A band of showers fell on my house about an hour ago.  Now things are calm, but soon major bands of rain will fall.  The wait is over.

The last projection I have shows that Hurricane Fay will make landfall sometime early tomorrow morning well to the south of where I live, then move East of my location.

Thank goodness the storm is minimal.

And a shot from Google Earth shows again just how large the storm is.  It’s huge for sure.

And, the National Hurricane Center’s website is back online.  That is good.  Information is key to saving lives.  And thanks too to the people there who go about their work seriously.  Gosh we need to give them more funding.  Course, that is beyond the power of the people, we leave such stuff to Congress.  And there, pork barrell spending is what occurs more often than not.

I guess it is stupid to believe that Congress could ever invest in research, innovation, and long-range development of new technologies.  Nope.  That is not what Congress is about.  It is about getting votes.  Nothing else.  Gosh, it’s time Americans changed that.  Maybe we should just throw lots of them out of office, course, we will get another crop all the same.  What happened to caring about this country? What happened to public service?  What happened to the American Dream?

Excuse me, I know, it ended with Harry Truman.