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Oh, don't worry, mars is still worse. Particulate dust/sand is amazing and terrible, even beyond the whole unbreathable atmosphere thing.

Yeah... might be asking some family living in the area if they want to come a bit further north for a bit.

... or visit family in the north east for a few days/weeks.

Pretty sure most of it actually has to do with that specifically being for atlantic hurricanes. They tend to ramp hardest once they're in the caribbean or the gulf.

Um. Yeaaahh.

Hurricane Irma is so strong it's starting to show up on seismometers in the Caribbean -- equipment designed to measure earthquakes.

Incidentally, currently tied or about to pass the top spot for strongest atlantic hurricane on record.

Huh. Has irma been confirmed as a likely (relatively) heavy rain storm? Last I remember hearing anything on that front it looked like its big problem (insofar as a storm that might hit cat 5 and will probably hit at 3-4 goes) was winds more than particularly heavy rainfall.

Though eh, isp. It can help (for a given definition of help, considering it more means it knocks over your neighbors' houses instead of yours) for a hurricane to hit opposite coast of you, but it often enough only matters so much. Florida is neither terribly wide nor terribly tall. Buffer is something that happens more to other places, ha.

Does hit me for all harvey was a complete bastard and irma's probably aiming at me, I think somewhere in my heart they've made me a bit more relaxed. Basically a decade without any really major hurricanes hitting was making the murphy worshipper hiding in a corner of my soul kinda' jittery. Sky god back to trying to kill the south east, things are getting back to normal.

Last night, family asks, "hey, think you could drop a transmission for me?" I go, to more bluntly paraphrase, "hell if I know, would have to go look, try." Cause I had fuck all knowledge or experience with whatever was involved.

Morning comes. Go look. Look up how-to, what the hell the transmission actually is (didn't remember, I don't work with engines enough to retain what the blazes anything is except the battery and various liquid input holes), what's needed and how long it'd probably take, risks, etc.

Look at a few different step by steps. Stare for a while. Under two hour job if you know what you're doing and are in relatively good shape -- neither describes me, the latter emphatically doesn't describe said family, in the "doctor has told you to not fucking do this shit repeatedly" sense, and the former conditionally due to senility. Takes tools we don't seem to have (have jack! Need transmission jack or adapter, which if we do I can't find and is needed to reduce chance of maiming and/or critical repair failure). Heavily recommends a second person there that would be able to do more than call an ambulance and/or have a heart attack/stroke and die if something went wrong. Happens to be the one of the more common operations that ends up ruining a vehicle and/or its transmission if you screw up any one of two or three different steps.

Like. Good bloody goddamn hell. A) No. Get someone here that has at least somewhat more of an idea of what they're doing and I'll help even if it's fuckstupid o'clock during the day (I.e. any point after about six am and before around 7 pm, at the moment). B) Please stop trying to do shit that runs an unnecessarily high chance of wrecking things, just because you're too fucking impatient to wait a few days. C) For the nth goddamn time please stop trying to get yourself and/or me maimed and/or killed by trying to get things done neither of us have any business trying to do.

Hey, there's video. You can hear it yourself. Delivery wasn't very good... sounded less like humor and more like exasperation, really. Also is georgia. Pretty understandable why his bosses would be just a wee bit sketchy of keeping around someone caught making statements like that on the clock. Poor PR in an area with pretty good cause to be sensitive about that kind of thing.

Can't really tell if he was fired, though. Seems like every news thing I looked at getting to said video alternated between saying he was fired or retired. The recommendation was firing, but whether it actually happened I couldn't tell with what looking I did.