Stuff about me!

See my complete profile

 
Last weekend was interesting as Hurricane Jeanne blew through Florida. Ironically it hit land only a few miles from Ivan three weeks earlier. The weather quickly deteriorated throughout Saturday from when I did my chinups in the morning to that night. I watched the county press conferences about the impending storm at noon and that's when it reality set in. I packed some things and drove to Darcy's. The politicians and media reiterated the annoying phrase of *that's the price we pay for living in a tropical paradise*. Whatever...It's not a paradise but we are paying a high price for living here!

We ended up watching the local WSVN channel 7 news that night and tracked the path of the storm. A few reporters got blown around and one was in the eye of the hurricane! Southeast Florida was spared, again, due to the 120 mile an hour winds rotating to the north of the eye once the storm hit land. So the state has had four hurricanes in six weeks. No state has had that many since Texas in 1886. The weather people said there were about 30 named storms in the ocean over the past couple of years but none hit land. So we are making up for lost time I guess. I think people get complacent living in this *tropical paradise*. The news interviewed one person whose trailer home got damaged and he joked he'd rather go through a hurricane than experience snow! Give me a blizzard any day over a hurricane. FPL (Florida Light and Power) has used up its emergency fund and there is talk that our power rates will increase as a result.

Fourth, and likely last, season of Enterprise debuts next week. I will tape the episodes and then hopefully bode farewell to the rather lacklustre show. Last bit of news, actually big news, is that Darcy's rings are finally ready. She will pick them up tomorrow!

posted by Michael at 6:51 PM