Some awesome boards from Wooden Board Day 2011, a very cool project for those of us who like our drinks fizzy, and as bad as things look the Long Now blog points out that a lot of stuff is getting better...
Being that it's "H" season we tend to follow the possible weather on a regular (though some might use the word obsessive) basis. Right now, as I write this, two potential storms are barreling across the Atlantic in our general direction...
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There's always a lot of talk about how to prepare for a storm but very little information on preparing for the aftermath of a big storm. If you are unlucky enough to get hit by a hurricane the aftermath can often be worse than the actual storm and trust me, it is something you want to give some serious thought to.
For instance, down here in the Caribbean we take certain shortages as something of the normal state of being... Just recently, here on St Croix, there was no cat litter (of the clumping sort) available anywhere on the island. Before that it was toilet paper and last time we were in St Martin the McDonald's had run out of Big Mac buns... It's all part of being at the ass end of the supply chain...
When something as nasty as a hurricane comes along it is hardly surprising that shortages and suchlike get even worse, and when you throw in the fact that communications go down and such things as ATM's don't work... Well, it does tend to get messy and not in a good way.
So, throughout "H" season we tend to keep the boat well stocked, water tanks full and a reasonable amount of dollars on hand just in case it takes a couple of weeks to get back to normal after a storm.
Listening to Jackson Taylor and the Sinners
So it goes...
