There's something with me and wind storms.
My biggest, most terrifying nightmare when I was a kid? Not the Devil, though he was a close second. It was a tornado!
My real life experience with significant storms?
In the 1980s Hurricane Gloria and to some degree Bob up north...yes they can be bad in southeastern New England but I was well insulated both times being inland by about 50 or 60 miles shrouded by dense forests, hills and valleys.
In the 1990s with Hurricane Floyd here in Florida. The newscasts leading up to the event of reported landfall were as doom and gloom as any I'd ever seen up to that point. Luckily, it veered away at the last minute and catastrophe was avoided.
In the 2000s I endured the big, loud and scary storm Hurricane Ivan as it blew slightly east of New Orleans but luckily it was all bark and no bite proving to be no more than a glancing blow to the city that a year later would infamously bear the direct hit of the similarly sized Katrina.
Ric and others here in Central Florida back in '04 had three storms that summer causing much damage and electrical power issues for weeks. I was in New Orleans during those.
Now here we are poised again facing a big baddy heading my way. The TV news sounds grim. This time I may not be able to wiggle my way out of it.
It's not the wind, rain, flooding or any part of the storm itself that most upsets me, it's the potential days if not weeks without electricity. What will I do? No TV. No Netflix. No ebooks. No phone. No cooking. No air conditioning!!! No internet!!! No computer games!!! CIV VI is coming out in two weeks, dammit! I need everything back to normal for that!
Ah well. Once again, not at all pertinent to our plight here in Central Florida I bring you a drag queen update on a hurricane that blew a long, long time ago in a land (Rhode Island) far, far away.
My biggest, most terrifying nightmare when I was a kid? Not the Devil, though he was a close second. It was a tornado!
My real life experience with significant storms?
In the 1980s Hurricane Gloria and to some degree Bob up north...yes they can be bad in southeastern New England but I was well insulated both times being inland by about 50 or 60 miles shrouded by dense forests, hills and valleys.
In the 1990s with Hurricane Floyd here in Florida. The newscasts leading up to the event of reported landfall were as doom and gloom as any I'd ever seen up to that point. Luckily, it veered away at the last minute and catastrophe was avoided.
In the 2000s I endured the big, loud and scary storm Hurricane Ivan as it blew slightly east of New Orleans but luckily it was all bark and no bite proving to be no more than a glancing blow to the city that a year later would infamously bear the direct hit of the similarly sized Katrina.
Ric and others here in Central Florida back in '04 had three storms that summer causing much damage and electrical power issues for weeks. I was in New Orleans during those.
Now here we are poised again facing a big baddy heading my way. The TV news sounds grim. This time I may not be able to wiggle my way out of it.
It's not the wind, rain, flooding or any part of the storm itself that most upsets me, it's the potential days if not weeks without electricity. What will I do? No TV. No Netflix. No ebooks. No phone. No cooking. No air conditioning!!! No internet!!! No computer games!!! CIV VI is coming out in two weeks, dammit! I need everything back to normal for that!
Ah well. Once again, not at all pertinent to our plight here in Central Florida I bring you a drag queen update on a hurricane that blew a long, long time ago in a land (Rhode Island) far, far away.