Which Past Was Hers

Hurricane Beryl is now over the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to increase in intensity as it crosses the warm water. The storm has taken a track more to the north than previously observed, and is now forecast to make landfall somewhere on the Texas coast between Houston and Corpus Christi instead of the southenmost tip of Texas.

After making landfall, current projections show the storm tracking toward the northeast, crossing the Mississippi near New Madrid, Missouri.  That trajectory would miss Atlanta, but those storm-track projections are always subject to change.

Earlier this morning, I head the unmistakable sound of a tree falling - the cracking of wood accompanied by the thrashing of leaves and branches. Didn't hear the final "thump" as it hit the ground, though. I was surprised that the power stayed on (falling trees around here usually tend to hit power lines), and I drove around the neighborhood but didn't see any fallen tree. This will be another one of life's many mysteries - if a falling tree makes a sound but no one sees it fall. . .