Since January I’ve been working for a firm in Florida. And eight months have been amazing, we have moved up with SEO keyword ranking for most our clients by 300% It’s been five days that we haven’t maintained much productivity, but under the circumstances, I won’t press about it.
This super Hurricane Irma, to meteorologists, is like finding an ancient Mayan tomb to archeologists, I believe. This is their Magnum Opus; you can hear the excitement and anticipation in their presentations in the least. They’ve waited for coverage like this all their lives, the male meteorologists probably get an erection.
I watched the reports yesterday and today. I saw live footage of some choice Youtube shares of Irma approaching and amongst others, found a video from Washington Post with four cameras to watch the action. Three were “live” and another was a graph of the winds. Every once in a while I saw the camera move to another place- still grayish and breezy at best. The graph was somewhat mesmerizing with the colors and waves and tiny arrows showing the currents…But watching it can be rather stupefying, you know? After a while, I felt like I was watching the chunks of drive C Defragmenting. Take my word for it if you haven’t done that yourself.
It’s amusing to see reporters trying to withstand high winds. These guys/ gals will crack walnuts with their ass cheeks tomorrow. (So far one got almost blown away by a wind gust as I saw, others barely could stand on their feet sometimes- why do they do that?). The whole idea of a trio of major systems was going on at the same time is something I have never experienced.
Natural disasters are never pleasant but they always fascinated me; Avalanches, Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Infernos, Mudslides, Tsunamis (check out my spooky creepy TV shows list if you care).
Today my preoccupations got much lighter; as I watched a live stream I also joined the coinciding chat. Many folks were saying “fake”. Fake wind, fake rain, fake damage. fake teeth, fake clothes…Certainly, in the same spirit of the White House, I had some fun with that! 
However, in the course of the day what really stood out to me is a video of the news van passing through the streets of Miami. They actually filmed a human being beside some shopping center.
The camera stayed on him for a minute or so and only his dreadlocks twirled in the wind. What I find disconcerting is that they just kept on going. I hope they called the authorities before moving along. Sure the man looks rather shady, but personally, I’d be somewhat disturbed to find him on the list of victims. Maybe he did not hear of the hurricane from being on crack or meth the last few days. Perhaps he’s been there for other storms because he appears unconcerned. I doubt anyone one would trust having him around, and beside a jail cell, where would this guy go? The vehicle started moving again and just a few meters away and around that corner the wind was ripping at 40mph.
The snapshot was “snipped” from a live feed about 8 hours ago.
This is only a lengthier version of my original post on FB from today found at:
Tales of a Chipsy Gypsy 