It's another night of intense rain, high winds, and tornado warnings. The remnants on Hurricane Delta, the 30th named storm this year, are blowing over Atlanta even as I write this. On a scale of 1 to 10, the fear factor on this one is about a 7.
It's not that we don't have things to worry about. The coronavirus pandemic, the end of constitutional democracy in America, climate change. So far, no one's seen the murder hornets they were talking about earlier this year, which only brings up the question, where are they hiding? Oh, according to Yahoo News, venomous caterpillars are swarming in Virginia, so there's that.
I don't mean to be an alarmist and I don't let fear dominate my thoughts, but when you're watching the Georgia-Tennessee football game, one second left in the first half, Georgia with the ball on the Tennessee one-year line, and just as the ball is snapped, the Emergency Broadcast System cuts in with its raspy, electric beep and a voice-over announces that a tornado warning is in effect your entire county, well. that gets your attention (Georgia didn't score on the play, but I didn't find that out until 5 minutes later).
So far (knock on wood), I haven't lost power. Yet.
The rain is forecast to last until about 5:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, and then we'll have to deal with the next scary emergency 2020 has up its sleeve.
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