... headed towards North America. Sad, sad sad. It is tragic, and somehow unavoidable. Choosing to not watch the disaster unfold on television is most likely for the best. Today, right now would be a perfect time to quit your TV addiction. Unless you are one of those who gets some perverse pleasure from slowing down to observe all the mangled damage after a train wreck.
I rarely look at television, but with a man here who loves to fret about the weather, there in ample information about the impending crisis. He also gets great pleasure from posting warnings and sharing distressing information about things he cannot change. We are on fairly high ground, so I choose to not be alarmed, even though there have been times in recent memory when our street was so inundated we had to take a detour to get home. I am not going to devote my time to worry about things I cannot control.
The thought that stays in my head, twisted though it may be: if you build your house on sand, and specifically on the unstable footing near a gigantic body of water, you should not be surprised. If you chose to buy a condo., build a high-rise, invest in real estate in southern Florida or the Caribbean, at sea level, expect the sea to come and take it away. That is as certain as gravity. Sooner or later, you will loose your house, land, everything when the ocean turns it all back into a swamp.
It is distressing to see, hear about all those people who are underwater, mostly lost everything. I heard a statistic earlier this week that half of a million homes were uninhabitable in south Texas. That is a lot of people living in shelters, camping out with the in-laws in cramped housing, needing food, clean clothing, baths. And another one is bearing down on south Florida, flattening everything in it's path.
Thankful to have a safe, dry house, with a new roof, and warm comfy bed not floating down to the Gulf of Mexico. Thankful for plenty of food, potable water, laundry detergent, washers and dryers, electricity on demand. Very thankful to be living at an elevation high enough to feel safe.
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