Joy. Last night I go to bed and it's on track to hit quite a bit south of me. This morning I get up and now it's shifted and scheduled to pummel the crap out of all the west central coast.
Yeah, this is where I live
And it's not often your weather forecast tells you a 100% chance of rain. It's not really a "chance" then is it if it's 100%
There's a level of deja vu involved here. In September 1998, when Hurricane George came through, we had to evacuate. At the time, I had just gotten together with my Love but, in an act of [regretable] kindness, I was still living in my rented house with the dickhead. We had broken up a few weeks before but he begged me to give him the rest of the month to make arrangements for a new place to live. I, being an idiot, agreed, trying to do the right thing.
So, where my Love and friend Rand lived was under mandatory evacuation. I helped them pack up and prepare. Love and I ended up on the road and into GA, finally ending up in Calaway Gardens for the weekend. It was a totally unplanned trip but the "official" start of our relationship. Because when I got back home, the dickhead had cleared out everything in the house and stolen all of my posessions and jumped ship - literally, left for a 3 month stint on a cruise ship. Fucker.
So it was a good and bad experience. Turns out, George never hit us anyway. Those who stayed said it barely rained. It turned at the last moment. Thing is, that I've lived here for almost 19 years. And George was the first real threat - a threat which never even panned out. Newscasters are making a lot of noise and comment to take this new Charley threat seriously. People in this area haven't been hit in most resident's lifetimes so they don't really have the sense of urgency that people outside the state probably would. Especially since everyone went so crazy panic over George who never even came close, it's hard to convince people there's any real danger.
I'm keeping my eye on it, but I'm honstly not that worried. We've had some horrible storms - like the No Name Storm of 1993 - come through that weren't even hurricanes or tropical storms that have been way worse then any official tropical warnings we've ever had. I'm sure we'll get rain. And some gusty winds and the beaches will get churned up. But, I think we'll - sorry, have to say it - weather the storm just fine.
If not and you hear about parts of Florida breaking into the Gulf, well....then all of you who panicked are welcome to say "I told you so."
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
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