This is an emergency Open Thread prompted by uncertainty about today’s diarist. There will be very little health information in it beyond my noting, yes, as of the end of last week, I have survived the menacing phenomenon of derecho and, no, my stash of healthful emergency foods did not sustain me through the several days I (and thousands of others) went without electricity or even much certainty about what had happened. I mean, hey, once you’ve seen a tree flying by the window, what does it really matter anyway?
Instead, I resorted to junk food. Egg McMuffins. Hot dogs. You name it. And I feel every bit of it.
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