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While it seems rational that some of my inlaws are coming from Houston to stay with us in Austin this weekend, as others have pointed out, my fellow Austinites are going crazy when it comes to Rita, namely by stock-piling.

I've lived in Austin all my life -- almost 28 years -- and nothing terrible along the lines of power, water, or other basic infrastructure has ever, ever happened. Including the time a tornado touched down just blocks from where I currnetly live, on Koenig.

Maybe I'll be eating crow when I find myself in the thunder-dome, or eating canned dog food< in a dessert, but this mass-panic that the apocolypse is coming all seems super-nutty to me.