On the hurricane things.

[avrelia]

We were extremely lucky – both because we went on our long-planned trip to Canada before the hurricane, and that our (rented, but still) house was not damaged by winds or water. The electricity was out for some time, but it was back by the time were back (Monday morning). But the whole thing was pretty scary - how big, and how random the destruction (or disruption of regular life) was. Some households in our town didn't have the electricity until Friday next week, and in the neighbouring town – beyond Labor Day. The cleaning continues, and really the damage was pretty minor, comparing other natural disasters in other places. It is very... unsettling, how transient our world is. One certainly begins appreciate post-apocalyptic fiction like this - at least the can be nothing worse than an apocalypse, and after one the worst is supposed to be over. Was there ever good old times? When nothing changed and everyone lived quietly ever after? Maybe in the Neolithic era? (sure, not long, but quietly until being eaten by a sabre-toothed tiger). Or maybe we just don't know anything about it, and just suppose things didn't change as fast and randomly. They certainly didn't have electric power outages that would have left them without Internet for weeks... Or did they? See, we just don't really know.

Anyway. We are okay. Our stuff and the house is okay, and one always has to be prepared for a sabre-toothed tigers' attack.