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I faxed a lost cat flyer to the library in Newton, and the next morning they called to tell me they'd gotten it; and also that they'd talked to people who have been seeing a little black cat in the area where I lost mine… -
in other news
I bought a car today. I've been driving a 10-year-old Ford Escort, and it's been a pretty good car. It took me to Georgia and back with no troubles just a week ago. But I had been thinking idly about a new car for a y… -
Ike
Looks bad for Texas as things stand right now, but my area is still within the cone of the projected path. The storm's still too far out for them to really know where it's going to land on the US coast; could still be a… -
oh #$%&
So I got to visit with my sister for a couple of days, see where she works and meet a couple of her colleagues, and meet my niece's fiance, and at no time did I regret evacuating...until just after lunch time yesterday, … -
Evacuation
I bugged out Sunday morning, a couple of hours after they opened both sides of I-49 to northbound traffic. So I got to drive up the wrong side of the interstate, which wasn't actually as odd as I'd thought it would be. … -
Four
A couple of days ago I was thinking that since Hurricane Gustav won't make landfall until Tuesday, Monday night at the earliest, then after work on Friday would be soon enough to gas up the car. Silly me; every gas stat… -
Gustav
They keep pushing back the estimated time of landfall on the Gulf coast of the US as the storm creeps past Jamaica. That's kind of disturbing, given that slow-moving storms have more time over water to intensify. As th… -
Humberto
Forty-eight hours ago there was a loosely organized tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico. Twenty-four hours ago, Hurricane Humberto made landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border and proceeded to rain out over Texas…
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