Rush Mode

So now I'm just in super hyper rush mode. I packed a bag yesterday. But there's too much in there. Like all my clothes. I don't want to have to ship, and I'll just give away the rest. Whatever I leave behind I probably won't see for months, if at all. First thing, is the computer bag. I think I've backed everything up.

The stupid embassy hasn't told us anything. Just rumors. Canadians are going with Americans. Only 2 bags--limit of 23 kilos each (which isn't bad.)

But how can they have a plan, when all the roads are closed? How would they get us to the port?

Some are saying that Israel is waiting for these evacuations before they really start pounding.

I just heard on CNN that they warned the people in the South to get out because they have to retaliate for the 8 Israelis who got killed this morning in Haifa. But how are they supposed to get out?? The roads are all blocked or destroyed. Ali is in Marjayun. Maybe he got out. But Rola's cell phone isn't working, so I don't know. At least the guy on CNN accused the Israeli Foreign Minister, "When you warned those civilians to leave yesterday, you still killed 20 innocent people with their children who were leaving in their truck."

I did see a guy who came up from Saida yesterday and another Brazilian family. They said the bombs were going off behind them on the road, but they made it to Aley. It looks like Aley might actually do kind of well this tourist season because of the internal refugees. But displaced people from the South and the Dahiye don't spend money like people from the Gulf.

This is so disconcerting. I'm getting used to the sound of the bombs. Before I was kind of jumping. Just now I was talking to a Lebanese guy and I said, "Did you hear that?" And he just looked at me straight in the eyes, as calm as a feather, and said, "We're at war."

Shit.