When I was in the eighth grade, there was a hurricane headed for my area. The administration of my school followed the weather reports carefully, and a little before lunchtime on that day, they sent us all home.
Pretty much as soon as we all got there (it took some doing to get at entire school home mid-day on an hour's notice), the skies cleared up. Turns out, the hurricane turned out to sea. We all called each other and got together, laughing about how we had a half-day of school cancelled because of a storm that never came.
Ah, the innocence of a middle-schooler who has never seen a real storm. That was all we cared about.
I have never been in a hurricane. I've caught the edge of of a few, and had some major rain/windstorms that have taken down trees all through my neighborhood, put a few through people's roofs and crushed cars. But I've never actually been in a hurricane. And I'm hoping I don't have to start now.
My friends and I like to talk about the weather benefits of the Northeast. The midwest is crazy-cold. LA is nice and mild, but there's smog and earthquakes. Go too far north on the east coast and you get too much snow. Texas... so hot. Florida's great in the winter but crazy in the summer, and they have hurricanes. The lower Northeast, in the NY area, has sort of volatile weather, but nothing dangerous. Right?
My brother was in a tornado about ten years ago. Other relatives in the DC area just went through an earthquake. And none of us want a hurricane.
It's Hashem's world- he shows us that more and more as we try to predict and control it. Sometimes I get pretty scared. We're not in plywood territory, and nobody's evacuating us, but if we'd been down on the Jersey shore like we were this time last year, we'd be leaving now.
We'll see, won't we?
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