Repost from downstairs:

Police helicopters are circling around the Capitol Building here in Austin. She Who Must Be Obeyed just told me that via Twitter the EMS manager in West is estimating 60-70 fatalities and well over 200 injured. Another feed from Houston is saying five firefighters and a policeman were killed (with at least 65 others) and injuries are in “the hundreds”. All hospitals from Austin to Dallas are on trauma alert.

Oh fuck, oh dear.