The storm came through
earlier today.
Why?
Who knows?
It’s none of my business;
huh?
I jest, but there was a time
that here, historically in ‘our Florida’ that you could nearly set your watch
to the time that our summer storms would come on in…must be, ‘Global Warming’
that changed that…Why not blame it for that too; we seem to blame it for
everything else these days, hmm? Makes sense to me and you too I bet, not
joking here.
Yep, but don’t ask what that
time of day was to the minute that those storms came in, although it was an
afternoon event and daily too!
Tourists would be in the
hotel pools after lunch and then the lifeguards would tell/yell to them to get
out! Lightening you know; better yet thunder and lightening, bad, dangerous
killer stuff that lightening is…
We are the lightening capital
of the world, here in Florida
that is…
I am pretty darn sure that
was said encompassing this whole dang state, not just in my minuscule realm, in
southwest Florida.
It’s the idea that we have
fun all year long, but more so in our extended summers, more warmth nearly six/ten months' worth, yep.
People golf and get zapped,
fish off docks and boats, swim and get electrified, children and adults play
soccer, baseball and all those other outdoor events and gosh they get tickled
and survive or get worse and die, by those shocking natural systems coming in!
Warnings and safety
procedures should be respected, thunder means get inside and stay away from
windows, and be sure to have those surge protectors on all electronics or they
could get fried or better yet turn them off while unplugging!
And don’t think that just an
umbrella will save you from LIGHTENING; what are you crazy? Especially, when
most have metal shafts? Thinking about it, it’s like a lightening rod with your
delicate hands touching it?
Some now do have fiberglass
shafts and we do own one of those, but the part that extends the actual
umbrella itself is still metal; what’s with that, really?
Rain gear is smart, but only
if you are heading indoors, still not the best way to handle lightening!
It never fails, at least a
few times a year it makes the news that some poor soul didn’t respect the
thunder or those mighty clashes or tried that stupid counting of in between
those two, any meteorologist will tell you that is not an accurate way to tell
your susceptibility to its forthcoming danger or people’s warnings and who ended
up, must I say it? Sadly, a goner.
Don’t tell me that you were
devil make care and did not heed the warnings and now that you are paying the
price by haunting me or laid up in a hospital room when all you were doing was
having some summer fun?
I just wanted to get my punch
in to disgrace our fine state of first believed injustice from votes to people’s
lives to allowing others to toss their pets into our Everglades creating too
many where their were none of those damn pythons here ever before, or pepper
trees or Cuban tree frogs or fresh water being sent into the Caloosehatchee
River causing murky brown waters when it mingles with the salty taking months to
clear, from Lake Okeechobee, due to all the rain that we have had and if Lake
Okeechobee dikes breach thirty-five thousand people and their homes would be
flooded surrounding it and devastation not unlike what Hurricane Katrina caused in 2005 in New
Orleans losing thousand of lives, but gosh that muddy water is scaring off the
tourists, which in truth is our number one income for this state, second is
citrus sales…So disturbed business people are going up to Tallahassee, our state
capital, to see our Gov. Scott to ask him to come up with a way to appease everyone,
HUH?
He’s not the Wizard of OZ!
My point is that we have
issues too and there is no state in this country that doesn’t, and any of you who say
otherwise you are just plain dishonest, sorry, but oh so true!
The world, itself is in big
trouble with war torn countries, and the economy, not just here the economy that is, but everywhere!
And so, I am here to say,
sure we have problems as individuals, communities, states, countries, but who
hasn’t?
And in time, many of these major
issues will level off or end or get worse or get better…who knows and we all
care way too much, some not enough, don’t we?
BREATHE and think clearly and
perhaps the answer will come to you, since… right now I am at a loss…tag you’re
it, solve it!
On that note of some note
with a bit of silly added in due to when we lose our sense of humor that is
when this world we share will definitely go to hell in a hand basket, so mark my
works, and allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good
night and kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you
know who and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!