2009 Hurricane Season Officially Begins...Some Salient Thoughts on Why Miami Is In Trouble...

I went with friends and family to a Hurricane Expo yesterday that the Red Cross and various emergency management departments were giving at the Miami Beach Convention Center. No one was there. Free Parking. Free Admission. Free Information and Free Flashlights out the wazoo but barely anyone was there taking in the information.

This was the busiest it got and it was not exactly a beach day in Miami..




The city and the county and the various appropriate agencies came with their trucks, boats and free leaflets loaded with important information to help people in the general Miami area deal with and survive a hurricane.



Max Mayfield was there... talking his little heart away in the folksy way he does and yet no one was listening. No one cares. Okay, he's yesterday's Max but still you would think more than 25 people would manage to listen to what he had to say?

Nope.

Why? Many vendors this year did not choose to appear so the show was half the size. But, people going would not know that. Cellphone companies didn't show (except for Verizon) and very few shutter companies showed... the Radio stations didn't bother. People didn't bother either so... I guess in this world of "It is what it is" we is living in a county where we have become complacent and bored and we think we know it all just 3 years after we were thrown for a 3 week loop by a Category 1 storm!

Will write more later.... when time permits. But, all I could think was... something seriously is wrong when Max Mayfield cannot get people to stop and pay attention to him when he is giving a free lecture on hurricanes to the general public.

Sad... sort of crazy. Home Depot giving out big orange buckets for people to put their pens and pamphlets in yet many found something else to do with their butts and their buckets :)

Hey...got to be resourceful to survive a Cane!



Yes...the dude from Channel 7 was there.. he seemed to think the best he could do to explain hurricanes to Miamians was to dumb down weather so much as to tell them "that a hiccup of rain" comes off of Africa and sometimes develops into a.."

A hiccup... this was the best he could do to explain how hurricanes go.. a hiccup in the wind... really, really pathetically funny. Sad.

Well..seems to me that if a hiccup of wind out by Africa develops into a mass of rain storms and travels to Miami in one big, swirly mass... there are a lot of people who would wish they had been there to let their kids go on the trucks, bounce houses, watch the Miami Marlin Mascot talk to anyone who would try... be able to walk up to Max who was often one of the only people at a few of the displays asking questions and ask him a question personally. Hey, even that little battery operated flashlight would come in handy... not to mention the free butt bucket from Home Depot.

Some Salient facts on Miami and Hurricanes... we really are not all that prepared and as always we are living in denial!

I did meet a nice girl from Charlotte, NC at the Red Cross booth who told me I will LOVE North Carolina... their sports team is named after Hurricanes.

Go Canes!

Besos Bobbi, going to work..and moving but June was too soon indeed... staying til the end of the month!