Oh $&*@! Ernesto is coming
I feel like we're wearing a target on our back. News that Ernesto was aiming at us elicited the same reaction wherever I went this morning.
"Can you believe this?" said one woman at the gym.
I woke up all my children to tell them that we would be in hurricane mode by this afternoon. Any excitement about missing school evaporated as soon as they realized the awful truth: shutters and clean up and sweltering heat. They remember Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma last year. Living in the tropics is getting old fast.
Is it time to move?
"Can you believe this?" said one woman at the gym.
I woke up all my children to tell them that we would be in hurricane mode by this afternoon. Any excitement about missing school evaporated as soon as they realized the awful truth: shutters and clean up and sweltering heat. They remember Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma last year. Living in the tropics is getting old fast.
Is it time to move?
posted by Ana Veciana-Suarez at 8:27 AM
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I grew up in a town called Cumberland, Maryland, which is in a valley in Western Maryland surrounded by the Appalachian Mountains. My mother thought it was a wonderful place because nothing ever happened there--no earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, etc. That was THE PROBLEM--NOTHING ever happened there. We have been blessed that there haven't been more hurricanes and I just have to keep hoping that the weather will settle down. (I don't want to move back!)
My luck.......I just moved from bergen county, NJ. to FL and look what i found on my way, "Ernesto"...that's one of the situation that you have to deal when you look for warm weather. LT
I have been in S.Florida as a tourist last year when Wilma arrived and just want to sent my best wishes to all the people of this beautiful piece of earth, Our thoughts are with you, I´m sure, your gonna get through this Ernesto with the same fighting spirit that you have proved all hurricanes before.
Take care, see ya again in dec.
Ralf (Hamburg / Germany)
My wife and I are in the process of moving to South Florida with our 4-year old. While we're a little apprehensive about what is going to be our first hurricane (actually my wife's first, since she's already working in Miami and my son and I won't be on the ground until Thursday), I'm hopeful that a region so familiar with hurricanes will bounce back as soon as the storm passes. I live (for a few weeks more) in the Midwest and here tornadoes are a regular phenomena, so you're not alone. Once we're fully moved in, the first order of business: go to a local hardware store and pick up some boards/hurricane shutters, et cetera. Good luck Miami and hang in there.
I posted the below comment in your article/notes regarding hurricanes, insurance, taxes and thieves. I am again noting the same reasons in addition to our definite hurricane fatigue. Yes, we maybe in still within hurricane alley, but there is definetely more land to run to. "All of the noted reasons played a major role in our decision to leave Miami earlier this year, that is of 7 adults and 6 children in our family (6 more are on their way). Maybe for now and a while the grass is greener here, hopefully it will not be brown later, but in the meantime we get a breather, and a very nice one. We're outside Houston, TX to its NW. It's just plain great. Miami is great for a vacation outside hurricane season (if you can afford it)."
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