Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Whatever happened to our hurricane season?

We have gotten up to numbers 7 and 8 for storm names for this season, but as you may or may not have noticed not much has happened...and that is great! We will take it!
These last two, in case you are at all interested, are named respectively, Grace and Henri both just storms that have met up with or will, as in Henri’s case will have to deal with wind shear. And that is a good thing; it knocks the dickens out of a storm.
October has been historically not a good month for hurricanes to develop and so to any of us south west gulf coasters that is a great thing to hear.
Seven weeks left in our nasty weather period that does arrive yearly, and was not noticed by the rest of the world until those two very bad years, 2004-2005.
Gosh that was four/five years ago!

For us anyway here in southwest Florida the hurricanes have all but forgotten us, but Texas had that last years devastation by Ike in Galveston just a year ago this past September 13.2008, a Saturday. Would make a person have the common fear of the number 13, Triskaidekaphobia one would think.
I have been known to have that fear on occasion.
Hurricane Charley came on August 13, 2004, a Friday, but my first positive stabilization MRI of my MS was also done on a Friday October 13, 2006!
But unfortunately, unbeknownst to me my niece passed away on that same day, October 13, 2006!
Crazy, coincidences.

When I was a first grader I had another horrible coincidence that had nothing to do with the number 13, just a very weird experience, which gave me the creeps for years to come… My parents had taken me away on a vacation for one of the school or legal holidays. But right now I don’t recall which one with so much time passing, but when I returned to school it was Fire Prevention Week, and each of us in the class were asked to make posters for the teachers of something consistent showing what it all represented and why it was important to acknowledge. And so I drew a hotel with people at the windows screaming and flames coming out of it with the name of the hotel on the marquee that I had just spent my vacation at, and within the week, before it was over a similar picture/photograph was in the newspaper of my hotel actually on fire!
Scary and I was only six.
Have any of you ever had that happen?
I bet everyone can relate to something similar, or not.
For years I thought I was a jinx, and was afraid of drawing.

I was frightened as an adult too when a person I didn’t like passed away, and even being in my twenties; I was not that unsure my thinking it didn’t have something to do with it!
Crazy I suppose or just crazy coincidence?

Nobody has that power, or do they?
Some believe they do have that ability, and some who know that we only use a small fraction of our brain’s resources insist that if we knew how to we could do so much more than most of us really do.
That, in all common sense, does sound plausible though.
Who knows what us human beings could do if we think hard enough about anything.
On that thought provoking possibility I will say good night to all, and ask you all to please take care, be safe in all that you do, and count your blessings and I will continue on my search for mine!

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