Hanna's going to hit Baltimore tomorrow at some point! They're predicting pretty strong winds and lots of rain. Should be exciting! Off to buy batteries and spam. . .

I hope the Duwamish do win federal fishing rights in the river - tribal fishing habits play an enormous role in getting the fucking EPA to set human safety standards for edible fish and shellfish. Otherwise the businesses along the river will keep saying we shouldn't clean up to a standard that makes the food safe, because nobody eats them except the ordinary poor.

I was stunned to discover just how strong the returning fish runs in the Duwamish are these days. Still a long way to go, but the river isn't dead, not by a long shot. Check out the many parks run by the Port here: http://www.portseattle.org/community/resources/publicaccess.shtml (Terminal 107 is especially nice) or take MOHAI's upcoming boat trip http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/34009?prod_id=2224

You people disgust me.

We need to get rid of Ron Sims!!!

@1: Spam!? What kind of storm food is that? You can do better.

I just can't feel outraged for a guy who eats four to six bags of popcorn a day. It's too ridiculous and disgusting to contemplate.

I remember a hurricane hitting Cape Cod when we were there, back when I was in single digits. It was, to a seven-year-old, awesome. We got to take our baths in a pond!

It was probably less cool than I remember it being, though.

Soundbyte for Obama: the Republican nominee says we need to stand up and fight. A lot of you have been fighting for eight years to keep you families above water, while big oil and mortgage companies keep hitting below the belt.

Re: tribal fishing of our nasty river fish - perhaps chemically altered fish pair well with malt liquor?

Re: popcorn lung - it must suck to acquire a disease with *obliterans* in the name.

@6: Spam, like pemmican, is a very good emergency food (if not always appetizing).

Okay. I didn't get span. I got canned kippers and sardines instead. Bring it on, Hanna. Bring it on.

There was the poetry in nature with the hurricane going into NOLA during the Rs convention. I see similar poetry in Hr. Ike having the same name as republican president Eisenhower, aks Pres. Ike(r).

Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that the poetry is all, literally, hot air over the bermuda triangle. There will be nothing poetic if two hurricanes hit the east coast, back to back. The failing US infrastructure, which you do know the Eisenhower Highway System is a part of and which has lacked proper federal funding for the last 26 years, due in no small part to John McSame not voting in favor of the many, many bills he could have voted for to increase highway repair funds, can not take it.

Look at that budget shortfall. I wonder what the big cash cows in the budget are.

fnarf, boat trip is all sold out. boo hoo.

@2 for the win.

And if SLOG hadn't eaten my prior reply, @13, you'd know the big cash cow is the prison/jail/police/justice system wasting our tax dollars on jailing drug users instead of drug dealers. Well, that plus the giant hole Ex-sherrif Reichert (GOP WA-8) blew in it when he insisted on a death penalty trial and then gave away life in prison as a favor ...

Why does reading Slog comments lately make me crave chalupas?

@ronsims I'm amazed you have a job, let alone that obtaining it involved a vote.

and intentionally-chosen 11 PM timestamp? Talk about pandering.