Hurricanes, EarthQuakes and Bears Oh My!

Well I see that everyone survived the Earthquake/Hurricane nature combo without much ado. I love seeing people panic before a storm. As though buying bread and water will somehow save them. I just once want to see some guy who has stemmed the flow of flood waters into his home with a wall of bread loafs. To that I would say bravo. I like to confuse people when preparing for a storm. Go into the grocery store and buy all the items that just require you to "just add water". Actually that sounds rather logical, scratch that.

I was very excited about the hurricane though cause of all the hubbub. I was fully expecting some torrential downpour that I would have to essentially ride my dining room table to safety. But no such luck. My only real preparation for the storm was cleaning the gutters *hooray!*. But not really. Cleaning gutters sucks, there is a reason people pay other people to clean their gutters. But I got all snuggled up waiting for the storm, Meg asked me if I had brought the lawn furniture in to which I replied "Hell no." cause it is too stable, and frankly I didn't think we'd get much wind. So there I am all snuggled up, waiting for the storm. My goal was to make it to midnight. Nothing fancy, but I figured the fireworks would start by that point. But since NOTHING was happening I decided to go get a pizza which I promptly ate and fell asleep on top of.

So I wake up the next day and come downstairs like it's Christmas and I'm expecting presents (though I don't know why). But I get to the family room where I can look into the back yard or out to the road. Now remember that lawn furniture I didn't want to bother with?



The flipping Hurricane TIDIED IT UP!

So I'm sitting there laughing about this when I turn and see this out the other window.



That sissy rainstorm actually took down half my tree and dropped it square on the spot I park my jeep.
.... or WOULD have parked it. Remember how I went and got Pizza at midnight for shits and giggles? Papa Johns done saved my Jeep cause I parked it about 10 feet forward of where I usually do and it missed it by about a foot.
Swing and a miss nature, swing and a miss.



So needless to say I wasn't too impressed with the weather shenanigans overall, but I LOVED the idiotic way the media handles it. Aside from the picture of people who looked like they were lunging at the cameraman screaming during the earthquake (which I still don't understand how they got cause the Earthquake lasted all of 10 seconds. The person must have bolted for their camera apparently. I call shenanigans!) the best I saw was while I was watching the TV at the gym on mute some news lady, in a creepily dramatic way, pantomiming an earthquake using a Jenga Puzzle as her focus point. Now it might be me but here are some observations 1) Jenga puzzles, unlike buildings, are SUPPOSED to fall over. 2) The earthquake didn't start taking pieces out of buildings in a challenging way, and 3) You don't play Jenga by slapping it to knock it over, we call that cheating or just plain being a moron. I have to wonder what king of budget they gave her. Were they like "you can either have the Jenga Puzzle or the monopoly board" cause apparently all activities in our nations capital can be symbolized using board games.

Oh DC Weather how you do not impress me.