Hurricane Harbor

A writer and a tropical muse. A funky Lubavitcher who enjoys watching the weather, hurricanes, listening to music while enjoying life with a sense of humor and trying to make sense of it all!

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Mother Nature Refuses to Shut Down.. Pandemic Problems Shut Down Drama. NY Says NO! Florida Keys Says Yes! Governors Squabble ... Death Toll Rises in NY



Today above.
Damage from yesterday below.
Just heartbreaking.


Pay attention to your local weather today.
Yesterday was awful.
Hoping today is quieter.
But when you have highs in the 80s..
..and a front coming through.
It can get wild fast!

Mother Nature didn't get the Memo...
...to shut down the weather machine.

To be honest I couldn't sleep last night. I'm pretty sure at most I slept about an hour and fifteen minutes, but hard to say exactly. I rested... I debated getting up and having some kind of Sleepy Time tea and doing things and trying to go to sleep again but I was too sleepy to do that yet not sleepy enough to actually fall asleep. Around 6 AM I kind of gave up, watered some plants on the balcony before the heat sets in and talked to my brother in Thessaloniki on the computer. Always good to talk to him... cause this Covid 19 Darma is driving some of us up the wall literally...



There was no real reason for my lack of sleep other than my allergy bothering me and probably as I took a nap late in the day Saturday and then had some tea ... who knows. I also realized when I went to water the pansies on the balcony that I had left the sliding glass door open with the screen closed but allowing pollen in and had sat watching TV on the sofa by the sliding glass door. Okay, note to self to make sure that door is closed tight during pollen season. And, to be honest, aside from the allergy mystery solved, more likely the Pandemic changing out world, rearranging our lives and too much on my mind though I wasn't particularly in a bad mood or sad though trying to list everyone I am close to in my prayers may have kept me up too late. Being honest here, it's the off season when few read my blog except my best friends and so it's more a diary of this event than a blog on hurricanes. But today's blog will feature a tropical topic so stay tuned. So today's blog is for you know who you are and anyone else who happens in in late March...64 days before the start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season.



Before I go further the weather yesterday was lousy and today should be a repeat of more lousy weather at a time when no one wants to see tornadoes ripping up homes where people are trying to stay safe and seek shelter from Covid-19. Pathetic but Mother Nature is refusing to stay locked down and quiet as she seems on a rampage across the Deep South for now... may be coming your way soon also.

And the beat went on and on yesterday.




There's the video from that image that really tells it all though the video is compelling. What's more compelling is I don't know how we are going to evacuate people during the Hurricane Season if it comes early (and it may ... in May) if we still have this virus that spread like wildfire running wild around the hurricane coastline. Too much to even think on though we are all thinking on that in the weather community.

As for the controversy on New York State...
Sorry I like Cuomo but he's wrong.

New York State currently has more cases than Iran.
And just a few less than Germany.

Seriously, sadly... check it out.


By this afternoon NY will probably the 5th worst region.
A lock down needs to be a lock down.
To get this under control even a little.
Because currently it's out of control.

The State of Washington has about 4,000 ish cases.
They shut things down early on.
Time for New York State to step up too.



This is beginning to remind of the song where Amy refused to go to rehab.... spoiler alert ... it had a really sad ending. A beautiful voice died... too young.






Speaking of favorite pots of call for hurricanes... the Florida Keys is having a problem with tourists from far away places like New York that fly into FLL, rent a car and drive down to see the sights in paradise as well as many Miamians trying to escape what's going on in Miami.  The problem is of course, they bring their germs with them even if they don't realize they are because "they feel fine" or whatever reason they have but they have shut down the only road in by car and closed it to residents. Personally, coming from an old Conch family that lived in the Florida Keys in the 1800s, I'm all for the checkpoint. We do it after hurricanes and seriously this is much worse than any hurricane and much more DEADLY and yet amazingly the Governor who refused to postpone the Florida Primaries even though other states did and who has posted check points on 
I-10 and I-95 doesn't think the road into the Keys should be shut down. Seriously this man is all over the place on what should and shouldn't be done. He was upset the airports were open but it was okay to have an election in the state where more people are retirees and where poll workers are often elderly doing their civic duty. You'll remember I was really upset on Twitter and the reason is I knew it was a bad idea and note poll workers ended up getting Covid-19 after the election.  They have asked people who may have voted at those locations (3 at least) to take "appropriate actions" but the appropriate action was NOT to have had the primary.




Really you cannot make stupid up.
He seems naive sadly.
I'm not happy.
That's not a partisan comment.
It's a logical one.
A republican governor in another state shut them down.

Let's talk on another Tropical Port of Call...
New Orleans, a city I love very much.


Seriously? The last time I looked Mardi Gras is not a National Holiday and it's a local event and she should have been paying attention to the news and she had to know that many people in Seattle and San Francisco travel to New Orleans as well as people from the world travel to Mardi Gras she should have shut it down. Covid-19 exploded in New Orleans after Mardi Gras and it has continued to explode since then exponentially. I get the "buck stops here" but as it was an event held in New Orleans the buck landed on her desk and she ignored it hoping for publicity and revenue and I guess one last party; did she think it was just hype and panic and everything would be fine, fine, fine? Don't even know what political party she is and I don't care, I care she didn't do HER job and it was her city and she made a poor call.

This is not rocket science. It spreads like wild fire by human contact... humans need to stop spreading it around and hunker down and show some grit. I've had one too many people tell me they have yet to shop for basic, non-perishables and are insisting on using Uber Eats and are sure they will be fine and it will go away soon enough. When I suggested buying tuna, pasta and rice they told me they'd rather eat Sushi and Tacos and Uber Eats is delivering. Do they not understand this is a slow motion disaster and it won't be over and if they are nervous on money as they say they are ...stop eating fast food and use your money wisely. 

The same people that every hurricane season refuse to shop for hurricane supplies when they are on sale or when a hurricane is North of Puerto Rico headed WNW with a strong High to the North are the same ones who refuse to understand they have to get to the Dollar Store for the 2 lb bags of white rice, big boxes of mashed potatoes and pasta they can buy for under $10 while stocking up are spending more than $10 every time they order from Uber Eats. The usual suspects complaining and the usual suspects stockpiling supplies before the aisles at Publix are empty of their favorite peanut butter. This isn't rocket science. Yes, it's human nature I know.

Well I have to tell you something. Mother Nature is not on vacation and neither is she on lock down and at any point the President can pull rank on a Governor with a National Emergency and really shut things down and when you finally get around to getting to the store to stock up the store may be closed temporarily, Uber Eats may not deliver and who you going to blame? 

Sorry to be so blunt but this is a rolling disaster not a snow storm or a hurricane ... it's going to go on and on and on. Wish I could say it won't and trust me I'm praying it won't but this is really a worst case scenario where you need to really prepare for the worst while praying for the best.

Prayer is good. 

Stocking up on cheap basics that won't go back with time such as tuna, ramen, pasta, peanut butter, rice, lentils, canned foods won't set you back much money wise and your money will go further if and when the lock down is more of a lock down.

Maybe New York State should secede.... they seem to have their own way of doing things and a huge budget the size of a country and they have more cases of Covid-19 than many countries. The Florida Keys seceded more as a publicity stunt to make a point but many of us believe it really is it's own nation and I'm all for them trying to secede again. Personally I'm a Conch so I have rights as my family was Naturalized as "Citizens of Key West" so I vote for secession! Ironically they rebelled because of a blockade, this time they should secede because the Governor doesn't want them to ....even though he put check posts at I-10 and I-95 into Florida. Can't make this stuff up.

Stay tuned, watch the weather ...wash your hands, STAY HOME... STAY SAFE.

BobbiStorm
@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram.
Ps...not proofing my official diary right now.....



Yep... Key West... Love  you.
Miss you.
Hope to see you again ... 

posted by BobbiStorm @ 7:49 AM

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