The Old Folks Home

[Wickedchicken6]

Good morning everyone!!!!

 

[chickadoodles]

Good morning.

I do love the new avatars!

 

[microchick]

Morning, Wicked and every one else.

Too funny waking up to the story about duck ummmmm dingalings. The way my hens scream and run from my roosters when they give them the wink and wing dance, you'd think they had the same anatomy challenges to overcome.

 

[chickadoodles]

 

[getaclue]

I'm a native Floridian, but have lived other places, and I still prefer living here in Florida. As to it being hurricane central, not true. We get hit with a fairly good one, on average of every 15 years. Most natives know to buy high, and dry property, and where it is, from experience. We know to clear any trees too close to the house, and to get the rest trimmed, and shaped by the end of August each year. Most of us natives know to stay prepared for a hurricane. Few of the transplants do any preparation until just prior to the event, which is why the gas stations, grocery stores, and hardware stores are emptied out, and too many people are unable to get what they need when it hits.

That being said, no matter where you live, sooner or later you will come face to face with a battle against nature, whether it's flood, drought, tornado, earthquake, ice storms, etc. Hurricanes here in Florida are not usually as bad as the media makes them out to be, and the politicians are only screaming for lots of disaster money, which most people never see.

 

[chickadoodles]

During the 3 years I lived there I got hit with 5 hurricanes and Ivan twice in one year.
That was enough to send me packing back to Alabama.
The horror of having to watch them come straight at you for a week or two is more terrifying than any of the earthquakes or tornado's I've dealt with. Thank you very much.
Cuz you don't see them coming and it's over quickly.
I had PTSD forever after those hurricanes. I never want to see or live through that much destruction again.
We were all shell shocked seeing that much destruction. It looked as if the while state got bombed. And having to live in the aftermath for a month with contaminated water no roof or food no gas or power! It was like living in a 3rd world country.
So I'm happy you feel that way but a lot of people don't. Sorry.

 

[CapricornFarm]

During the 3 years I lived there I got hit with 5 hurricanes and Ivan twice in one year.
That was enough to send me packing back to Alabama.
The horror of having to watch them come straight at you for a week or two is more terrifying than any of the earthquakes or tornado's I've dealt with. Thank you very much.
Cuz you don't see them coming and it's over quickly.
I had PTSD forever after those hurricanes. I never want to see or live through that much destruction again.
We were all shell shocked seeing that much destruction. And having to live in the aftermath for a month with contaminated water no roof o food no gas or power! It was like living in a 3rd world country.
So I'm happy you feel that way but a lot of people don't. Sorry.

Were you there in 2004? I think that was the year we had a hurricane every week end. I had to drive through flooded streets once, it was awful. But we were lucky in Bradenton, no major impacts yet.

 

[chickadoodles]

I was there from 2001-2004.
I bought a place in Alabama with my Feema money in 2005.
It was the end of the year in 2001 and the first of the year I 2005.

 

[getaclue]

Been here since 1956, was a kid when Donna hit, and have been here for every hurricane since, except 1. Went without power during a few of them, the longest being right at 3 weeks, and did it with 3 young daughters. No big deal. Contaminated water? Everyone is warned by the media all year long, to have their own supply of 4 gallons of water, per person, per day, for at least 2 weeks (I do at least 6 gallons per person, per day, for 3 weeks.), as part of their hurricane preparedness, and to fill all bathtubs, and sinks just prior to the hurricane hitting, to be used to flush a toilet once a day, and for a handwashing station. Actually, I save Clorox jugs, not to store drinking water, but to fill for handwashing, face washing, PTA, and toilet flushing. Again, a lot has to do with knowing how to prepare, and staying prepared.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have crickets. It's cooling down enough that they are making less and less noise out there. I like hearing a few at nights.

We had one cricket for about 3 weeks it was kinda funny assume it moved from behind the house to the chicken yard and was eaten

Actually, I save Clorox jugs, not to store drinking water, but to fill for handwashing, face washing, PTA, and toilet flushing. Again, a lot has to do with knowing how to prepare, and staying prepared.

prepare in the key word we fill gallon milk jugs here, yes with Seattle being on the fault line we will shake, rattle, roll but not so damaging as far away as it is we are like 4 hours from Seattle but love it that way