Resource: an essay on experiencing hurricanes.

[full_metal_ox]

https://mylordshesacactus.tumblr.com/post/619182104336613376/a-writers-guide-to-hurricanes-i-guess?is_related_post=1#notes.

This comes courtesy of Florida resident mylordshesacactus on Tumblr; here are some excerpts:

Do not think for a moment that just because you’re “only” experiencing Cat 1 winds that this storm can’t kill your ass dead. Do not

Comments

[longlivehumour]

Really nice reference, thank you!

[full_metal_ox]

Happy to be of service-the whole thing is a masterpiece of shuddersome poetic eloquence infusing lived experience.

I can personally attest that Hurricane Ike (September 2008) would have been better named Inigo-because nobody here in Ohio was expecting the Spanish Inquisition. We’re old hands at dealing with tornadoes, but those are swift, short-lived, and narrowly focused in their destructive power (the 2019 Memorial Day tornadoes were so devastating because they came in an unrelenting conga line-some areas were hit by up to 21.) Not so hurricanes: the breadth of the damage is how we got absolutely blindsided-that and the axiom that Hurricanes Are The One Thing That Does Not Happen This Far North And Inland.

[cuddyclothes]

WOW!!!

[full_metal_ox]

Indeed: a simultaneous PSA, regional trench poem, and paean to the vast indifferent power of Nature.