HURRICANE SEASON
I wrote this article a few years ago when there was a lot of complaining about what seemed like overkill in the pre-storm reporting of a storm that was heading toward Florida. In light of the recent storm and the tornadoes that accompanied it, I thought it might be appropriate to run it again.
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Seems like everyone is up in arms over the big hull-a-baloo the media made over Hurricane Erica last week. Get used to it folks. There is big money in storms. The grocery stores sell out, the gas stations have lines, generator sales go up, the sale of plywood skyrockets, and all manner of hurricane supplies fly off the shelves.
Do you think the retail industry is complaining about the overkill involved in reporting a tropical depression as a full-blown hurricane? – or the fact that they had the storm track so fouled up that Einstein couldn’t have figured it out? Hell, no they ain’t!
It’s damn good for business….. And what’s good for business is good for Florida. If the projected storm track takes in the whole damn state, then the retail sales in the whole damn state will also be positively affected. Who’d complain about that?
On a more serious note, the early warnings that we get in more recent years are a Godsend. It’s probably much better to be over-prepared than it is to be un-prepared, don’t you think? The early warnings allow us to be much better prepared. Starting in June or July anyone with good common sense will have most of their hurricane supplies pretty much attended to. At least those that are not perishable.
We will have our propane tanks set aside for lights and cooking burners. We’ll have a large supply of batteries for all the battery-operated things we might use. (Radios, lights, fans and things of that nature.) We’ll have all the canned foods that might be needed to get us through a lengthy power outage. (some of those canned goods in my supplies are several years old and I have some MRE’s still left over from Francis and Jean’s aftermath) We may even have bottled water, beer and wine on standby, but most of us will probably wait until a storm is imminent before laying in those more perishable types of supplies.
As a final thought, perhaps the TV stations overdo it a tad bit, but isn’t that preferable to not reporting about pending storms at all?
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Gramps use’ta say
©R.L.King2012 #546
About: Frustration
“Sometimes I need a little more Jack …and a lot less Jesus.”
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