It's 09/26/2004 at 09:08 AM. Hurricane Jeanne has slammed ashore. Right now according to NOAA, the storm is headed to Tampa. Outside my windows the winds are swirling, trees flapping, and rain coming down in sheets.
The metaphor of a blender is the only thing that comes to mind. The winds have been howling most of the night. I had thought about putting on my rain jacket and walking outside to get the full brunt of the storm, but then thought again that maybe that wasn't such a great idea.
Not much to do but sit, watch and wait. I turned off cable TV a number of months ago, so the only thing you get on the broadcast channel is storm coverage. Most good, but none of it is really exceptional. The radar technology is pretty remarkable. The various weather anchors seem to have mastered a language that I would call "perky weatherspeak". One of my friends said recently after driving from West coast to East Coast that America looks like it had been run through a blender as it all looked the same, same stuff everywhere.
Right now the rain is pouring off the awnings over my window in sheets, except when gusts of wind blow the sheets sideways.
The local blog is reporting news items every few minutes. I wonder if the guys who built blogging software ever expected newspapers to adopt their technology to cover storms like this.
All one can do is sit and wait for the storm to pass over.
Buzz, while you're chillin', check out the fruits of my ActiveWords effort at www.mikelevin.net. I exported and posted my wordbase...let me know what you think!
Posted by: Mike Levin | September 26, 2004 at 11:17 AM