Blinky
The power has blinked off twice in the last half hour. The first time it happened I thought I heard a transformer blow, but that might have just been my imagination. Even though we haven’t had a measurable amount of rain yet, the gusty wind might cut out our power before the worst of the storm gets here.
Apart from the threat of losing my precious, precious internet, the storm is so far a few notches below an ordinary summer thunderstorm, as scariness goes.
The real excitement tonight has been on CNN. Look who’s in Beaumont:
Anderson Cooper, my favorite real* journalist, is less than 100 miles away from me! Not only is he reporting from a city directly in Rita’s path, but at the time we were watching he was ANCHORING THE NATIONAL NEWSCAST from a wind-battered sidewalk in Beaumont. Hard. Core.
How is this man still single, I ask you? HOW?
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* a designation which excludes Tina Fey and Jon Stewart
Tags: Hurricane Rita
September 24th, 2005 at 9:38 am
I love Anderson Cooper….though I’m shamed to admit I first discovered him on the reality show The Mole
September 24th, 2005 at 10:43 pm
Yes! Me too! That’s where I first saw him, and he was at least half the reason I watched every episode of that show. (Until the third season, when Anderson left and that asshat Stephen Baldwin kept hanging around…)
I didn’t mention it in my post because I, too, am ashamed. Heh.