Thursday, June 3, 2010

The waves are coming in...

Tropical and windy waves are on our horizon and faraway.
We are in the beginning of the season, the rainy season that is and now all forms of weather systems are more than likely going to be considered to be a part of our daily lives for conversation.

Not one day will go by without notice of how the weather was for that particular one or what might be in our vicinity to have influence on said forecasts nearby or within our realm of possibilities.
It’s just so typical of our lives in this southwestern arena of this state of Florida.

The tropical waves are now appearing already off the coast of Africa where most of our storms begin, hurricanes that is, and so we must all pay attention to that.
The local just windy waves are less ominous and more than likely are just a preamble to a normal rain system or a minor thunderstorm.

Those weather systems this year will definitely not be our friends, not that they ever were, but more than ever before these unwelcomed visitors are our big time enemies, considering that they may very likely push that oil slick towards our shorelines not away from them!

Once all this begins we seem to have a situation with frequent power failures.
The longest being just after Hurricane Charley since that one lasted for two whole weeks!
Living in Florida is NOT for sissies by any means! We dare you to join this never boring state?

Sadly the rain storms off of the coast of Pensacola have pushed the oil slick ever so much closer now within just four miles of the shoreline. Tomorrow is considered touchdown day.
Booms have been placed strategically along the coastline, hopefully to prevent infiltration of that nasty gooey substance.

Here nearly six hundred miles away from there we can only wait and pray that we will be spared, but as loony as that may seem you never really do know what could be, stranger things have happened. But let’s face it; it is highly unlikely at this point with that amount of oil spewing significantly still!

Moving on… today was errand day and we did comply with our agenda and found that the gas here has dropped significantly in price at the warehouse store it was only $2.56.9, pretty good for this time of year! We had to pick up one of my prescriptions and hair supplies too, and then on to the home warehouse store the other one, this time the wood we needed to replace the curly ones on our dock were straight, less knotty and not oozing too much creosote, and so Hubby chose five decent boards, two twelve’s and three ten footers.
We ate lunch at our healthy choice restaurant that has an affiliation with our grocery would you believe, it’s called Crispers, and it has an association with the Publix grocery chain. They serve mostly soups and salads and ask you not to tip! But if you so desire to
show your gratitude; all of it goes to charity, how nice?
We have to continue to continue here that means try hard to live our lives even with these threats to life and limb.

Our local newswoman is doing an excellent job reporting from Pensacola with keeping us apprised of their moment to moment accounting of their horrendous inevitability.

On that note of uncertainty, which has tangibility in our reality we will pray that all will be done to prevent the devastation to become beyond our capabilities.

And so I will wish you all a very good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

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