sovay: (Psholtii: in a bad mood)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2021-03-25 06:46 pm

Ship me somewheres east of Suez

My life remains a double-tracked medical cavalcade, but [personal profile] selkie has just informed me of the latest development in the Suez: "theyre actually doing it! ever given has been there so long that theyre actually going around the cape of good hope like 1700s scurvy patients oh my god."

I can only imagine how nervous the Panama Canal must be feeling right now. I just checked and thank God the dredging of Boston Harbor is proceeding on schedule. If we Storrowed a container ship, we'd never live it down.

P.S. The breeze coming through the window smells like the ocean; there was a gyre of seagulls visible above the roofs in the afternoon. It is coincidental but pleasant, considering all the chanteys I now have stuck in my head.

[personal profile] anna_wing 2021-03-26 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
Not yet, I think. Ships don't move that fast. There would be some time lag, assuming the Canal remains blocked.