Afternoon,
Guys…
So, last
night, wed had a string of thunderstorms come through, bringing lightning, wind,
rain…and, hail. It was coming from the
West, moving to the Northeast, so it was slamming into our bedroom window. Thank God, this morning, I didn’t see any
splinters, but, damn. This made me think
of the reports I’ve been hearing on the revised death tolls of Hurricane Maria’s
devastation on Puerto Rico from its landfall last year to the subsequent
fallout. It’s craziness, the NY Post reporting between
800-8,500! Good God!
Now, I’ve
never been, but if you’ve been following us, I’m of Puerto Rican descent. My bios were from the island, and I was born
in the Bronx. My folks’ve been there,
and they tell me it’s beautiful. I’ve
got FB friends too from there that visit regularly, and I love seeing the pics
they post.
But, getting
back to the hurricane devastation, we, in the US, can’t fathom that level of
death. We had Hurricane Katrina, which
decimated New Orleans, but nothing of what we’re hearing out of there…not that
I’m minimizing that. Death is death.
How to
prevent this type of apocalyptic death toll from happening again? Well, there’s no definite way to ensure
Mother Nature won’t hand our asses to us again.
Scary when we, as humans, need to be in control, and the hardcore fact
is we can’t.
We just can
look out for ourselves and each other.
Be good to
each other.
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