IT LOOKS LIKE FLORIDA will get its first hurricane of the season this coming week. The forecasters have it coming right at me. Watching Floridians prepare for an approaching storm is like witnessing atoms being tossed about in a mass spectrometer. They’re bouncing all around, converging on gas stations, banks and grocery stores in a panic, gassing up, withdrawing emergency cash, and emptying the shelves of perceived necessities for hunkering down. Sales of generators go way up. Important records and papers are tucked away in waterproof containers. Children are warned to cancel any plans to leave the house. I suppose the fanatically religious break out the prayer beads and bibles, oblivious to the fact that God has already set the hurricane in motion and established its predictable path of destruction. As the storm closes in, it tends to dominate the verbal exchanges of the people living in the area. Of course, there is nothing unusual about the weather being a dominant topic. “Don’t knock the weather,” said Kin Hubbard. “If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.” So here comes the tropical storm named Ian. I can only hope that the big trees that surround my home remain standing, and that loss of power is the worst thing we suffer as the storm assails the state.
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