i'm gonna start by saying
you do whatever you need to do
to keep yourself and your family safe
i love you
it feels a little post apocalyptic though
inland hurricanes in the mid-west
california's on fire again
and
oh yeah, i hadn't forgotten it was hurricane season
but two at once is unusual (1933 the last time, apparently)
plus one's headed right for me (potentially)
you can't ever say, not for sure
because they can shift direction and mostly do
but it's five days out and i gotta check the hurricane supplies
all i can think of now is
water
green drink powder (gatorade or powerade)
tequila and margarita mix
tuna and bread
i have soup and stuff
i have a camp stove and propane
but, realistically
if there's a hurricane and the power is out
i'm not gonna cook shit
it's supposed to be twenty years between hurricane hits
like, almost, clockwork
carla, alicia, allison,
but then ike and harvey
ike was less than ten years from allison
allison was really a tropical storm that stalled out
so
that made harvey the almost twenty year
except that it wasn't a hit for us either, exactly
but
the whole climate change thing has gotten it all out of whack
i was worried about climate change before
i had to start worrying about all this
i don't have the same sense of things there
i don't have a real understanding, like you have
having been a long time resident there
i know things get dry
and i know about the santa ana winds
which i found frightening
i've driven in california and seen things burning on the side of the road
and then there were pictures
and video footage
of that shit that looked like driving through a volcano
or hell, or something
fires scare me way more than hurricanes
realistically i'm like seventy miles inland
it's unlikely to make it this far at a cat five
so while sure i could die
it's a lot more likely that my roof will be ripped off
my car will be flooded out
everything i own might be destroyed
but
it's just as likely that it'll hit beaumont or something, ya know
if it hit's beaumont
i probably won't even be on the dirty side of the storm
and we might not even get flooding here, maybe
although regular rain causes flooding, so who can say
whereas, if there are fires
what's stopping 'em?
they could go everywhere, burn everything
but
they don't
most of california is still there
even with the fires and the mud slides and the earthquakes
but how though, i don't get how
and where are the murder hornets
they aren't telling us about them
but that doesn't mean they went away
and
now i'm afraid of portland style para-military at the polls
am i gonna have to worry about rubber bullets at voting
no vote by mail in texas
you can get one if you have an "excuse" for why you can't vote
but fear of covid doesn't count
california is voting by mail
but how will that work for evacuees
maybe they aren't sending out ballots yet
so much to worry about
