Another god-damn hurricane has figured out how to reach Atlanta. Here we go again.

Not only that, but it failed at its primary task and totally missed Mar-a-Lago, where Agent Orange was hunkered down riding out the storm.

Granted, Nicole should be downgraded to a tropical depression by the time it reaches Atlanta tomorrow, and the primary risk will be copious rainfall and flash flooding, not tree-toppling winds.  But still this late-season storm feels eerily similar to 2020's Hurricane Zeta which nearly destroyed my home, dropping a massive poplar through my roof.

Hopefully, Nicole will be like the so-called Red Wave - or Red Tsunami to some pundits - and never materialize in any significant form.  Since I last posted here, Wisconsin, one of the four, remaining seats that will determine control of the Senate, has been called for the Republicans, so the GOP now has 49 seats and the Democrats 48.  As I write, there are three remaining undeclared seats - Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia.   Incumbent Mark Kelly (D) seems to have a comfortable lead in Arizona while Adam Laxalt (R) has a slimmer lead in Nevada, but both states are still considered "too early to call."  But if the current trends hold, the score will be Republicans 50, Democrats 49 with Georgia left to determine control of the Senate.

And Georgia is heading to a December 6 run-off election between Rev. Raphael Warnock and former Georgia Bulldog running back Hershel Walker.  Georgia law requires a run off if no candidate in an election gets 50% of the vote.  Fun fact - that law is rooted in Jim Crow racism, and was enacted to make sure that no Black candidate would win public office, even if that candidate had unanimous backing by the Black community.  Ironically, the law has now forced a run off between two African-American candidates, each of whom received more votes that the entire population of Georgia at the time the law was passed.

What else? Oh, the Montreal post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor plays tonight at Atlanta's Variety Playhouse, where I've seen them at least twice before.  I didn't buy tickets to tonight's show, but even though it's not sold out, I'm not going because of. . . the weather?  Yeah, that's my excuse, I'm not going because of Nicole.  The forecast has a 70 to 80% chance of rain between 7:00 and 11:00 p.m., and who wants to get caught in a flash flood or gridlock traffic?  

The truth of the matter is I'm probably not going because of my mental state, but admitting that out loud will cause me to examine said mental state and what should be done about it, so instead, let's just say it's the weather and leave it at that.