Hurricane watching
Oct 24th, 2005 by Accidental Thinker
You people up north get snow days. In Florida, we get hurricane days. As I write this, we are under an inland tropical storm warning. The next county over, where I work, is under an inland hurricane warning. Work and schools are cancelled. Personally I think it’s all a bit alarmist because Wilma is passing far south of here. I doubt we’ll have anything worse than your usual nasty weather day. It’s currently a bit gusty out, but the biggest threat this far north of the strike zone is the potential for tornadoes, not the storm itself. I’m so sure we’ll be fine that yesterday I bought a freezer full of groceries. Now that’s faith. But if we didn’t lose power during three hurricanes last year that more directly impacted this area, including one that took out part of our roof, then I’m just not all that concerned about this one. So I’ll enjoy the unexpected day off and keep the kids occupied with some fun rainy day activities, before it’s back to business as usual tomorrow.
On a more serious note, I’ll be saying prayers for those who are more directly affected by Wilma. She is cutting pretty darn close to the part of the state where I grew up.
Great to hear you all are ok! It’s beautiful here too. It was nasty
this mornning and I was afraid we were in for a long day of rain, but
i’m really loving this weather right now!Hope your kids are enjoying their day off from school. 🙂
Scary stuff I watched all morning – I’m glad you’re OK!
DID, TOO. DID TOO!
As a matter of fact, I decided today to do a piece about the “value” of my b**g ($126,000; ahem). Plotted for Friday, give or take two weeks. Today when I checked it, the first answer was $0. Which is probably more like it.