It Is Here Again

Once again it is upon us and people seem to be somewhat in a daze about it. Hurricane season brings a new adventure for us every year. I grew up with Nor’easters and that kind of weather, but now, I am dealing with Tropical weather.
Everyone makes fun of me because I watch the storm’s path with great attention. The year that we were slammed with Charley, everyone was so complacent about it. “Oh, we haven’t been hit by a hurricane since 1969” is all I had heard up until then. Now that there are more and more people here it is a whole new ball game. No one expected a category 4 storm to nail us but it did.

For those of you that don’t know, the school district that I work for lost almost half of our schools that year. It is almost two years since Charley hit us and they are still demolishing buildings that Charley destroyed. It is sad that we were forgotten after New Orleans got nailed. Granted, we did not have the flooding, but we had all the other devastation.

So, as TS Alberto heads for our coast, I have been watching the storm path with great curiosity. I am not sure that I want to live through another hurricane. No electricity, no a/c when it is so humid that your sweat has sweat, no ice, very little supplies and chaos will be the order of the day. We volunteered at church to distribute ice and water which felt good to do even though we were sweating to death. My parents had looters try to get into their house but they changed their minds when my step-dad came out with his gun. The one cool thing out of it all was the police state afterward. LOL We were under a curfew at 9 o’clock.
After the storm left, it was then that all the mold and mildew showed up on everything. My allergies just about killed me. We still have this disgusting mold on our fence that I can not get off. I have bleached it, pressure cleaned it and more, but it just will not die.
The moral of the story, I will take a Nor’easter any day over a hurricane. Here is hoping that we don’t have one this year and if we do, I hope Florida is wiped off the map. LOL Take care until next time.