At some point you just have to say “fuck this” and go for a walk anyway. I’m sick and tired of sitting around waiting for the rain to stop. Of course, prudence dictates that I stay on the pavement but it’s high time to be steppin’ out regardless. So off I went.

Things started off well enough. A few light sprinkles when I left the house but not even enough to warrant opening the umbrella. Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but it seems that once I get a goodly distance from the shelter of home the skies open up and dispense their fury in a cascade of frothing rainwater. That’s the way it went down this morning.

Anyway, the umbrella kept me mostly dry from the knees up. I have three pairs of shoes I hike in and now they are are all soaking wet. A couple days of sunshine would remedy that, but alas, rumor has it that yet another typhoon is approaching and this one might be Yolanda-esque.

Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Yolanda, was one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded. On making landfall, Haiyan devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines.^[1] It is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record,^[2] killing at least 6,300 people in that country alone.^[3] In terms of JTWC-estimated 1-minute sustained winds, Haiyan is tied with Meranti for being the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record. In January 2014, bodies were still being found.^[4]

Here’s hoping those rumors are nothing more than fear-mongering hyperbole.

And in an odd quirk of coincidence, this was me on August 2, 2016:

Life’s a dance I suppose. And Christopher Walken can dance! Enjoy.