Miamians Keep a Watchful Eye on TD27...Gamma Coming Soon?

People in Miami woke up this morning and heard the hard to believe news that another Tropical Depression had formed in the Caribbean.

And again.... they searched for cones and advisories and the weather person they trust to tell them where this new Tropical Depression will go...

The kids asked me first thing... "Is it coming here?" "Have you seen the cone?"

I told them its going to go west for a while (which makes me feel really stupid telling them its going to be where Wilma was a few weeks back before she came north...they aren't dumb) and they asked me AGAIN, "But, have you seen the cone?"

Sigh... work will be more of the same.

I'm more sick of hearing about global warming then people bitch about hurricanes while living in Miami. I think often on moving to New England and my biggest concern is can I really take the winter... do I have it in me? I don't get there and go "oh my God...it's COLD up here" its part and parcel of the choice of where we live unless we just play the cards we have and never think to try a new game. Miami = Hurricanes. That is why the football team is the Miami Hurricanes. Notice we are not the Miami Penquins. We keep hurricane memorabilia around our town; we don't keep penquins on our porches and lawns to pretend we live at the South Pole. Do we?

So.... that being said.... Gamma is brewing south of us... and as long as she ..he...it ...is south of us we much watch it carefully.

Gamma.. I like it. Sort of like a Rock Star. Funny but true... hope it's not Wilma birth child given away years back come back to haunt Bedrock.

As for Miami..

Great article in the Miami Herald today about a couple who met online years ago... traveled across the country to meet, marry, start a family and a stay home father who watched the twins while his wife worked a good job at Home Depot. They had routine. They had dreams. They planned to sell the trailor and with their savings (now gone) they were going to move to some small Texas town where you didn't have to worry on unlocking the door for Santa on Christmas Eve and where their kids could grow up with room to run. Now they are living out of a motel on their last few dollars and the father is in some stupid game of sit and wait at his torn apart trailor for FEMA to come and visit. Are people supposed to sit around and miss work waiting for FEMA? I guess so... So, he sleeps in a van waiting for FEMA..afraid they will miss hime as they missed him once.. If anyone needs help they do and all of the people that had broken dreams from this storm.

One of those dreams most broken was the false hope that a town in hurricane country could withstand a pathetic little Category One storm and that a company ... no a monopoly that makes record profits such as FPL could be rewarded for their poor maintenance of their own equiptment with higher fees.. From where I sit they deserve fines...not higher fees. And, people in Miami and in other Florida cities look west and north debating if they should move.. unable to afford the high cost of living in Florida. It seems these days... like L.A. in the 80s the only people who can afford to live here are the rich and famous and the foreign investors.

Bobbi... going to work outside on a beautiful fall day in Miami.. fall leaves thanks to Wilma.