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one thing i remember vividly about reading flannery o'connor's short stories in high school was having our attention directed to her focus on the sky. whenever flannery talks about the sky, the teacher says, you know Something's Coming -- and indeed so it was. and of course usually when she talked about the sky, she talked about how clear and bright and blue it was; storm clouds never gathered in flannery o'connor, but damn if the storms didn't come anyway.
which is on my mind lately because yesterday and today both, the weather here has been mild and pleasant -- low to mid 60's, sometimes a fair breeze, and a sky so blue, as mr. james earl jones once said in a film, that you have to shade your eyes. it's just painfully beautiful.
and isabel's supposed to be here -- not the fringes, mind you, but the storm itself -- at 2 a.m. thursday night/friday morning.
the LJ-less terri has urged me to come up and stay in her basement, but i think if i'm going to get out of here, i'm going to go west. to my parents', i guess. it's a bit of a drive, but at 3:15 tomorrow when i'm done with classes, if things look like they're going to get really bad i can turn off the lights and get in the car and be out of the direct path before she gets here.
or i could be overreacting. but, i mean, on the current NHC map? where they project the path of the storm? there's a dot where i live. this isn't a general-area thing, or, like someone said, it might hit the city an hour away from me (which, in hurricane terms, is plenty close, thanksverymuch) -- this is, they're expecting it to be here.
so i may or may not be skipping town for the weekend.
which is on my mind lately because yesterday and today both, the weather here has been mild and pleasant -- low to mid 60's, sometimes a fair breeze, and a sky so blue, as mr. james earl jones once said in a film, that you have to shade your eyes. it's just painfully beautiful.
and isabel's supposed to be here -- not the fringes, mind you, but the storm itself -- at 2 a.m. thursday night/friday morning.
the LJ-less terri has urged me to come up and stay in her basement, but i think if i'm going to get out of here, i'm going to go west. to my parents', i guess. it's a bit of a drive, but at 3:15 tomorrow when i'm done with classes, if things look like they're going to get really bad i can turn off the lights and get in the car and be out of the direct path before she gets here.
or i could be overreacting. but, i mean, on the current NHC map? where they project the path of the storm? there's a dot where i live. this isn't a general-area thing, or, like someone said, it might hit the city an hour away from me (which, in hurricane terms, is plenty close, thanksverymuch) -- this is, they're expecting it to be here.
so i may or may not be skipping town for the weekend.
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