{"id":8540,"date":"2024-10-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2024-10-07T18:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T22:20:37","slug":"damn-hurricanes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/damn-hurricanes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DAMN HURRICANES\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Florida hurricanes have been particularly relentless this year. Hurricane Debby in late August flooded our downtown office three or four feet deep, rendering the building uninhabitable at least for now, and destroyed some electronics. Our home out of town was mostly spared, some siding off and some windows broken. (As comedian Ron White says of hurricanes, \u201cIt\u2019s not <em>that <\/em>the wind is blowin\u2019, it\u2019s <em>what <\/em>the wind is blowin\u2019.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less than two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene hit us harder. The roof is completely off the pole barn and one wall completely down. Pieces of the roof blew into my neighbor\u2019s property and up into my trees, one of which makes a whistling sound when the wind hits it. \u201cFlorida wind chime,\u201d so to speak.&nbsp; Another neighbor hundreds of yards away saw his carport wind up in my front yard.&nbsp; We have some trees down on the back of the property that I\u2019m not too worried about, but my favorite live oak in the front yard is looking like Charlie Brown\u2019s Christmas Tree since Helene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now comes Hurricane Milton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were teaching in Texas and Louisiana for Debby and in San Diego for the Gun Rights Policy Conference for Helene. The Evil Princess and I are debating firing up the generator and riding this next one out, or taking the opportunity to visit relatives elsewhere. Days without power are the main vexation apart from the cost of repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And hurricane season still won\u2019t be over for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida hurricanes have been particularly relentless this year. Hurricane Debby in late August flooded our downtown office three or four feet deep, rendering the building uninhabitable at least for now, and destroyed some electronics. Our home out of town was mostly spared, some siding off and some windows broken. (As comedian Ron White says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8541,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions\/8541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}