Have you hugged your inner Rita today?

update: See the red dashed line? It passes pretty much over my house. Well, a little to the left of my house. We’re 200 miles inland and our weather guy says to prepare for 60 mph winds and a power outage. Mild compared to what many have endured, but for us that’s pretty serious…

Now this really pisses me off

I know this is legally “hearsay” but dammit, this pissed me off. Click for the story and the link to her blog; courtesy of Boing Boing. Now I’m off to the doc to see if they’ll change my meds. Really. NPR colleague Farai Chideya has been reporting from areas hit by Katrina — aka the […]

Um, yeah

I know they’re wrong usually, especially this far out. But this can’t be good: (yeah, chances are it might change, but right now they’re saying Cat 3 and hitting Galveston or nearby; I’ve got friends down that way that are already talking evacuating if it gets close enough)