Hurricane Fallout

[lucretius]

Fourth day without power.  Chainsaws everywhere.  Living life by rechargeable battery.

Meanwhile, I have a fabulous cute little laptoplet. And am reading a fun biography of Thomas Paine, my favorite international terrorist.

Fun fact of the day: around the era of the American revolution, the average life expectancy was 36.6 years.

Woo!

Comments

[molasses]

one word.

PacificNorthWest

[lucretius]

But then I'd have to deal with. . . umm. Manitous! And earthquakes! And people cooler than me!

[molasses]

ha.
as bloody if. a bunch of hipster goofs. earthquakes, though, yes. and an assload of rain.

[purplkat]

Bah! The last time I felt an earthquake was when I lived practically on top of San Francisco, and even those were piddly. And the last time we had an earthquake that did the kind of damage that the hurricanes have been doing was like in the '90s. (And in the city where I live now, only about an hour away from the bay area, we have -never- had an earthquake, or indeed any kind of disaster, that has done that much damage.)

BTW, I don't know if you heard, but Tempest is back. I'm on staff now, and I'm going to be put more or less in charge of trying to implement a MUX-wide TP and I would be so, so happy for some help.

[occamsnailfile]

Yikes! I know that normally the whole 'Lumberjack' theme of Nacodoches is more metaphorical. Hope things normalize to their wobbly East Texas small town regular soon.

[lucretius]

And now they have. Though all the brush still isn't cleared away. If they haven't picked it up by late next month, I'm having a Samhain bonfire.

Paine was quite remarkable

[sophia_sadek]

The way that Christians treated Paine at his death was related by Robert G. Ingersoll. His reporting on the affair does not put the pious in a positive light. It's fascinating that the Federalists allowed him to rot in prison in France and that it wasn't until Jefferson took office that he was bailed out.

Re: Paine was quite remarkable

[lucretius]

Yep. Paine had the screws put to him in a variety of ways. They gave him a farm in former Tory territory, where the election officials never let him vote. And after his death, they did their best to assassinate his character. Glad to say that he's had many comebacks. The Transcendentalists, Whitman, Ingersoll--and then later Edison pulled him back out of obscurity.

We could use a good deal more of Paine's spirit. He's the one founding father whose memory is only compromised by his failure to compromise.

[ravengirl]

I hope you're faring well now. Hope hope hope.

[lucretius]

Ayep. All is well.