« The elephant in the room is a herd | Main | Plague play » RitaIt's sunny and hot in Austin, though we're starting to see the clouds thrown forward by Hurricane Rita as she approaches the coast. The only real effect of storm preparations I've seen is in the grocery stores: our local HEB had no water on the shelves when I was last there, and no bread. It was packed, too, with many dutifully buying a week's supplies, as instructed by local news anchors and the experts standing somewhere, invisible, behind 'em. It hit us as we left the store that we couldn't imagine a scenario for Austin that would require a week's supply of food. Knowing we'd be busy this year, we'd already decided to sell our ACLFest tickets. We were glad to find a buyer - it's uncomfortably hot and humid today, more so that we expected this late in the month, and tomorrow we'll be slammed by wind and rain, though we'll miss the full force of the hurricane after its right turn (an earlier path projection had it reaching Austin, possibly as a cat 1 hurricane). I'm still not making any bets on landfall or path. I figure at this point we can officially classify Rita as Texas weather, therefore completely unpredictable. jon posted this at 10:27 AM |
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