Well, folks, it seems I was a bit cavalier in my assessment of the threat posed to us here at Pendragon Hold by this insane tropical storm/wannabe hurricane known to us as Fay. If we had only named it Fred, the thing would have done what it was going to do and been done with it. Now here we are sitting here wondering if she's gonna catch some Atlantic, power up or not, and come under, over, or on top of us. It seems that at a bare minimum we are going to have a lot of water dumped on us, which at the very least will flood our dirt road, and the wind gusts might very well take out our power this time. Ever lose your power in this kind of heat and humidity for an extended period of time? You don't want to know. Even though I have tried to put away everything I think the expected winds might want to play with, I have no idea how well what remains will perform in steady high winds and/or pretty bad gusts, Several years ago we had at least one very close near miss which buffeted us with gusts of no more than perhaps 60 mph, but sustained winds of 75 or over might prove to be a deal breaker, and there's always those rouge tornadoes that like to tag along in these storms. One of THOSE hits, and it's game over.

In the mean time, I just wanted to make sure that you guys didn't misunderstand the chant we want you to mutter under your breath for the next two days. It wasn't "Fay, Fay, come today...", it was "Fay, Fay, go AWAY....."...........AWAY, get it? THANKS! Just making sure.........

In the meantime, this is THE Michael, reporting from the front lines, wishing you all a dry and.........wait.......what's that on the horizon....?.......no......I need to rub my eyes........what is tha.....no.....NO.......IT CAN'T BE.......it's......IT'S GODZI.......................................................... ............ ...... .... . .