Can I Tell You How Much This Sucks?

Google Street Map - map-generator.net

The Gleaner, the major newspaper in Jamaica, is blogging hurricane developments. My mom got all her preparedness-related materials ready as best as can be. Thankfully she’s in a very solidly constructed house and inland and elevated where there shouldn’t be flooding and the like. Still, when a storm bigger than the entire island is coming right at you… sheesh.

Digg This!

19 Responses to “Can I Tell You How Much This Sucks?”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 dangerblond

    I lived in Jamaica as a child, and as a grown up, I live in New Orleans. My best wishes to your mother. Having been through it, I have to tell you that communications are going to be down for an insanely long time, get ready.

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 P6

    We’re tinkering with the global warming settings so those hurricanes they head for Mississippi instead of Jamaica. I think i’t going to take another hurricane season or two, sit tight.

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 White Whale

    It may not mean much, but I will be praying for your mom. Katrina made communication a real problem, but hang in there.

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 Diamond LeGrande

    Best of luck to your mom, though it sounds like she wisely has left as little to luck as possible.

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 Cricket

    Oliver, I will keep her and well, the whole island in my prayers; that the damage will be minimal and no loss of life or injuries. I am glad she is prepared. I have not lived through a hurricane or even a tropical storm, but
    the thought of it is scary.

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 Jeff Fecke

    Oliver, best of luck to your mom, I think all of our thoughts are with Jamaica right now.

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 Organic George

    Hopes and prayers to you and yours.

  8. Gravatar Icon 8 SpiderJ

    Good luck and good health to your mom and the island.

  9. Gravatar Icon 9 King Quaker

    Looks like your Mom is in the Montpelier/Cambridge area.I grew up in the small village of Roehampton (near Anchovy) which is in th same general vicinity.
    So like you I am watching and worrying.

  10. Gravatar Icon 10 SaveFarris

    Best wishes to you and your Mom.

  11. Gravatar Icon 11 Duros62

    Ev’ting gwan be irie, bra’

    I don’t pray, per se, but I’m pulling for ya.

  12. Gravatar Icon 12 Thom

    Just a word and a wish for your mom’s safety, Oliver. We’ll be checking in…

  13. Gravatar Icon 13 tomboyms

    Good luck to your mom, Oliver. Hurricanes suck. BAD.

  14. Gravatar Icon 14 Wilbur

    Okay people, at precisely 4:00 pm, EDT, everybody face Jamaica and 1, 2, 3, BLOW!

  15. Gravatar Icon 15 calling all toasters

    Good luck to you and your mom.

  16. Gravatar Icon 16 Gravypan

    I’m sending good thoughts from my family to your’s, Oliver. Hope she and everybody else on the island make it through this.

  17. Gravatar Icon 17 Oliver Willis

    Thanks everyone!

  18. Gravatar Icon 18 R2K

    : (

    R2K

  19. Gravatar Icon 19 Jack Larson

    Aye, best of luck to you, your mom and everyone else in the path of Dean.

Leave a Reply




Recent Comments

  • merl: 3 generations of treason. prescott and the nazis, bush 41 and Iran contra, chickengeorges blowing the cover of...
  • merl: I thought about grandpa bush, myself.
  • merl: he works for clown hall now? damn, that’s pathetic.
  • merl: when all the other guy can do to cover up his ignorance is yell, you’ve already won. I tell the FIL that...
  • Bruce: I just got separated and am about to be divorced. Among the factors involved were the severity of my work...

Disclaimer

The views on this site are mine and mine alone, they do not reflect the views of my employer, Media Matters for America

Privacy Policy