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Hurricane Dorian, continued – South Carolina installment

laura bruno lilly — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 00:05:20 +0000

Note: Marty of snakesinthegrass posted a 4-day diary of experiences toughing it out in his St. Augustine, FL home as Hurricane Dorian passed. I decided to continue where he and Dorian left off…overlapping on Wednesday’s entry. For context, Florence, SC is an evacuation city – a destination for those temporarily displaced during a hurricane. Only […]

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Just a simple endorsement

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 23:50:12 +0000

While we get ready for Dorian’s possible impact Wednesday/Thursday, I leave you with this image and a link to a well-articulated post regarding a slice of the world’s Reality by Alanna Pass.

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Fatal Family Ties: Hugo, Matthew, Harvey and Irma

laura bruno lilly — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:21:34 +0000

In these days before Irma’s impending impact upon this evacuation city of Florence, South Carolina, I have been overly sensitive to the fact that we will not be here during her arrival. Instead, we will be ‘going through Irma’ while driving on-the-road to Colorado. Already this town’s hotel rooms are filling up with evacuees from […]

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Sharing a Double Grief

laura bruno lilly — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 04:01:20 +0000

The day after my cousins and Aunt Dolores returned to Chicago from Dad’s funeral* in Colorado, my Aunt Betty fell, broke her arm and entered into hospice care within the week. Unlike Dad, she and his other sibs were/are lifelong Cubs fans. And I confess I caught the cub-bug from them back in the day! […]

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Poetry Shoutout: "Heading North" by Andrew James Murray

laura bruno lilly — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 04:07:20 +0000

“I am a northern guy. I have lived the whole of my life in the north west of England. I feel northern. It is in my accent. It is in my attitude. It is in my preferences: my favorite season is winter…” Thus begins Andrew James Murray in the Forward of his new collection of […]

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Random Miscellanea During Inclement Weather

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:04:27 +0000

It is Monday and we are several days into an ‘historic’ rainfall that is saturating inland as well as coastal South Carolina. Luckily the newest hurricane threat Joaquin, destined for landing along the Carolinas, diverted out to the Atlantic Friday evening. If not for that, it would have amped up an already massive waterload to […]

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