"I write to you regarding the needs of the Nation."

That sounds like a sentence that could have been written any time in the past 250 years. As it happens, it was yesterday, in a letter that President Biden* wrote the leaders of the House and Senate, about the slacker behavior of people who are on vacation instead of working for their constituents
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/10/04/letter-to-congress-on-disaster-needs/

Also, in case you need it, the FEMA rumor-dispelling website
https://www.fema.gov/disaster/current/hurricane-helene/rumor-response

* an indication of solemnity. I usual refer to him as Joe.

Shall I be the harbinger of doom? Considering how stretched-thin local, state, and federal government services are, I suspect that nobody is really ready for Hurricane Milton to hit Florida

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2024/10/05/hurricane-milton-tracker-path-spaghetti-models/75530042007/

In case anybody wonders why I often link to the USAToday, it's because they don't have a paywall. Ads, though.

The VPN is not sneaky enough

I want to watch this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001z8wc/better-off-dead

I switched the VPN to be based in the UK, but the BBC iPlayer still discerned where I actually am, and refused to show it to me. Interestingly, though, when I went to youtube for something else, it gave me the UK style cookie notice. It told me my history was off. That's fine. Then it said I have to log in to watched the video I picked, because it assumes I am a bot. That did not make me happy.
Can't have everything. Or maybe one can. Back in the USA, VPN-wise, I discovered that the whole show is on youtube (now that it lets me in).