I guess I should be grateful that Hurricane Laura passed me by, but...
1. I had to take stuff in needlessly, though I was too lazy to do like everyone said and take it all in.
2. Amazon, apparently in anticipation of hurricane-induced delays, switched both same-day and next-day shipping to next Tuesday shipping.
3. The post office appears to have given all of its employees the day off based on reports that Laura might brush Houston. I'm basing this assumption on the fact that I was expecting a bunch of packages and got none of them, I didn't see any mail trucks today (none from FedEx or UPS either), and my complex's concierge garbage-collection company did exactly that.
#3 is most annoying, because I'm in a mental state where I can't really read fiction. I ordered a bunch of nonfiction, and only got one of those books by yesterday, which I've already read. Also, I have a bunch of live plants coming. And, like, I get that safety is more important than me getting my books and plants, and I know this is going to sound very Karen-y to say but...
Hurricane Laura was supposed to make landfall at around 1 am. By the time I woke up this morning, the hurricane was entirely past Houston. It seems like it would have been incredibly easy to make a decision about whether to have mail carriers come in at 6 or 7 AM; it's what we do for snow days in New England. And by that point, it should have been clear that Laura was set to completely pass us by.