Oh, man, my oldest niece is supposed to fly to Chile to meet her parents on Thursday (her sister is in Valparaiso on exchange this fall, so it's an excuse for a fun family vacation). And this afternoon she broke her wrist playing soccer. And she lives in DC, and since they shut down the metro none of her friends can come sit with her, and her cellphone is dying. Surgery tomorrow, and she doesn't even have a book to read in the hospital.
Poor kid! She thinks she can still go to Chile, since she's meeting a friend in Miami and she'll be with family all the rest of the trip, but yikes, how inconvenient!
(GO Giants!)
This was a topic here a while back, right? Connie Britton and Sarah Aubrey on Romney's use of "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts". [link]
I love Connie Britton, dammit.
...and now it is time for Aims to sing San Francisco songs.
So I know during emergencies phone lines get clogged, but sometimes texts get through since there's so much less data. I wondered what our Easterners would think of the idea of a text tree, where a message could be got through and down the chain until it hit somebody with internet service, so we could know how things were going if internet gets knocked out but phone is still up.
Actually, I want us all to learn morse code and become ham radio operators, but I don't know if even that will do it in a frankenstorm. Anyway, stay safe, peoples, we'll be thinking of you even if you can't get to us.
Al Roker's reporting from in front of a very impressive stormy seascape.
We're getting just a touch here in central NC.
