Yup, it's looking pretty bad down here. Power is already flickering a bit. We've got a tornado warning on top of everything else. Looks like this thing might pass right next to us.

Roads are probably a bit too deep to make that last-minute grocery run I was hoping for. We already have 8-12 days of food bars—I was just hoping to get something more interesting.

Local Reddit is dealing with this through gallows humor and I... I kinda wanna punch them? Lots of people saying "we're all doomed!" but nobody's exactly rushing to evacuate—I haven't seen a single person say they're gonna try.

Calmer heads are saying something more like "as long as the levies don't actually *breach* and the pumps hold up, we should be fine, even if there's some spillover."

The local meteorologists and government agencies are basically still saying "stay the fuck indoors, make your preparations, and don't panic." I'm going with that for now—in fact, I'm probably going back to bed in a couple of hours.

Have already told my boss I'm probably taking PTO for the rest of the week, so at least that's one less thing to worry about.

Wish us luck. FWIW, I consulted Dawn (i.e. Peg's tarot deck) about this, and her basic opinion was "yeah, I probably scared you with that last reading*, but you're smart and you're paying attention, so you've probably got this."

(*Death, a 99 of Swords, and a 7 of Swords, plus an unnerving amount of water imagery... The funny thing is, this is BEFORE Invest 92L started forming. I had just asked her about the comic's future. :O )

Also, been looking at historical precedent. Even in Katrina, there was like a 0.4% chance of dying—and the last time the levies were breached before that, in May 1849, only Uptown and the Central Business District got flooded. (We're in Mid-City. Too close for comfort, but...) And that was before there were such things as drainage pumps.

Anyhow. We'll try not to do anything stupid, and hopefully I'll still be around on Monday to make your lives bitier for years to come. :)