I live in southern Louisiana. A place that has 2 seasons - Lovebug season and Hurricane season. Neither one I enjoy. Lovebug season sucks because they are everywhere and seem to only live long enough to splattter all across the front of my car. Thousands of them die each day I drive to work and back. But with all my efforts to perform lovebug genocide, they just keep coming back each year.
The other season is worse. Hurricane season puts panic in the lives of those who do not originate from here. This panic comes from the slow buildup of the hurricane. You see, hurricanes just don't happen, then move slowly across the water. They never have a predetermined course. They often change their direction several times before eventually coming ashore. With all the slow events that take several days to carry out the media warns us of all the terrible things that could happen. How we must evaucate now to avoid the mass exodus from the cities. It is these scare tactics that make evacuations so hard to do. The hurricane does not come barreling in at some unfathomable speed, it comes in at 10-15 miles an hour. Just escape people if you feel you must, but just not all at once.
Hurricanes can be a very distructive force. People can be injured and may possibly die from hurricane related accidents. But I think that if we took precautions and did not do stupid things, then less would be a casualty of a hurricane. I really don't need the home footage of the winds blowing the the signs around while you watch from the deck of your 20' boat in the middle of the hurricane.
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