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If It’s Just Raining Like Cats ‘n’ Dogs, That’s a Win
Dorian is inbound. Bottled water is gone from the grocery stores. Gas lines are hours long, and every gas station I’ve seen today has a police patrol car stationed at it, probably to encourage civility. People are putting up shutters or boarding up their windows.
The problem with Dorian is that the cone covers a huge part of FL. Hey, man, don’t tell me you can predict “climate” 40 years out when you can’t even predict the path of a hurricane four days out.
We did our hurricane shop last night — which was the coolest hurricane shopping I’ve ever done. The lovely and talented Mrs. Mongo and I shacked up the list, pulled up the Publix app, and boom! Two hours later the driver showed up with our groceries. Who can do that in a socialist country? Well, maybe if you’re a Party bigwig.
To get out of harm’s way, we’d have to leave the state, so we’re going to ride this one out. Hopefully, we’ll be catching bands of winds and rain, but not suffer hurricane effects.
I wrung some fun posts out of Irma, but I have zero desire to work through that sort of devastation again. So Labor Day is going to be less a happy holiday, and more a hunker-down-and-pray kind of weekend. Too, we’re in our “cozy” house now (the lovely and talented Mrs. Mongo decreed that I have to say “cozy house,” not “tiny house”) so that’ll be fun.
The silver lining is that I’ve got a bit of a wee story I’ve been mind mapping for a couple of weeks without lifting a finger to actually, you know, write it. Maybe this’ll give me the time and motivation to post another story.
If I have internet. And electricity.
And a house.
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Man, if I had all the money that the Lovely and Talented Mrs. Mongo has plowed into Yankee Candles over the years…
Ah, never mind. I’d still be broke; but the house wouldn’t smell as piney-fresh as it does.
For what it’s worth I love having a whole bunch of “warm” color temperature fairy lights spread all over. It’s indirect light, but the bang for your buck is incredible. It’s basically like a candle.
The other thing I like is the Stryker Flex it light.
Battery powered?
FWIW, I like real kerosene-burning hurricane lanterns. Put some eucalyptus or citronella oil in the kerosene and they do double-duty warding off Georgia’s pesky insectoids.
Yes. It’s one of those disc batteries. I assume it lasts a long time, but I’ve never needed to find out. I’m sure Amazon lists how long they last. You can configure them different ways to throw light in different ways.
The Stryker is AA. It’s a very pleasant and very bright light, but those things are really expensive. Like almost $30. The neat thing is they’re totally flat so they don’t take up any room.
What I mean is, you can put them on shelves, stick them in jars, or in boxes to throw light different ways.
Here is a dependable Bahamas charity.
These guys are sending retired military to The Bahamas.
Team Rubicon is sending 100 guys to The Bahamas.
“Your honor, I thought I saw a gun in his hand and I feared for my life and the lives of my family”.
I just the watched a video on Fox News of the devastation on the Bahamas. I watched a second one by a Salvation Army representative who described the terror of being on the island with the storm beating down for 18 hours. I can’t even imagine it. Looking at the pictures–it reminds me of the tsunami in Japan. Those poor people. The Salvation Army is on the scene and would be appreciative of any donations, large or small, anyone can make to help the people in the Bahamas.
I just saw it too. Just awful.