Preparing for Hurricane Dorian
The Slightly-Humorous How-To Hurricane Preparation Guide
The clouds have rolled in overhead, the sky has turned grey, distant thunder roars as if to hint, ever so grimly, of its approach. The storms that were pushed out of Hurricane Dorian’s way are overhead now and the air is ominous. You can always sense it when a hurricane is coming, the air feels different, your body feels different, there’s an electricity in the atmosphere that you can just sense. Dorian is going to hit us head-on. The thing is, I’ve been through a hurricane or two, in my day. Actually, safe to say I’ve experienced at least a dozen. I was in Florida for the back-to-back tag team in 2004, when four hurricanes struck the state in a six week period. That was a lot of fun, all of the power was out for a month-and-a-half, grocery stores, everything — except my work. Yes, I still had to work the very next day after landfall and onwards while the rest of the state got 6 weeks off. What a joy.
I was also present for Hurricane Andrew which actually had quite a few fatalities, which is unusual for Florida hurricanes, which usually do quite a bit of extensive damage, but never seriously harm many…
