Monday, June 21, 2010

Storms are nasty tonight! And yes, I am much better.

And many, according to the TV news have already loss power, but as you can see so far we are still good!
The power outage appears to affect 11,000 customers in three counties, Lee, Collier and here in Charlotte.
I suppose this time we lucked out so far.

How are you all doing?
You do know that I worry!
The nightly news is just dreadful.
Not only the news about the oil leak here on the Gulf coast, well not really here but within a several hundred mile radius away… but you out there in the rest of these fine U S of A are suffering with horrendous weather, tornadoes, and heavy flooding and only G-d knows what else! Please be safe and take care and know that we here are thinking of you too!

Sadly, it may look as if we have been way too self involved down here, but no not really we do worry and care more than you could ever know, really!

The tameness of the stormy weather tonight seems to be starting to prevail it has calmed down considerably, which could mean we are done for tonight.
Another round tomorrow will not be far behind, why?
This is our rainy season in Florida!

The tropics too are showing some instability. You see, we have what is called Invest 93 that could promise to become our first tropical storm, named Alex for this our hurricane season… too early in my book! But its only another thing I have no control over, which is way too bad! Because if it was up to me, I would banish them to where they would do some real good… in vastly empty unpopulated drought stricken areas of the world!
Most of these nasty things arrive in August or September historically!

The yard is a bit of a mess tonight, these were the hardest storms to hit us since I can’t remember when… the new Mandevilla on the right facing out from the pool took a fall off its trellis, oddly enough the other, the left one, stood put, but our rolling chairs on the patio went their own ways but not too far since the wind push was towards the house… Hubby had taken the tikki torches out to continue to decorate the yard and with a plus for insect control since they have containers in them for citronella.
They were old and worn and were going to have to be replaced anyway and now they are cracked and broken too! The grocery sells them for less than three bucks!

All this summer you may be hearing more weather reports here than much of anything else, although who knows for sure what will emanate from this wee brain of mine.
Unfortunately, though folks this is a summer weather driven state.

What falls here or blows here does have the uniqueness of making the national news for some horrendous reason. Talk about airing your dirty laundry! I suppose it all boils down to an interest, a weird undeniable interest of what goes on here?
Gosh what a moniker to have that curious minds want to know what we have going WRONG here; from elections to hurricanes to oil leaks we have received something of a reputation for havoc and perhaps excitement in a VERY BAD way.
Most all of it is NOT our faults folks!
So why thumb your nose at one of your contiguous states due to a BAD REP?
No really, why?
We want what all of you want, a nice quiet home to live in without too much fanfare, jobs, enjoyment of life when we have paid our dues in life.
Floridians are people too!
And since I am a choice transplant I have made this place my own now for nearly twenty-four of my sixty on this planet!
I think that speaks volumes, since I am not alone, you see, most of the people here are from somewhere else!
Think about that one for a while, they could have immigrated from where you are right now friends, so don’t put us Floridians down please we have been you too!
Personally, we were New Jersians, who have somewhat of a rep too, LOL, and you all know that I am so right on that one!

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

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