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Here’s a little known obscure fact making headlines. Only 21 names per year are reserved for hurricance as they form, and at only the halfway point, the Atlantic is very close to running out. According to this Live Science article, there is an official answer to the question, “What happens if we run out of names?”

The answer: Greek letters (and if we run out of those, it may be time to start colonizing the moon).

Perhaps still a bit insane over the Prince of Denmark, now her fury is boiling off the coast of Florida in that mad, nonsensical way the most indecisive person on the planet always seems to step ahead of you before picking over the value menu at McDonald’s. Well, at least it’s nice and cool outside, right? And wet, and rainy, and slick, and…

There is a lonely little blog currently online that, like any other blog, most of the internet can relate to. The difference is that this one originates in a New Orleans highrise data center being fed electricity by a diesel generator and connected to the web via fiber optic lines too deep to be affected by the current disaster situation. A handful of people in an air conditioned server room have become one of the eyes and ears in a city full of rumor, speculation, and accusation, for as long as the fuel holds out. Face it, folks; these people are exactly like you or I (except sitting on top of and enduring something no one would wish on their fellow human being). When the going gets tough, the tough get blogging.