Tuesday, June 1, 2010

WE ARE OFFICIAL! IT IS NOW HURRICANE SEASON! It runs from June first to November 30th.

Now everyone is asking where is that located? In our northern hemisphere, but of course, yep that means you northerners too, our friends up there in high places!

"There is nothing magical in these dates, and hurricanes have occurred outside of these six months, but these dates were selected to encompass over 97% of tropical activity." A quote from the, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, AOML notes are above.

NOAA’s predictions for the 2010 hurricane season:
• 14 to 23 Named Storms (top winds of 39 mph or higher), including:
• 8 to 14 Hurricanes (top winds of 74 mph or higher), of which:
• 3 to 7 could be Major Hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5; winds of at least 111 mph)
• If interested in keeping up with a notable score card provider go to, copy and paste: noaa.gov
I suppose that many would be frightened by the prospect of such devastating predictions, and add that into the very real threat from the notorious oil spill, huh?
What could we do, where can we run?
The space program is ready for all six billion of us?
No this is our mess; yes not just the Gulf’s Coast but the world’s!
Every so-called brilliant man, woman and child is supposedly working on fixing this environmental inconceivable disaster that no one would ever believe was at all possible.
I betcha that’s pretty much like those way back when ‘think tanks’, where all the most intelligent people would get together to…gosh…think!
One of my best girlfriends from college had been a part of one of those, but I never had the nerve to ask her what they discussed; now I wish I had, but she was a great study partner, and I got great grades that way!
That BFF was also my reason for my side trip to Scotland buddy to go to Saint Andrews.
You see just before our senior year, in that summer of 1969, we had this incredible trip to the fashion houses of Europe, since we were students at LIM, (while the rest of our contemporaries were at Woodstock) and that took care of six countries, but BFF and I flew a short trip over to Scotland and stayed with a designer student friend of hers who later became quite famous, but if I told you I would have to kill you! Just kidding folks!
That fact that this friend who was so smart was my friend was terrific in my book and as an adult I have tried hard to befriend people who I could learn from.
I don’t think it’s on purpose but I enjoy learning that way from others.
I guess I am too easily distracted to sit and learn that way; hands on, actually doing or by example had been my MO for me being able to retain what’s important in life, new valuable info!
Talking to people and asking questions works well too for me; have you ever examined what is your best method of learning?
It’s intriguing that now at this advanced age I finally figured out what works, for me that is.
I am so glad that I am not one of the people needed to figure out how to handle this miserable difficult decision making peeps that are working I am sure very hard to plug the oil leak!
Geez don’t we all wish we had the ability to solve major problems?
I do think that anyone who has a heart in their body would think that way, don’t you?
Now we are all starting to realize between our frustration and anger how hard this whole problem is to figure out to solve, and only wish that we had the answer and could ride in on white horses and save the day, the Gulf, the fishermen, the wildlife, the environment and the world!
Hating to bite that bullet that we all know will come, we were all wrong to fall into the blaming game for we are all to blame, aren’t we really?
Think about if we weren’t all gas hogs, not knowing how to conserve etc. etc… and the rest is history!

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Which way will the war go?

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