Apparently, get her to follow a fellow. Remember Jose'? That crazy, drunk hurricane that has been wandering around in the Atlantic for the last three weeks? Yeah, him. As it would happen, something about the weather systems he's dragging along behind him in his ramblings are going -- oops, check that -- are projected to suck Maria up in his wake, right up the Atlantic seaboard.
The top track is Jose. The bottom track is Maria, with the gray areas being the cone. That is, the potential path. When she finally does make landfall, she is expected to be much weaker. That's a good thing.
I'm so thankful Florida and Texas will be spared a second blow. My friend Angie in Key West just got her electricity back today. Some of my friends in Texas don't even have new drywall up yet, because their fame work is still damp. Everyone is still in the process of rebuilding. Cody posted this picture of the stuff from their clean up efforts
This is what they weren't able to salvage. If you drive down a random street pretty much anywhere in Southeast Texas right now, it all looks like this. And yet, so many have it worse. We will keep those people Maria is pounding right now in what has become an almost constant prayer this summer:
Oh, Christ whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at thy word
Who walked upon the foaming deep
And calm amidst its rage did sleep
Oh hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea.
Navy Hymn, by William Whiting
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