurricane Florence now downgraded a bit, and due late in the day. Still nasty though. Remember, it’s a GOOD THING when it comes in at less than predicted (although it has real costs when they get it wrong.)
I’ll be traveling this afternoon and evening, wish me luck.
Naturally, as soon as my ebay sales are picking up, I need to put them on hold for a few days….
Oh, and Friday the Thirteenth is on a Thursday this week…..
n
73F and damp here in the swamp.
On this day, foreign terrorists murdered thousands of our citizens and allies as they went about their lives. It happens that I was only a few miles from Ground Zero working at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. It was a turning point in the national consciousness and in my own.
I still can’t talk about it without tears and anger. OFD would say that’s probably PTSD,. but if so, I’m no different from millions of others, and what millions do isn’t a disorder, it’s normal.
I remember watching the towers fall, getting every bit of cash I could out of the machines in the lobby of our venue, and heading to the grocery store. We bought a week’s worth of food, topped up the rental car gas tank, and returned to our hotel. Then I sat numb in the chair, watching the news feed on PBS, the only channel still on the air as their antenna wasn’t located on top of the World Trade Center. The only comms device that was working was my Skytel pager which allowed me to send email to friends and relatives. I carried that thing for years afterward, just on the strength of that experience.
We ended up driving toward home in our rental car. I’ll forever be grateful to Hertz for their response to the attacks. They told us “Get home safely, and let us know where you leave the car.” This is in stark contrast to the green and white company that told my co-workers that if they took the car out of state, they’d be charged with grand theft.
The murderous attack on 9/11 still is taking lives as first responders and ordinary people get sick and die from their exposures on the day.
NEVER FORGET. NEVER FORGIVE.
nick
75F and saturated again today. Forecast from NOAA has more rain in it. We’ll see, but I expect to get wet.
Re-read a couple of posts and days worth of comments last night and was filled with nostalgia. One was less than a year old. It’s shocking how much things can change during one year.
The other had me explaining my bona fides and urging me to write more. That was from 2015. It seems so far away now, and yet so short a time.
Lets start this new week with renewed vigor. The world to come will have winners and they should be US. The threats are numerous and varied, but the great thing about prepping is that being prepped for one thing usually covers you for many more.
nick
80F and 86%RH at 9am.
And I don’t feel like hammered sh!te this morning. I’m sore, and stiff, but don’t feel hungover, so I must have managed my fluid intake better than usual…
Haven’t looked at the slab yet, but it looked great by flashlight last night.
More yard and house work today, after bacon and waffles.
n
Kids and wife let me sleep.
80F and saturated outside. NOAA forecast has rain for us at some point today. Will it hold off long enough for me to pour concrete?????
I guess we’ll see.
n
78F and 80%RH at 6am. Yesterday we even got a blue sky and fluffy clouds at the end of the day.
I really need to pour the slab for the gennie this weekend, so I hope our break from the rain holds.
Week went by in a flash.
Did get some work related stuff done. Might have a new gig…
Got some cleaning in my office done. Got some stuff around the house done, but not as much as needed.
No work on driveway pile, no work on gardens.
Ebola moved into a city of 1.4 million. It’s almost guaranteed to start spreading now.
3 planes with sick people on them detained upon landing…
45 days without leaving the house. Can you do it? And remain sane? Employed? How about the services that hold our world together? Can you keep working and stay home if school gets closed?
Not time to panic, but time to stock up.
What did you do to keep yourself and family safe and well if things go to he11?
n
75F and saturated out…
Short week is short.
Gotta get some stuff DONE. Got a bunch of stuff in process, which means spread around the place, and I need to get some done and put back, or removed from the premises.
Forecast for more rain is putting a damper on my concrete pouring plans. And the garden work. Half my office is pulled apart and stacked in the hallway. Spouse is going nuts…
So I better get to it and start the day.
n
77F and 90%RH, but the sun isn’t up yet….
So far, not seeing any effects from Gordon, at least none you’d notice. Fine with me, as we’ve got others forming up and pointed at us.
I note that the march to war continues, on foreign fronts and at home. The geopolitical realignment seems to be proceeding too. Currencies are collapsing. Ships and soldiers are being positioned and trained. Radicals are unseating incumbents. Incumbents almost NEVER lose.
The times they are a changin’…
n