The Good and the Bad

While most people are looking out to help anyone who needs it after the storm, there's always the few low lifes who crawl out of the woodwork and start looting.  They have no morals so they probably can't help themselves.  It's really shocking to see the difference between the kind of people who will go out of their way and endanger themselves to help and the kind of people who have no qualms about taking advantage of a bad situation by stealing.  It's almost like they're a different species of human beings.

The fact that I don't know anyone who would loot and steal must mean that they are a tiny little minority in our world and that is such a good thing.

I don't know if it's sexist to point out that the vast majority of heroes during the hurricane were men.  I'm sure a few women were in the mix, too, but there is something in the psyche of males that pushes them to take charge during an emergency.  

I'm thrilled that my tin can trailer survived the storm but sad that some of my neighbors' didn't.  When you're a snowbird with a damaged trailer in Florida, the very fact that you aren't there to see to repairs immediately means that there will be further damage from the weather that might make the trailer uninhabitable.  We are all aware of that but live in the hope that we'll be the lucky ones.  I was...this time.

Shelley and John haven't returned to their house in Tampa yet so we don't know if it suffered any damage.  I thought it was cute that Nicole made a trip into Orlando to pick up her unfinished wedding dress and took it home where she felt it was safer during the storm.

Everyone will manage somehow.  Most will repair and carry on but some will have to find new homes.  Unfortunately, there were also a few fatalities and they've gone to their final reward.

The southern states are a beautiful place to live because of the weather but, because of the weather, they have their faults, too.  I prefer the seasons we have in Canada but could do without the winter months.  This year I'll spend them in Florida but one year soon I won't be able to do that.

We do what we can.