Burnt Orange Report

BOR Hurricane Blogging (and other news)

By Jim Dallas

Reporting live from the Burnt Orange Weather Center (err, OK, my study carrell here at UH), I'd like to fill you in on the latest exciting hurricane news here in East Texas.

It's sunny outside albeit a little windy. It's also unusually cool for this time of year.

Local citizens are panicking, so much so that most of fellow students yawned when told about the approaching disaster. Many are making special efforts to go to the Miami - UH game at Reliant Stadium tonight in order to escape. Although the dude who sits next to me tells me he thinks its funny we're playing the "Miami Hurricanes" tonight, ironically at about the same time this beast is supposed to make landfall on the upper Texas coast.

But let me tell you, dear readers, there is absolutely nothing funny about a tropical storm packing 50 mph winds, which is so strong that it might not even be a tropical depression by the time it makes it to Houston!

In contrast, I intend to take this horrible disaster seriously, by strapping myself to the nearest palm tree and practicing my Geraldo Rivera impression.

(Seriously, though, I would be concerned about rain; Ivan is expected to basically stall out over the Houston area and dump a foot or two of rain. Which is kinda what Allison did three years ago. You know, they told me I'd either sink or swim in law school, but I didn't think they'd mean it literally!)

(Furthermore, I think this freakish weather event is a message of God written directly to me and Seabrook resident Jack Cluth not to blog about weather events being "messages from God." Of course this does not give readers the right to throw us into the lava-filled crater of a smoking volcano.)