We have been expeiencing wind and rain all day today. I went out first thing this AM and rounded up any mterials that could get airborne an cause damage.Thank God I don't live in what is a "flood Zne. I'd imagine the beaches and low lying areas are catching hell as they do in the rainy season. Thank God that this is not July or August which diminishes intensity . IIf it were I'd have had the squeeze and the Beagle in the car and been gone.
Amen Brother. Thank GOD we are all good here in Boca Raton. Can’t wait for this crap show of 2020 to turn the corner!
My middle Son was in Lake Charles when they were hit by Hurricane Laura. He was of very few who didn't evacuate in that Cat 4, as well as Hurricane Rita in 2005 (a month after Katrina). I was on the phone with him for a couple of minutes during Laura's peak when phone & cell lines went down. He'd been thru 1/2 a dozen major earthquakes in his life also. I never ever heard fear in his voice until Hurricane Laura's bitch fit. He fled Hurricane Delta a day prior and will never go back! Stay safe Michael
This storm may have been of the kinder more gentle variety but I sure had one hell of a mess to clean up.
26 August 2020- Laura was worse than Katrina, the worst Hurricane to hit Luzianna since 1856. 77 dead, 300,000 people evacuated in a rural part of the state; less the small town of Lake Charles, population of 70,000. ●☆● [Reference Map below] Approximately 2 Million people lost electric power and water up to 3 weeks, as Laura spawned tornadoes and tropical storms across the U.S. Had it hit New Orleans we'd still be hearing about it. Imagine being gone from your home for three weeks out of four, weeks later you receive a electric bill double the norm even though you weren't home for 3 weeks out of 4. (My Electric bill in Y2K, in Lake Charles, was double what it currently is in LA County!) Imagine your house wiped off the map, and your insurance won't cover it because you insured it for 100% of its value 20 yrs ago, but the value of your house quadrupled over that time. Imagine FEMA not showing up immediately (shades of Katrina), then when they do show up, there's only a couple of FEMA Agents, to do the work of several dozen agents... and it only gets worse. and even worse, 5 weeks later a Cat 3 hits you a 2nd time once again! Now imagine almost every electric pole and grid being quickly rebuilt, only to see it all torn back down 5 Weeks Later. One third of the population never returns. My Son included. Definitely a WTF moment! Perhaps the very worst part of all, is those doing the rebuilding having to do so when it's a hundred degrees, *record-setting Heat* with 90% humidity over the next month. I thought I knew what hot was living in a freaking desert; until I moved the family to Lake Charles, little did I realize I had little clue even though I lived near there for a few years, when I was a child. *I didn't buy into global warming until we moved to Luzianna in 97, where it's so fkng obvious, and effects you directly as the value of your home plummets* Any fool who doesn't believe in global warming, should spend a couple months in Southern Louisiana. The Luzianna Coast loses 35-40 feet yearly. The land sinks at a rate of 2 inches per year. While the ocean levels will rise by 2.6 feet over the next 30 years, as the land will have sunk by 5 feet! Where will NOLA be? 13 feet below sea level! A serious serious issue. Anyone in politics, who peddles conspiracy theories, but turns a blind eye to the reality of global warming, deserves to be shot! Or perhaps they need to be sent to live on the coastline of Luzianna! ●☆● Path of Laura
Does your Mom still send you those classic comical emails? I could use some humor these days. My Mom passed on Mother's Day of 2013. Kim's Mom passed on my Birthday in 2016, what a way to throw a turd in the punch-bowl, to ruin totally bodacious party on days Or- egregiously, excellent, heinous, most odious, outstanding, resplendently, stellar, totally, triumphant, and unrivaled days of future past... "Winter Springs" in the Spring, Summer, and Fall. "Bodacious" is as serious as Pounding relentless rain gets. Bill: "you and I witnessed many things, but nothing as bodacious as what just happened. Besides we told ourselves to listen to this guy". Ted: "What if we were lying?" Bill: "Why would we lie to ourselves" Green's Dictionary of Slang, records bodacious- ‘excellent’ as early as 1907, but the word had been around to mean: audacious, insolent (since 1845), and to mean, as Green puts it, “of a young woman, attractive, esp. possessed of large breasts,” (since 1936). Be excellent to each other, party on dudes and dudettes. (Wyld Stallyns)
As the old Irish Rovers Tune goes "for it's her you'll find the pleasures of life". That would well apply for folks residing between Houston Texas and the Big Bend of Florida.. Unfortueately though during Hurricane Season many of those residents will be wondering if it's their turn in the barrell. Climate Change I sure believe in that myself and though Louisiana is prime candidatte now I've seen projects maps of other US Cities that will be in danger as well.
