Hurricanes and Turnaround Times

Plus: The Interior Gaze starts next Tuesday!

Well, I survived the hurricane. Many others did not. Many lost everything.

It’s my third hurricane— I know many of you have been through more than that, and some of you are facing extreme losses from Hurricane Helene. This month I will be donating 10% of membership fees from September to several mutual aid groups for those impacted by Helene. I’ll post those donations within the next week.

Watching the Helene approach was a surreal experience. Classes were cancelled last Tuesday and many folks in Tallahassee evacuated. I stayed, mostly because my cat Edna is terrified of traveling and I live on the second floor. I knew it was a risk, especially as I watched Helene develop into a massive system larger than the entire state of Florida. Many of the spaghetti models (a silly term for the squiggly lines projecting a hurricane’s path) predicted that Helene would make landfall about 50 miles south of town, and the eye would pass directly through. I can’t even remember which day she came— ah— …