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| This post has nothing whatsoever to do with sex, but I likely have your full attention. |
The randomness
continues…
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I am watching this latest hurricane, Florence, with apprehension.
I have a brother in North Carolina. At one point he was right in the center of
the ‘cone’ that shows the probable track of Florence. He is well inland, but
that wouldn’t spare him from the rain of a slow-moving, massive storm. I talked
to him a few days ago, and his concern at the time was tornadoes. The storm has
shifted, and he is now on the northern edge of the cone, but it’s not going to
be any fun.
Am I wrong to tire of what I think is the
over-hyping of these storms? I am not minimizing the danger monster storms pose. This one may in fact be one of the biggest ever, and
people should damned sure pay attention, but increasingly these things are
media events and in the aftermath, inevitably, political stages.
Hurricanes both destroy and create. Ocean City, Maryland was
once a much quieter place. Before 1870, it was called “The Ladies Resort to the
Ocean.” In 1875 its first major hotel opened, but there was nothing at the time
to suggest it would become the massive resort town and vacation haven it is today.
This changed in 1933, when a hurricane created an inlet that
the Army Corps of Engineers made permanent. The boom began then, as Ocean City
spawned a major fishing port. Some of this I gleaned from spending a lot of
time down there, and some from the city’s Chamber of Commerce page.
Nature waved her hand, and Ocean City as we know it was
born. One day her hand may wave again, and take it all away.
As to Florence, this is a very dangerous storm. If you are
in it’s path, move. It also shares its name with my late Aunt Florence, who I
loved dearly but was absolutely not a woman to piss off.
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I don’t know about you, but I need a double-shot. And once
again, I am going to the bench: the growing field of amazing women who rock my
iPhone. These are a couple of tunes I love. Enjoy them!
First, up Heart:
Next, Joan Osborne:
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