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Hurry up and wait is a sentiment many of us are familiar with.

Once we’ve run out of things to do, before the thing, whatever the thing is, we enter into a kind of holding space.

During these spaces, our mind can go to terrible places, as it wanders about looking for something to do, relating to the upcoming thing. I’m sure many of us have been there.

Naturally, for me, it is the upcoming trip. With the COVID panic around, naturally, my mind still insists on overreacting to any little health like – like weird pain on my left side that was different from the usual pain. You know what it was? A pimple. Even if it wasn’t that, there was another easy explanation to jump to: the chair. For a week I was condemned to a chair at work I could not adjust, because – of all things – a bed bug infestation at work moved us all out of our usual area to either work at home, or work in another part of the building.

I chose another part of the building, and so begins the tragedy of the chair that couldn’t be adjusted.

In attempts to “hurry up and wait”, I chose to begin a Disney movie marathon – not much of a marathon with just one movie a week, but one movie became two, and with everything else going on, it helped alleviate the concern. Not to mention, picking the movies were an ordeal, as there are so many to go through.

Do I include Marvel or Star Wars?

Pixar?

In the end, it ended up being: Aristocats, Hercules, Coco, Toy Story, The Little Mermaid, Brave, Pocahontas, and the Pirates of the Caribbean. Movies that meant something to me, and to my mom. Narrowing that down though…what a list.

Naturally, it hasn’t put all the worries to bed, but I knew that wasn’t possible. It was one small way to deal with them, to detour them, while staying “in the moment” with what the thing was, too.

So if you find yourself in that situation, look for ways to remain passively engaged with the thing, whatever it is, good or bad. I think that’s a bit better than trying to avoid it entirely or distract from it – but that may not work out at all times, so use your best judgment.

In my case, it was easy to find something.

If you’re in the “hurry up and wait” phase before a surgery, that may be more tricky. You could watch some hospital shows or movies, documentaries. It need not be on your exact issue, and it’s probably a good idea to avoid ones that end in tears.

Hurry up and wait before a trip, could be just engaging with what’s available in the spot, or along the way!

Hurry up and wait for holidays, well, there’s endless holiday movies and songs. Even novels.

The gist is, to avoid your mind wandering, keep it engaged in some fashion with the thing that is on the horizon. Don’t let it drift too far from it, too often. It will – of course it will – but try to keep it present and prepared for the thing. It does a better job than actively avoiding it, at least for me, because that continues to keep that part of the mind active that may want to wander in worry over the thing.

So this is my advice, for those of prone to catastrophizing! Engage as best you can during the “hurry up and wait” period, to try and stave that off.

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Hurricane Dorian strengthens to a Category 4 storm, National Hurricane Center says

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Hurricane Dorian became an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 hurricane late Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The center’s latest alert is based on reports from hurricane hunter aircraft flown by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Dorian currently has maximum sustained wind speeds of 130 mph. The storm’s status means it’s considered a “major” hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale, capable of causing “catastrophic damage” to homes, uprooting trees, downing power lines and rendering areas uninhabitable for weeks or months.

As a result of Dorian’s power, all of Florida is under a state of emergency and authorities are urging residents to stockpile a week’s worth of food and supplies, with the governor warning that the storm could be a “multi-day” event.

“It’s going to impact the entirety of Florida, and residents need to be prepared,” Acting Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Pete Gaynor said Friday morning on CNN. “So, take the time now … to understand what your local risk is.”

“The clock is ticking right now,” he added. “Don’t waste time. Prepare yourself and your family.”

President Donald Trump said he will attend a briefing Sunday at FEMA headquarters in Washington at 12:30 p.m. ET. He said the briefing will be roughly 24 hours before storm is expected to hit, and they will likely make decisions about whether to evacuate parts of Florida then.

Trump said in a video posted to Twitter that Dorian looks like it “can be an absolute monster.”

“We’re ready, we have the best people in the world ready,” he said in the video. “All indications are it’s going to hit very hard and it’s going to be very big. Somebody said bigger, or at least as big, as (Hurricane) Andrew.”

Deborah Thomas, 69, was preparing for the storm Friday at a Home Depot in West Palm Beach when she broke down in tears with worry over how her dog and her pigs would survive the storm.

“I live in a mobile home, so I stand to be homeless,” she told CNN. “But that is not what worries me. I have animals. I can replace my home, but I can’t replace my animals.”

The storm is ‘extremely dangerous’

Dorian is due to slow its forward speed in the coming days, allowing it to gain intensity over warm Caribbean waters and fuel the heavy rains, damaging wind and storm surge it’s expected to deliver, CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam said.

A hurricane warning has been issued for the northwestern Bahamas — except for Andros Island, where a hurricane watch remains in effect — where Dorian is expected to hit Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said. A hurricane warning means hurricane conditions are expected, whereas a watch means hurricane conditions are possible.

In the meantime, Dorian is expected to “remain an extremely dangerous major hurricane,” the center said, with potentially “life-threatening storm surge” as high as 10 to 15 feet above normal tide levels.

It is then forecast to roar toward the US mainland Monday evening into Tuesday morning at major-hurricane strength, though experts warn that forecasts are subject to change.

Regardless, residents across the state should be prepared, CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar said. “We’ve been saying ‘all of Florida’ for a reason.”

As of Friday afternoon, the storm’s track indicated a landfall could occur somewhere in the southern half of Florida, Chinchar said.

“But that could change,” she warned, “as well as the landfall time, which right now is still looking at late Monday night into early Tuesday morning.”

Another question is when the storm will deviate from its current northwest track and shift north, Chinchar said. That shift in direction could indicate what kind of impact, if any, will be seen along Florida’s west coast and in the Panhandle.

“There’s still a lot of questions there, but the fact remains — the potential is still there,” Chinchar said. “So, you need to plan accordingly.”

Florida residents are stocking up

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that President Trump had approved a federal emergency declaration for his state.

The governor had previously declared a state of emergency for all 67 Florida counties. The state has 819,000 gallons of water and 1.8 million meals ready for distribution, he said Thursday.

Local officials throughout the state are making decisions Friday about whether to issue evacuation orders, DeSantis said in a Friday morning news conference.

“We are just asking Floridians, please heed those directives from your local folks,” he said, adding, “Those decisions are not made lightly.”

Florida’s Highway Patrol will begin escorting fuel trucks to boost the volume that can be brought into the state, DeSantis said Friday. Service and truck rates for fuel trucks also have been waived.

About 2,000 National Guard troops will be mobilized Friday, Maj. Gen. James Eifert said in the news conference. That number could double by the end of Saturday, he said.

“We’re prepared to respond,” Eifert said. “We have 12,000 soldiers and airmen in the state and every one of them that is able and in the state, not deployed, will be ready to step up as needed.”

Florida residents have been stocking up on gas and food for a stormy weekend, and officials are urging everyone to be prepared.

“Get water, get gas, get cash out of the ATMs,” West Palm Beach Mayor Keith James said. “The more we hear about this storm, it sounds like a serious one.”

Thomas, who was fretting over her beloved pets, plans to hole up with her dog at her daughter’s home, where they’ve stocked plenty of water, she told CNN. Even if evacuation orders come down, Thomas doesn’t plan to leave, she said, even though Dorian has her mind on Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which left Homestead, Florida, looking like an atomic bomb had gone off.

With Dorian scheduled to arrive in time for Labor Day, major airlines have offered waivers for flights to Florida, Georgia and the Caribbean. Officials with the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority announced that Orlando International Airport would cease operations Monday at 2 a.m.

Tourist areas were emptying out Thursday, CNN affiliate WFLA reported.

“We usually get hundreds of visitors every day, and it’s just been one of those days that drives everyone away. It’s a gorgeous day but the hurricane is just going to kill it all,” Jason Pun, owner of a Cocoa Beach restaurant, told the station.

“It is taking a little bit of a hindrance, especially when we’re supposed to be preparing for one of our busiest weekends of the year,” Frank Figueroa, owner of the neighboring Sandbar, said.

Big storm, big response

Dorian warrants a multibillion-dollar price tag, FEMA associate administrator Jeffrey Byard told reporters Thursday.

“This is going to be a big storm. We’re prepared for a big response,” he said.

Since Dorian had minimal impact on Puerto Rico, the agency is shifting staff from the island to Florida in preparation.

Dorian already has claimed the title of strongest storm so far of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season.

If it reaches Florida, this will be the fourth year in a row a hurricane of any strength has hit the state. That would be the most years in a row since the 1940s.

Dorian is on track to be the strongest hurricane to strike Florida’s east coast since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said.

Military and NASA make adjustments

To avoid damage from Dorian, the US Navy is moving more than 40 planes from Jacksonville to bases in Michigan, Ohio and Texas.

The US Air Force is evacuating 16 aircraft from MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa to McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kansas, an Air Force official said.

Florida State University had been scheduled to play its season-opening game off campus, in Jacksonville near the Atlantic coast. Because of Dorian, the game has been moved farther inland to FSU’s normal home field in Tallahassee.

Because Dorian could impact Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, NASA has said it will have a crawler-transporter move NASA’s mobile launcher Friday from launch pad 39B to the Vehicle Assembly Building about 3.5 miles away. The launcher was being tested on the pad in anticipation of future Space Launch System missions.

from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports https://fox4kc.com/2019/08/30/hurricane-dorian-strengthens-to-a-category-4-storm-national-hurricane-center-says/

from Kansas City Happenings https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2019/08/31/hurricane-dorian-strengthens-to-a-category-4-storm-national-hurricane-center-says/

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Disasters Don't Whip Up Insurance Pricing Power

Jan. 4, 2018 9:34 a.m. ET

Global insurers suffered one of the worst ever years for catastrophe claims in 2017 after three major hurricanes hit the Caribbean and U.S. and terrible wildfires swept California.

And yet the reinsurers that backstop the industry’s worst losses are still struggling to lift prices at all, let alone impose the significant hikes that used to follow severe losses.

Their problem is the huge supply of capital willing to back catastrophe insurance risks: this comes both from traditional reinsurers and alternative market sources like catastrophe bonds.

Total losses for 2017 are estimated at $135.6 billion by Swiss Re , which is very close to the inflation adjusted total of $138 billion for 2011—the year of the Tohoku earthquake in Japan—and the $136.6 billion in 2005, when hurricane Katrina struck the U.S.

Partly due to this, total capital in reinsurance fell last year for the first time since 2008, according to U.K.-based brokers JLT Re. But that still left the industry with a significant excess of funds over the volume of reinsurance policies written.

What is more, fears that hurricane Irma would cause deep pain for catastrophe bonds investors evaporated quickly. By mid-November investors were putting more money into the market to make up for losses suffered or for capital that was trapped while claims were assessed, according to Willis Re, the global broker.

Capacity, in other words, remains plentiful. So although reinsurers tried to raise prices in the run-up to the January 1 renewal date – when about half the world’s reinsurance policies get renewed—they mostly had to back down at the last minute.

The upshot is that while prices rose 10% to 20% for some U.S.-specific policies that suffered the biggest losses, global catastrophe policy rates for 2018 are less than 5% higher compared with last year so far, which leaves them below 2016 price levels, according to JLT Re.

For shareholders of traditional reinsurers, like Swiss Re and Everest Re or of those that do insurance too like, XL Group , the best news is that the uninterrupted price falls of the past five years have been arrested. However, the era of historically low returns on equity from reinsurance is far from over.

Write to Paul J. Davies at paul.davies@wsj.com

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