Ooh. A Hurricane.

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Perhaps it's my Buffalo childhood rearing its head, but I just don't get worked up by weather. Okay, yeah, I'd probably need a change of pants after a close call with a tornado, but all this hullabaloo over Hurrican Lili (which, at last check, was packing something like 120MPH winds [Edit: Okay, it's now at 135MPH, which is Category 4, and now has my attention. I have taunted Happy Fun Jew, and I will taunt Happy Fun Hurricane. I will ph33r |\|0 3v1l.], and was booking like hell to the NW). . . I don't give a shit. I'm more annoyed anticipating a loss of internet connectivity than worried about more wind and rain doing anything but making my car wet.

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Perhaps it's my Buffalo childhood rearing its head, but I just don't get worked up by weather. Okay, yeah, I'd probably need a change of pants after a close call with a tornado, but all this hullabaloo over Hurrican Lili (which, at last check, was packing something like 120MPH winds <i>[Edit: Okay, it's now at 135MPH, which is Category 4, and now has my attention. I have taunted Happy Fun Jew, and I will taunt Happy Fun Hurricane. I will ph33r |\|0 3v1l.]</i>, and was booking like hell to the NW). . . I don't give a shit. I'm more annoyed anticipating a loss of internet connectivity than worried about more wind and rain doing anything but making my car wet.<align=center>

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Maybe getting used to having to dig out after three days' heavy snowfall has made me jaded to the prospect of roughly 12-18 hours of rain. TS Isidore was, honestly, not worth writing home about, even as a "first storm" for this Yankee. Maybe I'll change my tune if I lose power for four days or have a trash can hurled through my living room window.

But from where I sit, I see a whole lot of people getting way more worked up and panicky than I honestly see a need for.

I'm not a worrier. I just deal.

Comments

[theonebob.livejournal.com]

To experience the true intensity of the storm you should go outside and lash yourself to a TV news reporter. They always seem to make it through the worst storms unscathed.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

hey, that's not a bad idea. i could even do some preliminary stumping for the WTP!

I'd offer to raise CGI awareness, but i figure there's enough hot air with Lili, and any references to "Snow" would be dismissed as "that fuckin' Yankee weirdo" talk by the locals.