Life is Never What You Expect/TD10/Anais Nin

No she wasn't a tropical expert but she loved "everything that flows" and weather flows... atmospheric currents flow, everything in weather flows in circles or spins its way across the map as we watch it on a satellite. One big lava lamp... in black or white or color, depending on which link we loop that moment.. as it loops its way onto our monitor. Fronts flowing, meandering.. little upper level lows popping up, moving one direction while spinning within their own orbit and then there are the little clusters of thunderstorms that can't seem to spin together even when the models all project that they will. The models are basically fantasizing..sometimes their fantasy hits pay dirt..other times... zilch, zero.. not a west wind anywhere to be found.

Will TD10 reform? If so... it spins close in. Something to think on. Has to get past the big, bad, ugly wicked witch of the west and find the red shoes. Will their be a scarecrow and tin man to help her or will she/he/it.. have to do it all alone with just the little guys at FIU in the NHC cheering her on and people at hurricanecity watching and waiting?

Watching... will watch... will see...

This morning it got some fave reviews even though the movie has yet to be finished... pre-release, pre-announcements forthcoming.. The NHC likes it this morning.... It "really, really likes me" sort of morning announcement.

Will see how they feel this afternoon if it doesn't pull itself together.

"A WELL-DEFINED LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL
DEPRESSION TEN...IS CENTERED ABOUT 170 MILES EAST OF THE NORTHERN
LEEWARD ISLANDS. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS INCREASED
NEAR THE CENTER OF CIRCULATION THIS MORNING...AND UPPER-LEVEL WINDS
HAVE BECOME A LITTLE MORE FAVORABLE FOR THIS SYSTEM TO RE-DEVELOP
INTO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION OVER THE NEXT DAY OR SO. AN AIR FORCE
RESERVE UNIT RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT IS SCHEDULED TO INVESTIGATE
THE DISTURBANCE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE
WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AT 10 TO 15 MPH...BRINGING IT NEAR OR TO THE
NORTH OF THE NORTHERNMOST LEEWARD ISLANDS LATER TONIGHT AND FRIDAY.
INTERESTS AROUND THE EXTREME NORTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA SHOULD
MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS SYSTEM"


On Anais Nin... are you still here?

Found a book in Key West.. wandering my way through in bits and pieces. There she is living in California in 1952 or 1953. They all ended up in California. Spain, France.. became less American friendly eventually ...wars and fascists and they ended up in Big Sur or LA or other places. Places oddly I have lived or spent summers.

So... a small quote... never what you expect. You think it's all about Henry Miller or Sex or her views on womanhood and life... nope..not with Anais.. she will always surprise you.

"Winter, 1953-1954

A man rushed in to announce he had seen smoke on Monrovia Peak. As I looked out of the window I saw the two mountains facing the house on fire. The entire rim burning wildly in the night. The flames, driven by hot Santa Ana winds from the desert, were as tall as the tallest trees, the ashes and the smoke were already increasing. The fire raced along, sometimes descending behind the mountain where I could only see the glow, sometimes descending towards us. I thought of the foresters in danger. I made coffee for the weary men who came down occaisionally with horses theyhad let out, or with old people from the isolate cabins. They were covered with soot from their battle with the flames.

At six o'colck the fire was on our left side and rushing towards Mount Wilson. Evacuees from the cabins began to arrive and had to be given blankets and hot coffee. The streets were blocked with fire engines reading to fight the fire as it touched the houses. Policemen and firemen and guards turned away the sightseers. Some were relatives concerned over the fate of the foresters, or the pack station family. The policement lighted flares, which gave the scene a theatrical, tragic air. The red lights on the police cars twinkled alarmingly. More fire engines arrived. Ashes fell, and the roar of the fire was now like thunder.

We were told to ready ourselves for evacuation. I packed the diaries. The saddest spectacle, besides that of the menfighting the fire as they would a war, were the animals, rabbits, coyotes, moutain lions, deer, driven by the fire to the edge of the moutain, taking a look at the crowd of people and panicking, choosing rather to rush back into the fire.

The fire now was like a ring around Sierra Madre, every mountain was buring. People living at the foot of the moutains were packing their cars. I rushed next door to the Campion childre, who had been left with a baby-sitter, and got them into the car. It was impossible to save all the horses. We parked the car on the field below us. I called up the Campions, who were out for the evening, and reassured them. The baby-sitter dressed the children warmly. I made more coffee. I answered frantic telephones."

Anais Nin... never what you really expect
Will write more a little later.. have to take a shower fast, wash my hair faster and get out of here to go to work.

Bobbi.. never assume anything ever... people aren't who you think they are based on name associations.

Ernest Hemingway, angry and reporting on the 1935 Hurricane.
Anais Nin... with her precious diaries writing in detail about the furious fire on the mountaintop.

more later..Bobbi