A fight over Spam at Cosco, lines around the block at gas stations, two curious tourists who had to be escorted off the beach, roads closed, an overnight vigil…my first all-nighter since college…

What to read while waiting for the wipeout? Forgot to pack my library book with the flashlight and windup radio from National Geographic. Luckily someone lent me an old copy of David Dary’s The Sante Fe Trail; I was thinking it might be nice to be landlocked right now.