Rain Falling Softly From Remnants of Chris

Listening to the rain falling, softly, quietly with an occaisional flash of lightning somewhere off in the distance.

The rain from the Depresson and Tropical Storm formerly named Chris.

This is a clarification on reasoning.

I would prefer the rain falling softly with a drop of technicolor lightning than losing power for 3 weeks or watching my roof fly away in the night.

Yes, I love hurricanes. I love Tropical Weather. I wouldn't be writing about it if I didn't but that doesn't mean I want to see death and destruction on the nightly news.

I am aware of what disasters might come and it is not the storm that is to be blamed but people who build at the edge of the water in high skyscrapers and overcrowd cities with no thought for evacuation routes or storm surge and complain when their world gets blown away in a kvetch, "why me, why me" cry because some city like Miami or Tampa didn't have a hurricane for 20 years and NOW they got one.. as if God had nothing better to do than to mess up their life.

You have to study history and learn from it or at least be aware of it.

Even if I one day can afford to live in the Keys in some building near the Ocean... or the Gulf.. I have to know deep down that anything I keep there can be lost to the winds of a Hurricane or the Storm Surge that can cover my island... or most of it unless I choose to live on Solares Hill :)

Seriously... we live in a hurricane zone and we know a hurricane can come anytime.. even if we have been hurricane free for years.

Miami didn't have a close hit after Betsy in 65 until Andrew in 92. A long time to build and crowd what used to be a bunch of farm fields in Homestead when I was little.. a place where pole beans grew when it wasn't time for the strawberries to thrive.

Andrew came like all the storms before him came... population and poorly build homes unfortunately stood in his way. It was the sloppy builders who didn't nail down every shingle or the architects that did not take into consideration hurricanes when they built houses without thinking how the wind would catch those decorative features and it was poor planning that allows over population growth in small areas where people need to evacuate or ............... a total lack of knowledge of the history of a region.

It is all about luck and growth in hurricane areas goes in cycles around periods of few storms.

Key West was built up in the 1880s and 1890s when very few storms hit. Then disaster struck and it took time to rebuild. Miami's building spree of the 1920s came to an end early in 1926 when disaster struck...

Hurricanes have been on the planet for years and years and centuries before Miami decided to build castles at the sea's edge and hurricanes will be here for centuries way after Miami ceases to exist.

They are amazing...beautiful to view on satellite imagery. Hot and difficult to deal with the aftermath.

Have to go off here.. writing an old friend but Chris is moving in hot and heavy and suddenly the lights are flickering and we have rolling thunder. Seems Chris might not be a named entity but many Miamians will wake up in the middle of the night tonight and give thanks we are only getting his rain and a tropical wave .. not a Cat 2.

always... Bobbi
okay the rain is not falling so softly anymore.. signing off and listening to the very loud thunder and the constant rain... watch out when he gets into the Gulf of Mexico..