Is the Big One on the Way?

Is the big one on it's way? You know, the big hurricane that will wipe out at least a major swath of Florida? You'd think so, because the usual media-hyped-up-train wreck has jumped on the hurricane bandwagon for 2007, now that Hurricane Dean has been named. I like the name Dean - it was my Grandpa Burns' name. He was a nice guy.

It may be on the way for Florida, it might not. As we saw with previous hurricanes, like Charley, things change and they can change fast (didn't do that hard right at Tampa - but instead into Port Charlotte).

I like to see what the meteorologists see and I think I have my own abilities to make some minor analysis of situations involving hurricanes. I go to Hurricane City all the time during hurricane season to see what the other weather-philes think, view the model links, and have a real-time ability to assess the changing weather scenarios that could affect us.

For some reason, my own family never seems to think much of getting really prepped for hurricane season. My dad is a retired engineer with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and he was in charge of flood control for south Florida for a long time - even he doesn't get excited about it all - says we live on a bluff and that we don't need to go anywhere (we live very close to the St. Johns River). But he counts on us women to be sure we have enough food and water to live on.

I just hope everyone is always prepared and keeps an eye on what's going on. Don't be vulnerable to the Boy Who Cried Wolf syndrome.