If you live in the Northeast, you are used the wintertime hype of each and every storm. Of course, because if you are old enough to remember the Blizzard of 1978 (the Big One) and the subsequent April 1st blizzard and many nasty nor'easters that come through, you almost understand that the meterologists will always overstate the potential for disaster rather than understate it. I'm from the Northeast and the snow and blizzards are all weather phenomenon I am used to dealing with.
I am currently in residence in Florida and for the first time, I have hurricanes to worry about. Well, one particular hurricane at the moment. A big, bad category 4 hurricane named Dean with the potential to reach a category 5.
I refuse to worry about things that I cannot change or affect. Tomorrow, I need to print out photos of the animals. Tomorrow also provisions will be purchased - just in case. I already have enough animal food to hold my pets through a two week emergency. The family already has enough bottled water. Tomorrow is just canned food (human!) and the rest of first aid supplies. Strange and stranger down here in swamp land. At times I do so miss the civilization of my New England home, but I do like my new friends here.
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The April 1st snowfall was not a blizzard. A blizzard requires wind. Nor was it subsequent, they were 20 years apart. It took weeks to clean up the '78 blizzard. The April Fool's snowstorm was melted by noon the next day.
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