Hurricane! (The non-alcoholic kind)

Everyone has their morbid pleasure in life. Some love war footage, others election coverage. Personally, I am a fan of hurricane season. I like nothing more than sitting around when a devastating hurricane is bearing in and watching the repetitive coverage of the big red and orange swirling mass on the screen. Plenty of evacuation warnings, stock video of gridlocked traffic, waves battering some pier on the beach, clueless reporters saying "hunker down" a lot. This Sunday I worship at the altar of weather.com with Jim Cantore as my pastor. Sadly, I still do not have cable in my current dwelling so I am relegated to watching the hourly web reports. They essentially condense the past hour of coverage into 2 or 3 small segments. I guess my only complaint is the lack of background noise in between viewings.

Onto the subject of Hurricane Katrina: This thing was at 175mph this morning and people were still brazenly wandering about in areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama directly within its path. Maybe it’s just a byproduct of being a Floridian whom has actually been through a few severe hurricanes, but anyone should know that if a category 5 hurricane hits you all that remains are piles of debris where your neighborhood once was. I have a feeling this one is going to be really bad. It’s sad that these people are naïve enough to think they are going to ride it out. Oh well, more episodes of Storm Stories for me to sit through.

Again I close with a comment from a friend:
[20:03] ddhex27: i wish the weatherwoman would fart and then say "imagine that, but a billion times stronger"
[20:05] ddhex27: then she rips off the panties and holds skid stains up to the camera. "THAT is what new orleans will look like tommorrow morning"