Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Cone of Uncertainty


As the latest hurricane, so called Wilma, bears down on the Gulf I am keeping my eyes on the weather, hopefully wondering if I've timed my arrival in Florida well enough to miss the last of these silly storms.

Of course I can't really tell because the weather man says the Florida Gulf Coast is in a "cone of uncertainty." Yeah, not what you'd call encouraging.

Perhaps it will land here. Perhaps it will not land here. I am fairly certain about the fact that if I flipped a coin I'd have roughly the same odds as the educated weatherman is overpaid to give me.

So maybe I'll still be here come Monday or possibly I'll be clinging to a palm tree, I can't tell you yet...because I'm in a cone of uncertainty.