Finding My Stride in Life

When I saw the prompt for today...I had to smile a bit. There was a time when I thought I knew the one natural disaster that made me cower, the one that caused me to hide in fear but that was until I visited by this one when we lived in Florida. Yep, anyone who knows Florida probably knows the one I'm about to discuss...briefly. It's almost my sleepy time again and here I am blogging. *mad* I've GOT to do this early in the DAY!!! Yeah, right! Anyone that READS my blog knows I never post till the moon is high in the sky...ok. Back to the post...

So, before we, and I say we, because my husband and son were there at the time this threat of a hurricane came over the Clearwater FL area ( and they NEVER get the hurricane warnings), my greatest fear was of tornadoes. Believe me, I'm not really over them because now I'm out of the threat of a hurricane now since we LEFT Florida not long after the hurricane call, tornadoes can still reach me. But back to the hurricane.

It was crazzzy the day when they actually told the town that a cat 3 hurricane was coming up the coast and was in a direct line for Clearwater and we had NO WHERE to GOOOOOO!!!! Oh, my goodness! My mother in law, went to the hospital for shelter and we went back to our 2nd story apt! Oh, it was a brick structure so most of the people there said we would be safe if something came, even though nothing had come through there. We put grey tape, duct tape for those who don't know what grey tape is, on the windows in a cross pattern. Everyone else was doing it so we did too! We took our son to the main bedroom, put the mattress to the door and watched the news...it was amazing what happened.

The weather man, and he was a TRUE meteorologist, not these phonies I see most of the time, said he saw a slight shift  in the direction of the storm. Oh, I tell you we prayed and watched..and the storm shifted and turned to an easterly direction. The hurricane winds still came up to Clearwater and blew our grill down the breezeway, rattled some windows but we lived. The town it hit was not so fortunate.

I left FL with a HUGE appreciation for hurricanes...even though I've never actually been in one.