First of all, I'd like to extend my condolences to everyone affected by the hurricane. Hurricanes are nasty customers. I've never been in one, or even near one, but I suspect I wouldn't handle it very well. First, I love canned food like Vienna Sausages. I'd eat the emergency rations the first afternoon, thus forcing everyone to go hungry until HEB reopened. Also, do you really want to be stuck in a small space with a guy who's been eating canned meat all day long? Second, I hate warm beverages, so I'd probably expose myself to great danger trying to find soem ice. Third, people would get tired of me asking if anyone wants to play 20 Questions.
The only natural disaster I've been involved in is a flood. San Antonio floods regularly, but it was particularly bad a few years ago while I was in college. In fact, it was bad enough that the mayor came on TV asking all employers to let their employees go home for the day. To be honest, I didn't think the flood was that scary. It's pretty easy to thwart a flood; you just walk uphill. Whenever I felt threatened by the waters, I found a jungle gym to hang off of for a few hours. Threat neutralized.
A hurricane is way worse, in that you can't really avoid it and it lasts for a long time. The only other disaster I can recall with similar characteristics is a plague of locusts. I'm glad these disasters aren't sentient, otherwise the hurricane and the plague of locusts could join up and destroy civilization as we know it. I want nothing to do with a Locucane/Hurricust. Do I have an ending here? Not really, except that if you ever see a locust, I recommend killing it, especially if it's reading this website. If the ideas contained in this last paragraph start spreading amongst the locusts, I don't like our chances.
Posted by Cody at August 30, 2005 6:43 PM