After all the running around yesterday, waiting in line at the gas station, and waiting
in line at the store, getting all stressed out – nothing happened. I’ve heard exactly *one*
clap of thunder, about 20 minutes ago.
Our afternoon storms are worse than this.
Anyway, a thought occured to me. My state is like excellent in getting us prepared. The
local governments do a great job, as does Jeb Bush. There are shelters all over the place,
now they even have animal shelters for folks with animals. (I’m sure they did before last
year, but they were scarce) – the people who need the shelters use them.
This year, however, is a little different. All the news stations were saying that if you
have a blue tarp on your roof then you need to evacuate.
That’s fine and dandy, except for the fact that every where you look, there are blue tarps!
You hear about New Orleans every time you turn around, but hey: Florida got hit pretty damn
hard last year. Maybe we didn’t flood, but there is still damage and debris and buildings
in desperate need of repair and blue tarps!
Oh, but we don’t have a screwed up government – that’s why you don’t hear about us in the news.
Our roof finally got worked on this past month – but folks, we still don’t have a proper
roof. We have a wannabe plastic thingy up there that won’t hold if a major storm comes thru
here – hell, I hold my breath whenever we get an afternoon storm.
If we were to get hit like we did last year, shelters are gonna overflow. Unless our rooves
miraculously get fixed by Labor Day, Dade and Broward Counties are up a creek. Nearly every-
body will have to evacuate.
But this time, we dodged a bullet.
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