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Knowing and caring are two different things MSH, and storm chasers tend to not have much of the latter to give.

E: Ah, and it looks like it's started raining over here in the panhandle. Was wondering if that was going to start tonight or wait a day or three.

Somethin' folks might be interested in. Normally don't really look at reddit, but that's got stuff comin' in pretty quick. Looks like we're getting first official-ish damage reports; buildings wrecked (no shit) in rockport, some folks that couldn't or wouldn't get away may be trapped

Which means exactly jack nothing that close to that strong of a hurricane's eye, mind.

They're... probably not leaving. Like, where they're at right now, if that car gets out from under cover it's probably going to start doing acrobatics. Maybe it's got some hella' mods of some sort on it, but...

The car is inside a car wash building apparently, which is decent cover. It's squat and heavy. And a car can't take impacts all that well, but at least it'll hit that instead of you.

Eh, it can make a difference, just only so much of one. Cat 1 or 2 or so and I wouldn't see it as sketchy as I do at th'mo' (hell, I've been outside in winds at those levels before, if far enough inland a lot of the worst of it was mitigated even with the winds going as strong), but... that ain't a cat 1 or 2. Or 3. Hit'll transfer through a vehicle even if it doesn't puncture, winds like that can take down just about anything civilian if it hits it the right way, etc., etc.

That close to a cat 4 eyewall isn't so much dice rolling as attempting suicide, frankly. Was tempted enough to try looking but I'm kinda' relieved I can't.

Better not be intolerance. I ate nothing yesterday that I don't eat and enjoy often.

Imma go with an undetectable bug for now.

... depending on exactly what sort of feeling like shit it is, there's more than stomach problems on the table. I had something similar happen to me a ways back that rapidly got bad enough I ended up in the ER. Turned out it was a kidney stone, and if something's off/hurts enough your body starts trying to expel as much as it can in hopes of making it stop. Looke and felt like food poisoning kicked up a notch, just... wasn't. Hopefully that ain't it, 'cause bloody hell it sucks. Had a chunk of me took out about the size of a softball at one point from surgery, and recovery from that (all better part of a year of it combined) got knocked down to number 2 in my lifetime's pain records that day.

Any case, getting increasingly frustrating lately to be as messed up as I am physically and otherwise, particularly on top of being broke. Shit like tex going down, family needing more help than I'm managing, and there's just. Not much I can figure out to do, that I'm not going to be incapable of doing outright or likely unable to maintain long enough to matter. And what little money I'd have to give is both little and the entirety of the financial cushion I have that isn't family. Been making for some pretty shitty days the last few weeks. All can do is hope I trip over somethin' that makes things better, I guess.

Anger at events et al have been giving some unusual degree of motivation, but the problem there is that anger makes me feel even shittier than normal, so it's a two steps forward two to two and a half back kind of thing.

Still, there's some folks a 12-18 hour or so drive from me about to have an even shittier time of things than I am, so... best of wishes to 'em.

See, the thing is, though, is that joe's not being pardoned on what the state convicted him of. Trump literally can't pardon that -- presidential pardon extends to federal crimes and no further. He's being pardoned of the contempt of court charge he ate when the appeals (iirc, or somethin') hit the federal level. Whatever the state hit him with is still there, whatever else they feel like hitting him with is still there, etc., so on.

E: Amusingly goddamn enough, a good chunk of what's going on related to that is a state's rights issue, and trump is attempting to take a piss on them. Gods alive, this shit.