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Kinda sleepy, kinda headache-y so this is going to be a quick flyby update on stuff I've watched in the last, oh, 24 hours.

Finally got off my ass and watched Thor: Love and Thunder and ( I have spoilery thoughts )

I only caved on Love and Thunder because Cass mentioned she was finally going to watch it and she's notorious for spoiling things while pretending she hasn't. I am fairly certain that was a false alarm as I don't think she watched it, btw.


My original plan was to watch Devil in Ohio last weekend and that got shifted to this weekend. Watched almost all of it in one go and only didn't finish it because my internet went out with five minutes to go. Dead serious on that, btw. All I knew was everyone was screaming about the ending and it cut out on the ending. :P

( Soooo about that. )

Weather mode, activated.

Well, it was bound to happen again eventually. After having exactly ONE storm to think about last year (around my birthday a tropical storm brushed by and flooded the street) this year brings us my least favorite seasonal game: Watch the Tropics. Hmm. Not that name, but you get the idea.


Ian's currently fucking up Cuba and plotting to fuck up Florida (oof) and we're at the stage where the tracking has shifted over enough to make one wonder just how close it's going to come. I mean, it's a big storm and apparently this morning's clouds are courtesy of Ian (thanks?) so we're definitely getting SOMETHING but it's a question of how much. Over the last 24 hours the track has drifted much closer to us and I'd like to throttle everyone who kept chanting, "Charley, Charley!" over and over because that kind of seems like it's manifesting. You might say they were simply seeing similarities and I might argue that one does not give Mother Nature ideas during storm season, you fools. -_-

Anyway, we're at the fun part of planning where it's a smidge too far out to really have a concrete idea as to what will happen but it's also like, two days away. At this point I'm trying to figure out a time frame because working overnight has a few serious drawbacks and working on an island during hurricane season, well... You get the idea. Also, on the drive to work there's literally a pole that's being held up by hopes and prayers so yeah, no, I don't want anyone driving near that until it's fixed. Hopefully they fixed that already because otherwise that's going to be dangerous as fuck.

It's weird being at the talking about the weather stage of life, man. Yesterday Cass and I were discussing Ian (her mom was freaking out at a time when there was no need for freakouts) and I realized once more that she and I have had very different hurricane experiences. "Yeah, when we were kids, Hugo was fun!"

Ma'am. I know that for locals, Hugo is THE hurricane experience to recall, especially since we just had its 33rd anniversary, but let's back that statement up a bit.

a) We've had more recent experience as adults. Dorian took out my power for multiple days and had me scared to death overnight because it was windy as hell and the darkness meant I could obsess over everything that could go wrong and how screwed we were. I think her power blipped for an hour, max.

b) Charleston has proven time and time again it does not know how to actually fix its flooding issue.

c) Hugo itself? Not fun. It was not fun hearing all the trees fall around me, each with a thud that made the house shake and shiver, only to learn that a lot of those trees were hitting the houses next door, on both sides. It was not fun having to move upstairs because the rain was coming in under the door and we weren't sure (and you sure as fuck weren't going to open the door to find out) it wasn't actually flooding. It was not fun being without power for weeks and at this point I legitimately do not know how long we were actually without power because time moves differently for children and I was EIGHT. Which meant she was seven and new to the area and I'm pretty sure she told me they rode things out in a hotel because they were new to the area.


Also, I don't think she's had a hurricane or tropical storm since she became a mom. I know she was pregnant during one that hit the SC/NC border and she was not pleased at having to travel to that area because her father-in-law was being an idiot. I also don't remember if she actually went or if she played the "I'm pregnant so we're not going" card. But there is a world of difference between having to be the responsible adult in the situation and being a kid, and also between being the person who gets to plan hurricane parties and having to worry about kids and high winds and flood waters. I admit I worry more in general but like, dude. I also know you don't plan hurricane parties while mocking how small a storm is scheduled to be...

You don't tempt Mother Nature like that.

That said, all these are just thoughts and musings because we're basically looking at flooding and possible tornadoes, depending on the track it takes.