"This looks like a job for emergency pants!" (Alas, the Sluggy Freelance webcomic site is having internal server issues, or there would be a link here.)

I think I've written my hurricane story for this series, but I have to say, the fire warden canoeing through the fire circle site is a lovely image. (Somewhere I have pictures of my sister-in-law sea-kayaking on a golf course.)

Ah, epidemiological clue! As much as I admire a great deal in paleopagan cultures, I am a big fan of germ theory.