All windows will be shattered, annimals and people exposed to the winds will face certain death.
All along I hoped it would rouse the angry seas and swallow Alabama and Mississippi into the Gulf, leaving a vast expanse of choppy, poisoned water in their place. I had visions of a sea bed littered with debris, liquor stores, jails, court houses and trucks being explored and the environmental impact assessed by The Discovery Channel and National Geographic. I dreamt of thousands of fat, bloated, greasy Alabama and Mississippi red necks bobbing in the ocean clutching crucifixes in their cold dead hands, and of a president mourning the loss of the nation's most cherished citizens.
And then I went straight to hell.
Some people decided to ride out the storm rather than evacuate. Mr. Mike Spencer, resident of Mississippi I believe, is one of these people. He claims that he didn't realize it was going to be so bad until his house started filling up with water, forcing him to climb into the attic where he proceeded to kick out the wall and cling to a tree until the weather subsided. The Today Show calls Mr. Spencer, the 60ish dude with the huge smoke stained white mustache who decided to ride out a storm the national weather service was claiming to be the second worst hurricane in history in a house that he was able to kick a wall out of, a "survivor."
I could be wrong, but I think they're mistaken in their application of the word. True, he didn't die, he technically survived the storm, but he also put himself in immediate danger by staying in a house HE COULD KICK THE WALLS OUT OF. And that's the part that really gets me, the part where his house was obviously old and shoddy and unable to sustain 150+mph hurricane force winds. WHAT THE FUCK?! Didn't those people pay any attention to the national weather service warnings? The bitch was coming right for them. Second worst hurricane in history they said.
COME ON.
I mean, staying in a concrete brick bunker is one thing (although still not the brightest idea), but in a house you can kick the walls out of? And when you're at/below/barely above sea level and flooding is obviously going to be a huge problem?
Jesus.
And I wait.
And then I went straight to hell.
Some people decided to ride out the storm rather than evacuate. Mr. Mike Spencer, resident of Mississippi I believe, is one of these people. He claims that he didn't realize it was going to be so bad until his house started filling up with water, forcing him to climb into the attic where he proceeded to kick out the wall and cling to a tree until the weather subsided. The Today Show calls Mr. Spencer, the 60ish dude with the huge smoke stained white mustache who decided to ride out a storm the national weather service was claiming to be the second worst hurricane in history in a house that he was able to kick a wall out of, a "survivor."
I could be wrong, but I think they're mistaken in their application of the word. True, he didn't die, he technically survived the storm, but he also put himself in immediate danger by staying in a house HE COULD KICK THE WALLS OUT OF. And that's the part that really gets me, the part where his house was obviously old and shoddy and unable to sustain 150+mph hurricane force winds. WHAT THE FUCK?! Didn't those people pay any attention to the national weather service warnings? The bitch was coming right for them. Second worst hurricane in history they said.
COME ON.
I mean, staying in a concrete brick bunker is one thing (although still not the brightest idea), but in a house you can kick the walls out of? And when you're at/below/barely above sea level and flooding is obviously going to be a huge problem?
Jesus.
And I wait.