Burningbird
This morning, at the crack of dawn, I braved the heat and humidity to walk down to see the flooding on Chief of Love Road. A police car blocked one lane into the road, but folks could get around it to reach the non-flooded homes. However, cars were parked over the sidewalks in order to […]
The Ogeechee river still hasn’t fully crested yet in the Savannah area. All the roads around my home are now closed, either completely or to thru traffic. We’re not at risk of flooding, but others aren’t as lucky. River records were broken in Ellabell and Richmond Hill. And this with us getting only about 10 […]
My Dad, who was a Republican, would have liked Tim Walz. He would have liked Walz’s plain speaking. He would have admired his bluntness, especially when Walz says that a woman’s right to choose is none of our damn business. He would have liked it because that’s exactly what my Dad used to say. When […]
Well, we lucked out. Debby was slow moving, which wasn’t good. But it degraded over land. Better yet, it grabbed and incorporated a dry air mass that kept most of the heavier overnight rain away. We lost power, so I don’t have an accurate rain measurement from my system. However, according to the University of […]
Previous places I’ve lived have had emergencies that come up quickly and are usually over quickly. I’ve lived through a major ice storm in Grande Isle, Vermont, earthquakes in Washington and California, blizzards in Washington and Massachusetts, even Mount St. Helens, in Yakima, Washington. A hurricane, though, is a different beastie. It’s like living in […]