[4woodenboats]

I hope that my next post comes to you later this week from Chicago.

You have an enormous amount of people fixated on your safe exodus, with a much larger number of us praying for you than preying on you. :)

Please give the standpipe a few raps here and there to let us know you're still breathing, OK?

[rebel_yell2]

1:40 a.m. here. Two huge explosions just rattled my hotel, woke me and everyone else up. It sounded like it came from the port area. What is the target so important? This will surely slow the morning evacuation scheduled for the Americans. Surely it must have been intended to help rather than to hinder the evacuation. We are all so weary, but will try to go back to sleep.