Happy 21st Day Of May!

[Cleo]

Yeah I pretty much agree with you Alex.

I'm planning for a few more years of bad storms. I've trimmed all my foliage way back and toped all of my trees really short. Stocked up with plenty of fuel and a generator. Storm shutters on everything. The only thing that I regret is going with clay S tile roof instead of a metal roof that I did two years ago after damage from the first storm. I see many of the newer houses going with metal roofs now and I've seen them in the Keys for many years. The clay roofs look real pretty but the tiles break when something flies into them and the tiles break into real sharp pieces.

Many houses down here still with blue tarps over their roofs and lots of storm damage from the last four that hit our area. Many people are still fighting with their insurance companies and haven't even started on any repairs yet. Much of our electric grid looks like something out of a third world country with makeshift repairs all over it. It's going to be really bad if we get hit again with so much still unfixed from the last ones.

Mostly I'm dreading being without utilities again for weeks and even higher insurance rates on top of storm related expenses.

Weather all over seems to have turned much more violent. My neighbor's daughter who lives in Oklahoma keeps on having to go down into her tornado shelter that is in her garage's floor under where she normally parks her cars. Kind of grim not knowing if your home is going to be destroyed a several times each year when you hear sirens going off. Almost makes our hurricanes not seem so bad.