BandwidthHog's Journal: Yay. A hurricane.

According to Weather Underground we’re getting nailed. According to the chick on the radio we’re getting nailed. But outside? Nah, not so much. The rain has been relatively light for the past six+ hours, wind is blowing “a little bit” according to my lovely lady hanging her head out the window behind me.

Inside? We’re getting hammered. Bottle of Jack, few bottles of wine should that fail us.

On the radio? Another buzzy thing. Oh wait, National Weather Service Dopper RADAR indicated something or other someplace or other. “Potentially life threatening situation,” generic warnings about trying to drive through flooded roads.

It’s supposedly making landfall right now about sixty(?) miles south of us. Flash flood warning in our county until 2:00am. It’s actually fairly tame relative to what the official numbers would indicate. But we’ll see how “tame” it feels when I survey our flood-prone driveway at 6:30 tomorrow morning.

Good warmup hurricane, but ultimately forgettable. C’mon global warming, that all ya got?

Yawn

[rk]

I'm in the Savannah,GA/Hilton Head, SC region and it skipped right past us. It was overcast, misting, and sorta windy for a couple hours.

I think everybody is just jumpy because Katrina is still fresh in our memory, and with the one year anniversary and all.

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Actually, it was a bit of a problem. The road leading into our development is subject to rather deep flooding and had already trapped two cars yesterday afternoon. I fully expected to wake up at 5:30 this morning just to call my boss and tell her I couldn’t come in (she already knew it was a possibility), and then go right back to sleep. Based on that projected scenario I drank a bit too much whisky and got a bit too little sleep.

But alas, the road was perfectly clear and I’m not.

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