Mean Jeanne

Well, boys and girls, Jeanne is on the way and ready to make landfall somewhere North of us tonight. We're battened back down, same as before (for review) and essentially ready for what-may-come.



The latest news is that while this is not an incredibly powerful hurricane, she has more consistent power than Frances did. And more importantly for those of us in Broward County, she's much more powerful in the South. Frances, by the time she reached us, had that funny shape with the severely weakened bottom end.

So this hurricane is faster and not any more powerful overall, but in terms of geography, she's going to wreak more havoc on us.

And in consideration of that, do whatever you do when a friend is headed for trouble: pray, send us good vibes, bake a cake in our honor, ship us a little spot of your extra karma. Whatever it is. Just in our general direction, please, because we're surrounded by several million folks who'll need it, too.

In the meantime, I'm still planning on starting work on Monday. And if I can, I'm still going to ride my bike there. Once I figure out how to keep a dress shirt looking good after it's been stuffed in a backpack.

It's amazing how this hurricane thing works. It blows through, throws a bunch of crap all over the place, and then zing the sun is back out, it's 95 degrees. Which would be nice if you're on vacation, but when you've got a huge mess to clean up, it sucks. Also, it means that (as long as there's power) you go right back to whatever you were doing before the storm came.