No, I’m not talking about the stock market. Market fluctuations barely ruffle my Zen. They happen. It’s all part of Capitalism. If a market crash causes you to miss meals you’ve been investing in the wrong things. Maybe you should have invested in rice and beans.
The real disaster indicator is when Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel comes to your town. If he shows up wearing a rain coat get the heck out of Dodge and head for high ground.
The stock market is just a bunch of numbers. Storms will directly kill you. Unfortunately there have already been deaths from the storm known as Debby. There are going to be more. Flooding is the main killer during tropical storms and hurricanes. The storm is dumping record amounts of rainfall in places that have bad drainage during the best of times. These are not the best of times.
Monday evening, here in northern New Hampshire, we had some impressive rain storms -again. A trip that normally takes a half hour took a full hour. Visibility was bad and we’ve had numerous road washouts this summer.
At least I already live in hills so there’s no need to head for them.
-Sixbears
In Florida, it isn't so much 'bad drainage', it's a very high water table. . .
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly , all we got here was about an inch and a half of rain . A few tornadoes came through , but none closer than , say twenty miles.
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