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Debby is coming to town

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date August 4, 2024

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Debby is a hell of a bad name for a hurricane. I can imagine it on Facebook:

Marked safe from Debby

Nope.

Anyway, we don’t know how it will be. We know Savannah is on the path. We know we will be getting some winds, but not especially strong winds. And we know the biggest problem will be rain.

At this point in time, we’re expecting 10 inches, 15 inches, 20 inches, or possibly 30. Regardless, with the other bad rains we’ve had the last few weeks, we will have street flooding. And depending on where Debby plants her butt, we could be looking at some coastal flooding.

Stay tuned.

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Adding comments again

I’m tentatively adding back comment capability to Burningbird. It already exists if you access the Burningbird Mastodon account (@bosslady@burningbird.net@mastodon.social). If you reply to a Mastodon post, it shows up here as a comment. And if I reply, it shows up in Mastodon.

But not everyone has Mastodon. However, I’m also not sure how willing folks are to comment on weblogs. It’s not like the old days, where we had some pretty amazing conversations in our weblogs. Most discussion now happens in social media, such as Facebook, or Threads, or Mastodon, or whatever.

Still, as long as I’m not overrun with sp*m like the last time I turned comments on, we’ll see how it goes.

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Goodbye Joe, Hello Kamala

A whole lot changed since my last defense of President Biden. Last week he decided to step down from his re-election attempt and put all his support behind his VP, Kamala Harris.

Democrats came together behind Kamala Harris in enthusiastic numbers I haven’t seen in a long, long time. Within two days, she had enough delegation support to win the Democratic primary. I suspect by the time the convention rolls around, she’ll have everyone’s support.

I am sad that President Biden had to end his campaign, but ultimately, he sacrificed his ambitions for the country, and he did the right thing: he gave us a candidate we can ALL embrace.

And I want to go down on record as saying I want to be adopted by the Harris/Emhoff family.