Posted in Hurricanes on Aug 21st, 2008
Dear Fay, You tricky, tricky storm. Perhaps I was too hasty in my judgment of you. Yesterday, I called you overhyped. Today, you retaliated with something that actually resembles weather. Your torrential rains have flooded many areas on this wet, blustery day, including my own back yard. Schools, which finally re-opened this morning (ironically on […]
Posted in Hurricanes on Aug 20th, 2008
Dear Tropical Storm Fay, I know it’s not your fault, but you are a symptom of all that is wrong with our storm obsessed local media, who like to hype non-events like yourself and then wonder why no one takes the warnings for the real storms seriously. Because of you, my kids have needlessly lost […]
Posted in Hurricanes on Oct 24th, 2005
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 […]
Posted in Hurricanes, Reflections on Sep 6th, 2005
What a week. My attention was seriously diverted by Hurricane Katrina last week. I, like so many others, have been glued to the TV. We felt the effects here last year of three hurricanes—Charley, Frances, and Jeanne. Charley was the most damaging locally, though Jeanne was the one responsible for our new roof. But what […]
Posted in Hurricanes, Reflections on Sep 1st, 2005
Everyone is talking about Katrina this week, and Katrina is weighing heavily on my mind. It breaks my heart to watch the footage on TV. It’s just something about the fact that entire communities are obliterated, and a great city with its own unique cultural history will never be the same. This has kept me […]
Posted in Hurricanes on Jun 28th, 2005
…tar paper alone does not an adequate roof make. We sprung two new leaks last night. Another one in the garage to join the 7 or 8 that are already there, and one in the LIVING ROOM! My apologies to anyone who is reading this for blogging about something so trivial, but I am frustrated […]
Posted in Hurricanes on Jun 27th, 2005
It’s only a little rain, fer cryin’ out loud. Barely enough drizzle to bother with the wipers. Yet it easily adds at least 20 minutes to my commute because people forget how to DRIVE when it rains. This is Florida, we get rain every afternoon in the summer. What’s so hard?? In other rain-related news, […]
Posted in Hurricanes on Jun 16th, 2005
I KNEW it was bad luck to sign a contract for our new roof (thanks to last summer’s hurricanes) on the first day of the new hurricane season. We’ve had nothing but problems since then. Our fashionable blue tarp, which has been quietly doing its protective duty for the last 10 months, began to fail […]
