IIFG?

Wrod.

Everybody to ita's to cuddle!

Orderly line, please!

why the fuck did he stay in his house?

I wonder about that, but it's precisely what my parents would do. It makes sense, but is not sensible.

The eyewall passed to the east of the city, so they didn't get the big winds.

Yeah, but with a storm this size, the winds to the west of the eye are still pretty damn big.

The counterclockwise spin of a hurricane makes the worst damage on its eastern edge, but CNN meteorologist Chad Myers cautioned that "there's not really an easy side of a Category 4 storm" on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

The eyewall passed to the east of the city, so they didn't get the big winds.

Yeah, but with a storm this size, the winds to the west of the eye are still pretty damn big.

I was gonna say -- granted, it sounds like NOLA won't experience the worst-case scenario of direct hit, category 5 storm, but it sure doesn't sound like the city will be "spared," per se.

ita, what kind of storage is your stuff in?

I'm relieved that -t checked in and she and her DH are safely away.

Oh, good. I came over just for that.

But since I'm here - Casper is adorable, and happy birthday to her. Happy birthday to the relevant buffistas as well, and happy lounging to ita.

sorry to post and run, but i've got phone coverage today.

I wonder about that, but it's precisely what my parents would do. It makes sense, but is not sensible.

I don't even think it makes sense when there's a mandatory evac order, because staying not only endangers one's own life, but the lives of any rescue workers unlucky enough to get the assignment to try to rescue the people who refused to evacuate. I say this, feeling pretty certain that my own father would have stayed unless my mother forced his hand, and that he would have spent much of the time on the porch, watching it all.

what kind of storage is your stuff in?

Ground floor, basically.

We'll see. I'll call them in a couple weeks and see. I wouldn't be going to pick stuff up before October anyway.

NOLA webcams: [link]

Some cams are not working. I wonder why....

I have to do everything in the world at work today, apparently (phone and misc. coverage for two people who aren't here, and deal with some new student orientation stuff as a student, along with my regular job, and apparently my boss has work for me? WTF?), and it's a HUNDRED THOUSAND DEGREES at my desk. All summer it was freezing up here, but today? There is no air whatsoever coming out of the vents on my whole side of the floor. ARGH.

Edit: AND what I really need to be doing is jewelry shopping for a wedding. I swear. Fucking people, mang.

I just looked at myself in the bathroon mirror, and my clothes don't really match. I am wearing an olive green skirt with a blouse that has a blue and sage green floral design. I thought it would look all right when I was half asleep this morning. But the skirt is really yellowy-green and the green in the top is very blue. I'm 35 and I can't even dress myself!