By late November the daylight hours in Northern New England would be but a short and sweet nine and one half hours before darkness came again . I remember years ago leaving my construction jobs at 3:30 p.m. and driving an hour home to walk into the already semi dark house and needing to turn the lights on by 5 o’clock . That’s exactly how it felt yesterday when I walked into my home in SW Florida at 2:30 in the afternoon and needed to turn the lights on because I’d just installed all the storm shutters over the windows in fear of yet again another hurricane .
That’s what people do in Florida , we install window protection and fight crowds for water and toilet paper before it’s all gone in a flash of panic buying frenzy and then we line up in long ques for gasoline when ever it looks like there is danger on the horizon . That’s what we’ve all been doing yet again over the past couple of days . Should you drive to Florida down the interstate you might notice the signs on the Georgia / Florida border … Welcome to the Free State of Florida … frankly at this point I think Welcome to the “State of Emergency” would be more appropriate considering how many times our Governor has had to declare one over the last two or three years .
Another major storm is on the way and who knew this could be possible after all we’ve already endured and haven’t even started cleaning up the mess from the last one ? Well … I might not have known, nor you, but Scientists and Meteorologists have been warning us all year long this is going to be a year to remember . In fact they’ve been warning us of this likelihood for decades . But you can’t trust Scientists . Our recent political leadership has not only warned us but convinced half of that Scientists have a political agenda . And now the cat has been let out of the bag as a current member of Republican leadership in Congress has done her duty and informed us all that ….
“They” can control the weather …. and that’s why Republican states and counties get hit the hardest ” she adds in the warning that we shouldn’t believe the lies of anyone telling us “they’ can’t .
Why should we not believe her ? I mean, it’s obvious she’s not an educated scientist with a political agenda that we shouldn’t trust . Perhaps she has sound reason to warn us of the dangers of living in predominantly Republican run area’s. The man across the road is fond of telling me how all of this weather differences we’ve seen experiencing is a cyclical thing and perhaps he’s right …. I just wish the cycle hadn’t been turned to spin and would slow it’s pace down just a little .
I got a phone call from someone who swears to never read this blog with the claim she’s concerned about the wife and I but she really wanted to tell me all about how pissed she is that Biden’s administration is holding back aide to areas predominantly Republican . I know exactly where she got this and don’t we all . Those are the words of Donald Trump who’s performing his election campaigns in hurricane and flood devastated areas and telling the world people in North Carolina can’t even get drinking water.
Meanwhile here in Florida in a brilliant show of political gamesmanship our Governor has made no secret that so far has refused to take calls or meet with either the President or Vice President claiming they would attempt to turn all this recent devastation political…..
I’m not sure America really deserved people like this … but it did ask for them. On a happier note the lady who walks her dog past my house every morning has just had her new roof completed yesterday two years and a week since a previous hurricane removed it and is pleased she still doesn’t have enough drywall in the house to worry about.
