The Texas Department of Transportation — TXDoT — has installed a number of electronic message signs. Heading to the Gulf Coast for a Labor Day weekend affair, motoring down the freeway, the signs all echoed a certain message.
HURRICANE SEASON
BE PREPARED
Hurricane Preparations
Not like this Mercury in Retrograde caught us by surprise. Is it bad? No, “For there’s nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so,” like Hamlet said.
Hurricane Preparations
Hurricane Preparations
The sign made me mentally pause. What preparations are in place?
Hurricane Preparations
Hurricane preparations, like Mercury in Retrograde?