While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[TheLizardKing]

It's raining here, so I don't have anything to do but sit inside and kick my dogs.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I hope that is a figure of speech. -_-

 

[Symphony D.]

Cool your heels.

 

[TheLizardKing]

I hope that is a figure of speech. -_-

I mean, I imagine it would be.

EDIT: But seriously. It's raining here. I'm not a fan.

 

[Eltain]

Why not zoidberg NES?

Edit: Yay my house did not get evacuated.

edit2: Yay the hurricane is going to reach here (as a massive barometric depression, not a hurricane) on Hallowween.

 

[Thlayli]

Five houses in my town were swept right out to sea.

Which is kind of cool for salvage divers, actually.

But I digress. We are plunged into the 19th century for several days...who knows when power will be restored.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Best of luck to all of you.

 

[TheLizardKing]

My neighborhood is going to be out of power for at least a week. Thank God for backup generators. -.-

 

[Luckymoose]

North King and I are doing NaNoWriMo this year, is anyone else?

 

[Crezth]

I've always wanted to do NaNoWriMo but I lack the focus let alone acumen to do it. :<

 

[Grandkhan]

I would, but the story I was going to write already has two chapters already written so it doesn't count and I couldn't do anything until the 11th anyway, so I figured I'd wait till next year.

 

[Optical]

For the information of the uninformed: what's NaNoWriMo?

 

[Azale]

For the information of the uninformed: what's NaNoWriMo?

National Novel Writing Month

google man

 

[Optical]

...Oh. Should have got that.

 

[Daftpanzer]

Thoughts for my comrades stricken by frankenstorm... Doesn't look like fun :/ I've been to NY a couple of times so I'm quite shocked to see some of the pictures coming out. Wishing you guys all the best.

NaNoWriMo, damn that always takes me by surprise. I always say 'next year'.

 

[SouthernKing]

300 miles inland, the storm did pretty much nothing. I hear New Jersey in particular got it pretty bad though.

 

[Thlayli]

The main road in my town now has power, which is quite exciting. It doesn't look like many residential areas have power yet. The beach areas look like freaking Katrina. It's amazing that only 3 or 4 people in Connecticut died.

Of course, an interesting statistic to consider: 54 people (that we know of) died in Haiti due to Hurricane Sandy, compared to 51 in the entire United States. And yet this hurricane gets more press about its Northeastern effects than the entire earthquake catastrophe did for Haiti some years back.

Troubling and sad, but an interesting case study on the perils of deforestation and overcrowding on the one hand, and media oversaturation on the other.

 

[Azale]

But it's lolHaiti, they are doomed for all eternity so why bother worrying about them? Amirite?

 

[Dachs]

...deforestation?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Forests and Mangrove swamps, and other such structures, can help to create a lot of friction when hurricanes make landfall, thus reducing their overall strength. Forests also help to anchor the soil, preventing mudslides and other 'on the side' disasters.