Disaster in slow motion

My wife and I have reservations for Destin in a week for our first vacation without the kids since our eldest, Madison, was born in 1993. I've had the Weather Channel on all morning. The announcers keep talking about Dennis being a record-setting hurricane and it is heading right at Destin and Pensacola.

Obviously, our vacation ranks really, really low on the priority list. Your heart has to go out to folks who took a hit from Ivan less than a year ago.

As I watch, it occurred to me that this is like helplessly watching a wreck happen in slow motion.