My roommate says she could see the smoke from the one to the west of the Beltway from her school. And friends from the affected areas are posting pictures on Facebook. Oh dear.

I drank a pot of coffee and am FREAKING OUT for no good reason.

jesus h! you ARE surrounded! also, you're only like an hour to the ocean, right?
I just finished this book about the Galveston hurricane of Sept8, 1900, and I've been looking at at ton of maps and drawings of the hurricane path and old pictures of the destruction- it's hypnotizingly horrific. I can't stop.

It's really just formalizing the long-standing convention.