⚓ Birthdays and Hurricanes / September 2020
Yours Truly in a Swamp
“The mail, that great link between minds, today penetrates into the heart of the wilderness."
~ Alexis de Tocqueville / 1805 - 1859
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Only to tell me it was storming badly and going to get worse. And neither it nor I could do a thing, but maybe run out in it and wave our hands.
Then the building's alarm took up the screech and would neither stop nor explain what we were to do.
By now I was up trying to find tv or radio news. Not easily done at 4am, in the heart of Louisiana's Great Mother Swamp.
Dallas CBS-tv was the best I could find. That or local ten O'clock news repeats. The repeat news said Hurricane Laura was coming and might kill me. Dallas said it was already here and we will see.
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My windows are huge offering a wide expanse of sky normally lovely for relaxing and gathering cotton. Tonight's ambient lighting shows horizontal rain.
"It was storming more'n a hundred hatchet-bearing Carry Nations at a hundred Dew Drop Inns," L. A. Norma said.
Eventually Diana on the ninth floor began Facebooking the topic ~ a sure sign ~ like Fascism's early sightings ~ that it was already here doing damage.
No fire engine sirens wa-heed into range, but later I was told they answered the call and hushed the alarm. The walls did not fall, and I shut off the phone and went back to bed.
The burgers were good, the service strained, the crowd friendly, and for dessert Root Beer Ice Cream Floats, what the Froststops of earlier Birthdays called a Purple Cow. 
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