A Storm's Coming in Title

And I don’t mean a metaphorical one either.

Hurricane Irma, said to be possibly the most powerful hurricane in the Atlantic ever, is set to hit our state by this weekend. Governor’s already declared a state of emergency. Judging by what it’s done to the Caribbean so far, things don’t look too pretty. Hell, our state hads hardly recovered from Hurricane Matthew last year. I think we still have a few roads out of commission. I just hope it doesn’t hit us as hard.

Maybe Florida will take the brunt of the impact. I mean, that’s the only reason we haven’t sawed Florida off the map yet to float off into the ocean, right? They gotta act as that buffer.

People at work are either dangerously dismissive towards it, or are losing their ever loving minds. Half of the people you ask either give you this sort of scoff like “Yeah, right, we’re hardly gonna get any rain from it,” and the other half are damn near convinced the entire eastern seaboard will be underwater come Monday. AKA: The same way people were when Hurricane Matthew came our way. Guess that never changes. I find myself somewhere in the middle. During Matthew, I was dumb enough to think it wouldn’t be bad. In my defense, NOBODY could have predicted Matthew. It was just supposed to hit the southern part of the state then just roll off back into the Atlantic. It didn’t.

Matthew threw out the power in my city for a week. I was enrolled in some uppity university at the time (it didn’t work out) and I barely managed to make it back home before the roads got shut down. I was supposed to work the next day, but my supervisors can bite me. There was no way I was going out in that. The university, since they didn’t have power, had class cancelled for the week, so that was neat. When I got back to my parents’, I hunkered down in my room and didn’t leave for several days. As if leaving was an option; all of our roads were gone or under water.

Either way, I’ll be more prepared this time. Will update as the situation changes, if at all. Hopefully this will all just go away soon.

-Oriole.