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hsapiens
16 August 2007 @ 08:45 pm
Tropical Storms and Nominations  
So, looks as if the forecasters missed the boat a little on Tropical Storm Erin. Specifically, the Weather Channel stationed their "man on the scene" down in Corpus Christi but it came in a bit north of there and put Houston on the dirty side of the storm. For those who don't live in tropical weather territory, that means that we're on the side of the storm where the winds are coming in from over the Gulf and are thus the most rain-laden. Glad I'm on vacation because the route I usually take home was underwater this afternoon. That would have sucked but I avoided that fate. Yay!

Erin never worried me but I'll admit that Dean makes me nervous. That one looks likely to develop into a killer storm and the water temps are primed to make it deadly. Luckily, Joe will be in town for Dean so I'll have help in closing down his business, my office, and our house before evacuating if it looks like it's headed this way. That's a nice bonus over 2005's Rita fun when I got to do that all on my own.

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Thank you to whomever nominated some of my SG-1 icons for a Stargate fan award. I didn't know that the nomination period had opened - I'm not getting my memos! - and I had no idea there was room to nominate icons. I've nominated fic and videos in the past but don't recall ever seeing an icon category. That was completely unexpected. In fact, when I got the notice, I thought, "Oh dear, someone nominated the brilliant fic, Speak the Living, that [livejournal.com profile] paian wrote for me during the Teal'c ficathon and my name has accidentally been used as the author."

So, I was shocked that the noms were actually for me. I'm touched and honored. Thank you. :)
 
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tejas[identity profile] tejas.livejournal.com on August 17th, 2007 02:08 am (UTC)
*puts on Awards team member hat*

I'm wading through awards email at the moment, but if you haven't sent anything regarding this, I'll be sure to deal with it. ;-)

*takes off Awards team member hat and puts on Houstonian hat*

Ah, yeah, today was spent wondering why the devil I was at work during tropical weather. ;-) That was *after* boatingdriving through the Medical Center and blessing my Saturn SUV every three seconds. ;-)

I'm just glad we had that week or so of hot dry weather to wring a bit of moisture out of the ground. The geysers shooting up out of the storm sewers were a delightful sight, as always. I'm sure the folks working on raising the banks of Braes Bayou along MacGregor were equally delighted by it all.

And now there's Dean. Only time will tell, but I gotta say, I'd rather he made landfall here than having him go over and harass New Orleans.
Mish: DeeJ + Teal'c -- Bound Together[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on August 17th, 2007 03:06 am (UTC)
Nice hat collection!

Feel free to delete the e-mails I sent. :) I had trouble logging in using the URL in the e-mail but, of course, as soon as I sent an e-mail about it, I found a link that worked. I sent another "never mind" e-mail.

I didn't even get out of the house today. The thunder started early this morning, as I'm sure you know, and Brinkley retains his stray dog his fear of thunder so we snuggled for most of the day. My little car is low slung so I avoid driving through floods. :) I, too, am glad we had a week of drying but I'll admit the relief from the heat was welcome. I always prefer rain to broiling in the summer. Of course, now we'll have another mosquito explosion. When we worked out int he backyard a couple of weekends ago, there were so many mosquitoes that I was bitten almost a dozen times despite my wearing repellent. :|

I'd definitely rather that Dean came here than hit New Orleans. We're better equipped and we've fully recovered from Allison while they're still struggling post-Katrina. What I'd really prefer is to have some shearing winds develop, Dean gets cut to a manageable tropical storm, and then it takes a sharp northward veer and hits the drought-stricken Mississippi, Alabama, Florida panhandle, and Georgia. I have a bad feeling about Dean, though, and I'm hoping I'm wrong.
tejas[identity profile] tejas.livejournal.com on August 17th, 2007 03:09 am (UTC)
I like the way you think!

Hey, since we've got Dean, is Sam on the list as well? :-)

I hear you about the low slung car. If I still had my wagon, I'd've been seriously sweating it today. They had us 'sheltering in place' for most of the day as the campus was pretty much an island.
Mish: Ackles -- Nekkid Dean in Bed[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on August 17th, 2007 10:14 pm (UTC)
It only seems right to have a Sam storm. As long as Sam and Dean are nice, friendly, temp-busting tropical storms that don't turn around and double back on us I'm all for them. Though we really, really don't need Dean's rains. I think we handled Erin fine because we'd had that week to dry. We won't have that for Dean and that's partially why I'm concerned.

I like our neighborhood. Even though we had a lot of rain, it didn't flood much and so it was just a day to enjoy being with the dog. I really can't complain. But once I'm out of the neighborhood, there are flooding problems and my car would have been a casualty. It's only on those days that I get this city's obsession with trucks and SUVs. :)
tejas[identity profile] tejas.livejournal.com on August 17th, 2007 10:16 pm (UTC)
I'm with you. I hope whatever happens, they know soon enough to tell us to stay home from work that day. My apartment is high and dry. Between it and work... not so much. ;-)