we've been pretty lucky so far

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The slick in the Gulf might not have behaved nearly this accommodatingly in its first days. People are getting a little time to protect what they can. I'm going to dream enough will be accomplished before hurricane season might overcome every defense and every mitigation.

I am mindful that every interactive map out there could be deliberate or wishful-thinking bunkum, and there's no way to downplay the seriousness of this disaster, but there's room for hope as long as everyone does what can be done as quickly as possible.

If what the space lizard people, "alternative" scientists and historians and researchers, are saying is true, there are going to be plenty of these disasters requiring us to work very hard to save ourselves and each other, increasingly so. The good part of this is the working together part, the need to think in terms of life preservation instead of personal advantage and political brinksmanship. Humans are heroes in the midst of emergencies. We DO stop thinking of ourselves. We risk our lives for strangers and for critters in trouble. All our differences dissolve and we start being who we are.

Part of my mission here is to help you get there without the disasters bringing down your own house, or dropping the bridge from beneath your car, or falling overboard, or a mountain coming down on you, or troops breaking down your door, or a bomb out of nowhere blowing your neighbors to smithereens in their sleep....
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