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Jul. 5th, 2005 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynAll 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.
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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Date: 2005-07-05 07:59 pm (UTC)-M
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:04 pm (UTC)I mean, I know I can still volunteer, but I've got a paid job at another organization now. Unless I were to spend all my vacation on it, I wouldn't be able to volunteer except after work or on weekends, and a disaster services hitch is three weeks on a job like this. It's just not the same.
I feel like a horse without a bridle.