Sunday, September 17, 2017

This is the why...and how, where and when...I did do this for the first time just this year, by the way...

Irma was a historic system that had never ever been seen before, and no one in any realm of life can deny that.

Scary, and a bit of a throwback to a fear of what might have been from personal memories of being in our own home and having it destroyed with us in it. A home bought very cheap at only 55k six years before Hurricane Charley August 13, 2004 did 80K worth of damage to it!
It is true we had had many renovations by then, but still...!

So enormous was the devastation dollar wise, for a miniscule home, square footage wise that we were in shock. And before that there was Andrew when we, myself, Hubby and our sons all while living on the other coast, but way north of where Hurricane Andrew 1992 hit, five and half hours away were able to go down there and help, and so we did. At the time I was working in promotion and knew many people at Hawaiian Tropic and requested of all things sunscreen due to the people losing their homes and being exposed to the elements and we did not want to go there empty handed, while retrieving the couple of pallets of sunscreen the fork lift driver offered us dog food he was a volunteer with the Greyhound pet Association, and we were thrilled and had no idea how much he would donate, but it was two tons, yes that is what he did and we had a trailer for all the items and collected them and brought them down to Homestead then! When we got there it was night time and we were told where to off load the sun screen and so we did. The next stop was to find where to off load the dog food and that turned out to be at a shopping center that took a horrific hit, Campbell Shopping Center, and they had set up a pet MASH unit for pets in what used to be the Humana office, but was condemned for people but okay for animals? The next day we went to look for the Red Cross to see if we could help them, but they had more than enough help and so we went back to see if the vets needed help, and they did. Crazy as it may seem we somehow were put in charge of triage, determining which pets needed help first by being the most seriously injured or ill. It was amazing, exhilarating, and we stayed much longer than we thought we would and made many friends. Were interviewed by all news agencies, local and national. We reunited families and pets, that was the best, and also fostered them out to people who were away from the hurricane area.

That was twenty-five years ago, and after we were able to help we could go home to all our creature comforts.

Any-who, that was major then, and Hurricane Charley was just thirteen years ago and we could not go home from him since we already were home, so much different and that was a realistic fear with Irma too and so thirteen years and about one month later here was Hurricane Irma!

In all the thirty-one years and three homes on both coasts of this state of Florida with all the threatening hurricanes this was the first time we were given the mandatory order to evacuate!
Never before.

So when that happens you must be crazy not to pay attention to any and all news, so yes, all three networks, the weather channel, cnn, weather underground, you name it, and we listened and monitored all of it and passed it on to you! We also live our lives as retirees, and me being disabled, seeing doctors, grocery shopping, cooking, yard work, laundry, going out to eat and shopping and going to whatever things of interest were available locally, and as far as other viewing pleasures, regular TV and Netflix streaming, anything BBC mystery wise for me and Hubby mostly Vampires for him.
So if anyone found my obsessiveness with my blogging about the impending major historical storm and now others that seem to be coming this way or not I seriously believe that is your issue not mine.

Just the title of this blog tells you that! I am SPEAKING MY MIND, not yours.
The map graphics that I have been using have been from:https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atlantic/2017/hurricane-maria
Weather Underground, and if you have not been to that site you should go and read Jeff Masters blog there. He is quite knowledgeable in all things tropical including hurricanes etc. and has called the actual landings of these things as often as all others in the game of predicting.

Knowledge is Power as per Sir Francis Bacon said way back in 1597 as we all know, but too many improperly have been given credit for it, so I do try to learn from as many available information industries as possible and that are so accessible with the highways and byways of all technologies.

Any-who, below is the most recent five o'clock P.M. today position of now Hurricane Maria, they are still not committing to where she will go as far as if a US landing, sadly the same islands that Irma decimated will be hit again by her, Maria.

So I will calm or jangle my nerves with anyone else who needs to know, but as I reiterate KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, so in this case when we know what is happening then we can do whatever we have to! Ignorance is not BLISS! In these cases it can be very dangerous. PS anyone who lost power and got it back without any other physical damage to their home has no idea what all the people who lost their homes are going through! Just saying...

Now read or look at what I post here or ignore it altogether your choice or just pay attention PLEASE! BE SAFE!Maria

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