For those of you in FL or surrounding areas. When there is a hurricane coming your way do you...
I don't usually post on this forum.. but I just had to when I read your post.I stopped at Winn Dixie on my way home from work today - only to pick up regular grocery stuff - not hurricane junk. There was a guy behind me with a cart full of beer. I look at him and said: "Hurricane supplies?" He said: "I prioritize!" I laughed all the way to my car...he made my day!
The news media is doing their very best to put everyone into a panic. They show an old rotten palm tree laying on it's side - fail to tell you it has been that way for at least a month - and say "this is our first casualty on Key West". I hate that these @zzez show the same blurbs non stop and work everyone into a frenzy. It's this type of "cry wolf" news broadcasting that tends to make people ignore warnings when a real storm hits.
I loved Fox news last night trying their best to find someone in a panic over the storm (Tampa Bay). They found one guy at THD buying a flashlight and practically goaded him into saying it was in preparation for Fay. The guy was probably buying it because the flashlight/ 6V battery combination is $3.95, where a regular 6V battery is $9.95.
I don't usually post on this forum.. but I just had to when I read your post.
I could not agree more with everything you wrote.
It is the same here with over zealous ice and snow storm reporting. And when you finally get sick of it after being wound up one too many times you find yourself stuck without power for three days or driving in deplorable conditions. It's completely unethical.
We stock up on everything, and enjoy the couple of days off! And, if power goes out, we have a hurricane party, and grill up everything in the fridge!
Jacksonville always seems to miss the hurricanes because we're in that armpit. My fear is that everybody is going to keep thinking that way and one day we're gonna get the s#!t knocked out of us. We usually evacuate at least 100 miles inland because we have horses and tin roofs on the barn doesn't mix with horse flesh. As the crow flies we're only about 1.5 miles off the beach so the surge and winds would get us bad. I have a generator and would take the camper so we would have a place to stay. We evacuated to Valdosta, GA in 99 for a hurricane Floyd. My mom reserved 10 rooms about a week before knowing friends and family would need them if we evacuated. Thanks mom . They were used and then some.