Comments on: Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ernesto http://scribler.in/hurricanetropical-storm-ernesto/ Where Technology & Liberal Arts Meet Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:27:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: thinkodd http://scribler.in/hurricanetropical-storm-ernesto/#comment-388 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:22:00 +0000 http://scribler.net/hurricanetropical-storm-ernesto/#comment-388 Hurricanes are predicted so far ahead that the waiting can get tedious. But whatever preparations you make this time can still be used next time if you don’t need them. Why not use Hurricane waiting as a reason to create a memory such as an impromptu trip to a park or library to stock up on books. OR an excuse to snap pictures of flowers or trees or sunsets or puddles that may not be there when the hurricane is done. Use it as an excuse to bake something (so you will have it ahead) or make food ahead or do something to fill the hours.

I live in Ohio Valley in tornado country and my daughters and I have been in the midst of or actually watched four or five tornados touching down (had actual house damage from one and trees down in my yard from another). There was usually less than 30 minutes warning and sometimes not even that and frequently little to no time to get to a place of safety. My youngest daughter now lives in the heart of hurricane country and she says she much prefers the advance warning and being able to seek shelter and get prepared to sitting terrified unable to get away. Somehow I feel she is right but I can’t seem to escape this Valley no matter how hard I have tried. Maybe someday…. there is still hope.

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