Hurricanes and Half-Wits

Well, I am finally back on my blog and hopefully will not have to be subjected to the jeers of my children and friends any longer as being a slacker and never posting.

I have been obsessed lately with hurricanes!! I watch them online from the office, tune into the weather channel when at home, check various cities weather news on XM Radio, etc. Recently while staying with my son and his family in Michigan, I was heard to regularly say "Can you turn on CNN for me or maybe the weather channel?? I want to see what's happening with the hurricane." With the exception of the younger kids, everyone else just rolled their eyes and muttered something about obsessions or crazy old woman or something like that.............You see, the problem was that I could not figure out how to effectively run the remote for their television and dishtv system.................but that is another story. Anyways, I was going through withdrawal while in Michigan and was unable to track the storms every move!! Then it was Charley and Francis and now it is Ivan and Jeanne!! Where will Jeanne track? Will it be our next "big one" here in North Carolina??? Will it hit Florida??? When will the rain start from Ivan?? Will the people up in the mountains of NC flood? And last but not least............................WILL MY GOLF BE CANCELLED FOR SATURDAY???? Since the beginning of hurricane season, we have had our golf cancelled on 4 separate occasions! This is serious stuff!!

Now, if you recall I titled this post "Hurricanes and Half-Wits"...................................the half-wits to which I am referring are a couple in Pensacola, Florida. With Hurricane Ivan looming down upon the city, these intelligent(??) parents decided to take their children down to the beach to have a little "look-see" at what the waves were doing......................hmmmmm, the city officials are asking that folks evacuate their homes and seek shelter as the storm is expected to arrive within the next 8 hrs and these folks think it would be a good time to take a short trip to the beach with their small children!! Thats correct........................they have their very young children down at the shore and are standing in the churning surf!!! Now, any halfway intelligent southerner knows about rips tides and undercurrents during storms..................well, let's just say that the tv camera was rolling on these twits and caught it as the mother lifted her small child into her arms only to be caught by a crashing wave and knocked down into the water!! All the while Dad was watching while holding the hand of another small child himself!! When asked what she had been thinking, she replied that maybe it wasn't such a good idea afterall (gee, ya' think??) and then apologized on camera to her mother, who was watching in horror from home, I'm sure!! It never ceases to amaze me that people will not only risk their own lives but involve the lives of their children!! Maybe sometime I will write about why some people should not be allowed to reproduce............................hmmm........................