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Doesn't matter what model you look at...

...one thing you see is the HUGE HIGH.

What this should remind you is that .... as long as the high is in place, once a tropical wave forms it'll ride under the high ...til the edge of the High.......then curve to the North in whatever way the High allows it to. High is capitalized as in this case it as it's currently a living, breathing thing!

Couldn't fall back to sleep after waking up early, so just going to write in my blog. Writing relaxes me.

Spoke to a few friends about the problem of conveying to the general public the importance of making a hurricane plan, a kit and storing supplies. It's not that hard to do, and yet after every warning goes up you will see people trying to crowd into the local Publix as if it's the world's largest Walmart but alas it's not. Inside there are long lines, empty shelves with no water left in sight as a few lucky people push their shopping carts out the door packed with the last 6 packs of Publix Spring Water and toilet paper. People have a frantic look as they look wildly about the aisles trying to grab things, anything that they may need. Do not tell these people the power will go out and the yogurt and Ice Cream will go bad.........just don't, trust me. I tried that once and I was screamed at and told "they all turn away" citing Hurricane David in 1979 that somehow emotionally scarred them as it had the nerve to turn away and go to North Florida after they bought hurricane supplies. Telling you, once burned and apparently all they want is chocolate chip ice cream as the store may soon; closed due to the threatening hurricane and associated hurricane warning. Do not get between them and their chocolate ice cream.

I sound like I'm being silly, but no that happened in the frozen aisle before Hurricane Andrew. After telling me off, they walked away clutching several pints of chocolate ice cream. My mother, a chocoholic herself, said with her deep Southern Accent "oh leave em alone, if they're gonna lose electric I'm sure they will be glad to have even melted chocolate ice cream!" and she reached in and grabbed the last Tofutti Cuties.

There are a different types of people in Hurricane Country.

Some have their hurricane supplies neatly stacked away all year, waiting in case the Big One comes their way. In North Carolina, they keep emergency supplies for hurricanes and/or a blizzard knowing full well they may not get neither, but they stay prepared anyway. These are Weather Preppers!

Some know they should get hurricanes supplies but the odds are in their favor their town will miss the brunt of the storm and so they do the math and the odds and decide they can go to Disney or use the money for hurricane supplies. Yup, they go to Disney, but out of a huge sense of guilt and the need to do the right thing they stock up on those cheese crackers in little individual packages with peanut butter in them that were on sale and hide them in the closet. The kids see where they hid them and leave cracker crumbs all over the back seat of the Van half way to Disney.

Some live in total denial and feel better that way.

Some really want a hurricane and are sure the moment they go buy water the hurricane will turn away and the Hurricane Watch will be dropped.

Some nervously grab an extra case of water every time they go shopping, filling up the garage with water just in case and nervously worrying fellow shoppers who see they are buying more water than anyone really needs and rush to grab water just in case.

Some do nothing. Absolutely nothing. They see nothing, they know nothing, they don't want to know anything and they buy beer, pretzels and a lot of canned food Italian food they heat up daily in the microwave and should a hurricane hit, they have beer, pretzels and a can opener to use the canned food. God really does look out for drunks and fools it seems. I have seen this happen actually so while it sounds like a joke, I'm telling you a neighbor across the street when I was growing up was never upset a tree fell in his yard, or their was debris after a hurricane. His son would come put the shutters up for him and he'd come out after the storm and sit on his porch drinking beer and waving to the neighbors. Someone said to me "he's a crazy old fool!" and I remember thinking "well he seems a whole lot happier than you are..." but kept that an inside thought as even as a small child I knew when to keep my mouth shut when a neighbor is surveying her broken fence as a large tree fell on it. You gotta know when to hold them, when to fold them and when to shut your mouth!

The last kind here on the list goes to people who shop at Amazon or Target and orders hurricane supplies when they see a strong tropical wave that might become a hurricane. They figure they can return it within 30 days on Amazon and near forever at Target. Either they use them or they return them, it's a form of "banking at Target" just in case.

Which one are you?

I'm not making money on this just trying to help, so sharing with ya'll a bunch of stuff you can get online without thinking too hard. Oh and this can all be delivered obviously. Obviously, if you have kids order diapers, baby wipes and crayons; the baby wipes are for when the water is not working. If you have a big dog, but a big bag of dog food!