A gentle breeze will leave his pants in disarray

This Hurricane Tracker is pretty cool. To watch the path of of all the hurricanes and wonder why people were ever interested in setting up camp in southeastern states.
Of course it is seemingly less "cool" when you consider that the most recent one is still active and currently somewhere near Charleston, SC. We're gonna die.
I had a really vivid dream last night that has left me worn on today. We knew that these meteoroids were coming, and that they were going to crash into earth. And we couldn't really do anything. Scientists were pretty sure we'd make it through, but there would be significant losses. I head to bed and make it to sleep. I wake up, right when it is supposed to start, and go to the window. I sit and watch as these enormous rocks, turning slow in the sky, breaking slightly and causing these bright, white explosions in the distance as entire towns were blacked out. On one hand, it was beautiful, and it was so vivid, I'm sure I'll never actually see it happen, it was at least great to see it in a dream; my take on a meteoroid on a collision course with earth is a truly fantastic site. On the other hand, it was like someone had died, exhausting, a sense of hope/helplessness, and internally terrifying. I woke up twisted and sore. All because of some dream that would have been kinda cool when I was a kid.
I've spent too much time writing. I don't know where the hurricane is.

posted by beta at 8/14/2004 09:05:00 AM