My father takes these hurricanes

My father takes these hurricanes seriously. As everyone should. My father takes these hurricanes seriously, and we now live in Connecticut.

He woke me up the other day, suggesting I fly Elise out of Orlando. Of course I wanted to. Of course it was unlikely. Getting a plane ticket on one day's notice, her work schedule... the fact that she already has a planet ticket and the time off work to come up here for two weeks on the sixteenth.

But there would be peace of mind in getting her out of there... there would be an excuse to see her again!

So I threw the idea out to her. Just to see what she'd say.

Five hours later she was on a plane.

Note: It IS possible to buy a decently priced plane ticket five hours before the plane's departure, out of Orlando the day before the entire state of Florida is ecompassed by a monolithic weather system.

Note: It takes well over an hour and many, many, many frustrated visits and customer service calls to all of the internet's horrible travel matrixes (priceline, orbitz, travelocity, hotwire, expedia) to figure that out.

There's something in the Stella genes that gives us the super amazing ability to make things happen.