June 10, 2005
RETURN OF THE CATASTROWHORE
Sing along with me, my peoples...
...back in the saddle againnnnnnnn...
Yes, we're less than a week into hurricane season and what do we have? Our first major storm of the year.
Ain't this fun? Again?
Hello? Phhhhhhhhh. :::taptaptap::: Is this thing on?
Granted, some people in Pensacola and thereabouts are in for a little more than just a ruined weekend, but Arlene, pardon my French, is an ill-timed bitch of a storm.
She's not strong enough to inspire fear. She's not weak enough to ignore. She's mostly just a major nuissance and one we'd rather delay here in Florida until as late as possible, thank you very much.
MIAMI -- Forecasters said Arlene, the Atlantic hurricane season's first named tropical storm, could become a weak hurricane before making landfall in the Deep South late Saturday.Arlene was then expected to move northward along the Mississippi-Alabama line, possibly reaching Tennessee by Sunday afternoon.
Tropical storm warnings and hurricane watches were posted from Florida's Panhandle to Louisiana's southeastern tip, as Arlene's top sustained winds reached 70 mph, up from 45 mph earlier in the day. The wind speed was likely to increase, but forecasters said the biggest impact would be heavy rain.
Arlene would become a hurricane if its sustained winds hit 74 mph.
It's not that I'm ungrateful for the rain. Not in the least. My flowers and grass are soaking it up like Jason Giambi absorbs creatine.
But we've had a week solid of rain. My grass has more moisture than Whitney Houston's upper lip.
Mostly I just want the memory of last year's onslaught of storms to go away. And I know it won't. And Arlene isn't helping much at the moment.
As I sit here awake from the rains, preparing to have my "2004 hurricane season" baby within the next week, I'm so far in denial it ain't even funny. Oh I miss tornado alley! Good luck with Arlene on your end!
I also find quite a bit of irony that "N" this year would be TS or Hurricane Nate, considering that's the name of my child born in 2004!
Posted by: robyn at June 11, 2005 04:22 AMHeh....Arlene tweren't that bad. I managed 2 solid semi-sunny-like days out of the weekend...and a sunburn on my wrists from talking on the phone outside.
Posted by: cessna at June 13, 2005 10:25 PMI never thought about having to apply SPF 50 to talk on the phone.
Does your house have no roof? Better Cingular reception outside?
The world wants to know, Cess.
Posted by: Jeff at June 14, 2005 06:42 AM