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waiting

This says that we'll be feeling the effects of the new hurricane sometime on Saturday. I'm worried, no sense in pretending I'm not, even this far away from the coast. I'm not sure how else I should feel or how to prepare. It's bizarre to know several days in advance what's coming your way, very ominous, especially when the current weather here is normal: sunny, hotter than is comfortable, the usual. It's scary, because you just have to wait. I grew up in a place where tornadoes happened every so often, and they continue to scare me badly, but they happen suddenly. Hurricanes? They lumber on the horizon for days, threatening. This is new for me.

EDIT: you'll see if you click the above image link that the storm has veered away from us to a path that's a lot closer to where the last one went. The immediate fear I was feeling has changed to something still insistent but with more distance: what happens if the same places get hit again?

Posted by Heather at September 21, 2005 07:54 PM