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[camwyn]

All the stuff in the news about Hurricane or Tropical Storm or Whatever Cindy has left me wanting to yell 'Marsha Marsha Marsha!', even though it's the wrong Brady-name. There, I've said it.

More importantly, it's made me realize... this is the first hurricane season in six years when I haven't been hovering in front of a television or news feed of some kind, cursing when I didn't hear a weather report. I'm not responsible for marking anything on a map, or opening a new fund to hold hurricane-related money, or anything like that. I have no chance of winding up in a smelly hotel in Louisiana for three weeks at a stretch, or being asked to drive a huge clumsy truck over a thousand miles, or...

It's so weird to see hurricane season from a civilian's point of view.

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[camwyn]

Not really. Last year, or maybe the year before (pretty sure it was last year, tho) I posted something about how I was vaguely disturbed by my eagerness to get out into disaster work because in order to help people that directly in that way, something very, very bad had to happen to them first. As soon as I saw the projection map for Cindy my first thought was 'ooooh-'

And then I stopped myself, because it isn't right to be enthusiastic any more when you can't be part of the relief force.