Storms all over the place in this pseudo normalcy world by this pseudo normalcy gal!

One thing in life we all have in common is that the world has weather!
And it, "weather", has mostly been one of those not uncommon polite conversation starters that are never tabu at nearly any social function.

Oddly enough, it was a slightly heated conversation but no we did not let it get quite there but Colorado University or the University of Colorado came out with its predictions for our year's of named storms and hurricanes a few months ago, and my childhood friend said that NOAA came out with a breaking news report stating that we will be having a more than a usual active year of storms, huh and DUH???

Laughable and concerning that two well respected reliable sources did not confer, and that NOAA is way late to the game with that commentary!
I wonder what gives?

Since the University came up with a count of 25 storms for the year a couple of months ago and NOAA just noticed??? We have had twelve already and three are in waiting off the coast of Africa as I write this...! 

But according to our local meteorologist, the Saharan dust might very well prevent two of them from coming anywhere near the US, and this is after their percentages of forming into depressions have been up to 30% and 40%, the third is more than likely going to become a fish storm???

Names, names what is in a name if the storms do not come to be blamed for another disaster! We can only hope that is the case, cases.

After all, science is predictions like medicine is a practice... who hasn't heard more often than not the expression, "cautiously optimistic"? They will miss us, i.e. the storms, or as in the terminally ill patient will recover.

Oh well, "it is what it is"... I hate that now that it has been associated with someone who refers to life and death with so little value!

Any-who, the storms may be coming eventually and the wrath of Laura a cat 4 hurricane had been insane!

Last night's blog was slightly insensitive but speaking from my previous voice and coping mechanism of how we handled the devastation of having two direct hits from hurricanes ourselves. And that with time passing, sixteen and three years now that I can joke about their cause for redecorating!

Looking for an upside to an awful experience, but we escaped with our lives!

Too many casualties from too many violent storms... with many more to come!

All I can say from my heart and experience is to prepare for the worse scenario and pray for a better outcome!
And listen to your local meteorologists, by staying tuned to any watches or warnings and emergency management if told to evacuate and all other local authorities for such things!!! 

We, in reality, are only halfway through the season, but not at its peak which is September 10th!

Our homes are our sanctuaries and at times our fortresses!
With COVID-19 and, fewer places to go due to that we should make sure we have plans in that event of severe wind. And that is why we replaced our bedrooms' coverings that were thick plywood with clamps all these years now have aluminum shutters like the rest of the house, except our picture window that has heavier galvanized metal shutters!!! 

But we are all set if need be.

Last time for Irma September 2017 we were evacuated via robocall due to concerns of a fifteen-foot storm surge and our home that is waterfront has an eleven-foot elevation! So we packed up and drove north and east to Lake Mary that was just right.

Fortunately, it never happened the storm surge, but when we came home our roof was damaged and we had no electricity for days, but our old generator still worked. The roof was replaced a year later in 2018 after all was said and done. It hadn't been leaking so until I saw the pictures of it I hadn't realized it needed that. Now it is glued and screwed so we should be fine with a two-year-old warranted roof for many years to come!

Storm surge is still an issue... and Hubby believes we are inland enough not for it to be an issue. Ten minutes from the harbor by boat???

Thankfully, Laura's problematic very high storm surge prediction did not come to fruition either!!!
It was categorized as not being able to live through it if it had.
And for that, I am very glad for our neighbors to the northern Gulf in Louisianna and Texas. 

Hurricane Charley as any of you must know destroyed the tiny home that we had paid 55K for on December 31,1998 had 80K in damage by August 13, 2004, less than six years later...
It is true we had made many improvements by then, but still, that was quite a difference!

 Our outbuildings were gone including a beautiful Gazebo that Hubby had made, our roof was gone and it was raining inside! And on and on it went... new hardwood floors buckled due to that previous remembrance... but we were in it, in our hallway, while it all happened around us and we survived!!! Oak trees around our home uprooted, and the one in the front tore our sewer pipe out! YUCK!!! We went weeks without power.

So we do know, and also know it could have been much worse!

And now from the venue of my opinion...



And now without any further ado moving on again to...

FOR PRESIDENT & VP NEXT!

VOTE FOR JOE & Kamala! VOTE FOR JOE & Kamala! VOTE FOR JOE & Kamala! VOTE FOR JOE & Kamala! VOTE FOR JOE & Kamala!

What a great team! THE WINNING TEAM!!!

Sanity runs in their families, and kindness, and smarts! Plenty of experience too! Did I mention EXPERIENCE! And level headed clear thinking!

And so we must go...

Be smart and be safe! 

Happy good night to all!

Count those blessings and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Take it, Bella! ( I am a Maltese Yorkie, a Morkie, and I might be four years old! We are all rescues so no one knows for sure.)I did this so I will be.

Aussie shut it down!

(I am an Australian Shepherd, an interesting factoid I was supposed to be a miniature but...as you might know I AM NOT! But I am now over two and a half years old, so I am the baby HA! I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me.)

No tail/tale publishing circa 2018.

Don't forget us too! 

Easy as Aussie, Bella, Chance, now you got it!

And me Chance, I am a Bichon Frise mix, first I thought Maltese but now I am considering poodle? I am pictured here with Mom and Dad at the Port Charlotte Animal Welfare League! I am five years old they think.