Mother Nature Makes Her Own Rules

August 16,2009 Sunday

MOTHER NATURE MAKES HER OWN RULES

Mother Nature can fool you. She sure gave me a surprise this morning when I woke up to discover that a tropical storm was lurking off the coastline near my home. What? How did this happen? After all I pride myself in remaining informed and vigilant about the approach of any dangerous systems. Some (okay maybe many) people have even classified me as obsessive in my quest to get everyone prepared to evacuate from disasters.

Last night I diligently checked the weather conditions before going to bed. I have been closely watching the tropics and the pipeline of named tropical storms (Ana and Bill) making their way towards the United States. Then I went to bed and slept.

Apparently while I slept Mother Nature changed all the rules. Maybe I just didn't understand the rules. I thought when you counted 1 came first, then 2, then 3, etc.
Mistakenly I also believed the same sequence was followed related to the alphabet. Well I guess not. The first weather system to hit from the tropics will be tropical depression #4 otherwise known as Tropical Storm Claudette. So number 4 and letter C will be first. I know it is confusing.

What does it actual mean to you? It means the gulf coast area will get a great deal of rain. This rain will saturate the ground and fill up or overflow our lakes and ponds. When the big storms in the pipeline actually make landfall sneaky little Claudette will have already weakened our defenses.

What it really means is Mother Nature does what she wants to no matter what we think the rules might be. We all must remember this and prepare accordingly.

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