It doesn’t just stop people from evacuating, it stops them from blogging. After a solid week of all Ike, all the time, I’ve had enough. I tried last night to finish my article about hurricane evaluation methodologies, only to lose an hour’s work through sheer stupidity. “Save early, save often.” And I didn’t.

I’m going to take a day or two off from blogging and just chill for a bit. Watch some anime, relax and blog about it, maybe (until I read someone’s really stupid comment somewhere, and then get pissed enough to write again). I’ll get back to that article, and I’ve still got some thoughts about folks returning to Galveston, supply distributions, what the city pays for gasoline, and of course, the aforementioned methodologies.

In the meantime, my sudden burst of activity has caused a slew of folks to link to me, and I’d like to give a shout out to them:
Dr. Melissa Clouthier at Information Polination (Hey Doc, tell your mom I said “yes”*)
Houston Press’ Hair Balls
Dick Stanley, at The Texas Scribbler
Brendan Loy at Weathernerd
Brian Neudorff at WX-MAN’s Perspective

Thanks, all of you.

12:20 PM CST From my mom via IM, “Do we really need to witness the last moments of Geraldo’s life. And where’s Anderson Cooper?” I’m howling. See where I get my smart ass sense of humor?

With Geraldo and Dolecifino both on the Island, and expecting the surge to be even worse than it was, I really thought we had a shot at being rid of these two. Only way it could have been better would be if Chris Matthews were there to describe the kind of leg tingle he got from watching water come over the seawall. 🙂

Update: Additional referrers, as I dig through my logs and find them:
Trent Seibert at Texas Watchdog