Let's just have a conversation. It's been a crazy few days. I had a poll for a completely normal

episode of Ask Science Mike for episode 80 for my patrons and then around the time the poll closed Hurricane

Hermine came into Tallahassee and kind of shut everything down. It's been a rough few days. I just got power back at my house.

I was wondering if we would have a show at all this week.

And it's been a really wild ride.

In fact, as I record this, I'm not entirely sure

I'll be able to get it to Greg at all.

So hopefully you'll even hear this very minimal version of the

podcast and a couple of thoughts and observations just from where I'm at at this moment.

I don't know if you've ever been through any kind of a natural disaster.

This is not my first hurricane. This is not Tallahassee's first hurricane, but the last storm that had this kind of effect on this city was in 1985, Hurricane Kate.

And if you've ever been to Tallahassee, you know our city is

trees, more trees than city, it's more forest, really, than city.

And it doesn't take much wind to cause a lot of disruption.

So most of our city has been without power or internet obviously since Thursday night.

And I'm recording this on Saturday.

And still most of the city doesn't have power. We looked out our neighborhood has juice again.

We've been eating dehydrated survival food out of boiling water on a camp stove.

And it's been about 90 degrees in our house so if you hear snoring this

week it's because my dogs can finally rest and I don't have the heart to kick

them out of the office because they've been pretty freaked out by all this and they're

calm next to me so I'm just gonna let them sleep and if they snore for once I'm not

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