So wow been MIA a bit. Well work sucks...I have inherited a WHOLE NEW job...on top of my current job....with no extra pay...which is hard anyway because pandemic. If any of you can figure out how to get extra hours in the day...I'm all ears.
Oh and 2020 just keeps bringing the weird...f**ked up...insanity. I don't even know what I missed. But I live in hurricane central so that's been fun.
Laura just steam rolled the Western side of LA. I mean Katrina was bad. Gustav was bad. Isaac was bad. This B**CH said hold my beer and just ...*GAH*.
If I remember correctly she is the 1st storm to make landfall AS A STRONG CAT 4 in western LA. A meteorologist was asked how you prepare for a cat 4 or cat 5...? His response, "honestly after you get to a Cat 3 it doesn't matter. It's going to be catastrophic. There is going to be significant damage and loss of life. Just...just get out." And this B...it was so bad. The level of destruction....I saw it first hand...about a week after landfall. My heart just broke for everyone. I was having some serious PTSD. You would think after being through so many storms you get numb to the destruction...but you don't.
I walked into a house and the smell of wet insulation/sheetrock/carpet slapped me in the face. I was immediately thrown back 8 years...11 years....15 years....I was there again. I was picking through a flooded house...I was helping move a tree off a house...I was watching my people sob because it was all gone. Then I was back to myself...in the present seeing more of my people trying to cope with losing everything.
So we did what we always do. We banded together and we cpicked up the pieces. Because while it sucks...ALOT. What matters is they are alive and well. The house(es) can be fixed.
Now...where I am in East LA is maybe going to get...A TON OF F**KING rain from another biotch. Sally seems to have a target on us. She isn't strong (and hopefully it stays that way) but she's moving slow and has the potential to push alot of water inland, along with a possible 10-20 inches of rain.
At the 10PM update, she shifted more east. And honestly...I hope she keeps doing that (sorry MS/AL).
I don't wish this crap on anyone.
And before you say "well if you know a hurricane is going to destroy your area...MOVE!" That's stupid. There are natural disaters...EVERYWHERE. There are earthquakes in the West, tornado alley in the Mid West, Blizzards in the North..hurricanes and flooding in the south...and currently freaking WILD FIRES in the west.
You can't escape mother nature...just make sure you can handle whatever one is where you live. Hurricanes are predictable (mostly)....they suck but we can prepare for them. But I will continue to b**tch because...well its 2020....can we get a break please!!?!!??
