Though this storm heading our way is not very strong, folks in these parts are still Charley-shell-shocked and the path looks very similar to that of Hurricane Charley of '04.We know it'll be a lot of nothing though, since, well, I'm here. Storms have a way of threatening me but ending up chickening out at the last minute. Or, get to my former location too late to affect me. Witness the Florida storms of 2004 and my absence since I was in New Orleans, and then, Katrina hits New Orleans in 2005, but I'd already left to come back here to Florida. But they keep trying for me.
Now it's Fay. Oh she thinks she's all that 'cause she already killed a bunch of people in the Caribbean. But I say she's nothin' more than a puny windbag that will just dump a bit of rain on us. Whoopie!
My employer takes preparedness to ultra-nerdy contingency levels though. What else would you expect for the leading maker of security and protection software? They have a "Plan B" for everything! So, we'll be emailed today at 3:30 letting us know whether we will come in to work or not tomorrow. Being that the latest projections seem to put the path of Fay slightly to the west but slowly churning as it goes by may mean that we'd get a lot of rain, so they may have us take the day off. Woo Hoo!
Last year we had a TS projected to come near us and not even as close and we shut down for the day. Us cubical holders near the windows had to put all our desktop stuff in our desks and cover the computers and stuff with plastic. What a pain! We'll probably have to do the same this time.
Well it's no biggie to me, we will get paid for the day(s) off so, bring it on. I just hope Nugget doesn't get damaged, of course. My house is right on a lake, so I guess it'd kinda suck if it got flooded too. Oh, but the worst would be if the power were out for any significant amount of time. (Like more than a couple of hours!) No cooking, no refrigeration, no TV, no air conditioning! And no computer...no Internet!
I may well go insane, revert to a stone-age culture and be forced to consider cannibalism!
Me, Thok! You, dinner! Arrrgh!