Al Gore Takes A Wide Stance

Hurricane Season Craps Out...


Well, it looks like that we wasted about $600 this year buying windstorm and flood insurance on our possessions--first the condo and now the new house.

All and all, I still think that it was money well spent, having survived losing everything to a house fire a few years ago. When you buy insurance, you're rolling the dice. You're betting that you are going to have a loss greater than the cost of the insurance and the deductible, and the insurance company is betting that you don't have any problems and they get to keep your money.

This hurricane season the insurance company won, and Al "Owl" Gore and his global catastrophe followers are still crying in their tofu this morning wondering how Mother Nature could let them down so severely not one, but TWO HURRICANE SEASONS IN A ROW.

I swear to God people, the more we know, the less we understand about the way things work...at least when it comes to listening to the media and the so-called "experts" that are held up for media scrutiny.

Take the current rainfall situation here in the south, for instance.

If you listen to the news, it's going to take an act of Congress and intervention by the United Nations and NATO to refill the reservoirs around Atlanta. The entire state of Alabama is likely to spontaneously burst into flame, and every one's colon's are going to drop out of their pants legs in South Carolina due to a lack of fiber in their diet due to drought induced crop failures.

It's just not so...

We've been through the exact same situation before, and we'll see it again, yet the media and the morons of the world all have short memories and alternate agendas that require that they play a little downturn in the precipitation schedule into some kind of national disaster requiring emergency relief and tax credits.

I'm sorry, but I was alive back in 1987, and that year I was looking at buying a Ski Boat and Lake Altoona and Lake Lanier lieing just north of Atlanta each had 20' wide rings of red clay showing around them from the lack of rainfall. Half of the marinas' boatslips were dry and people were running aground in places that normally had deep water covering the rocks and stumps in a normal season.

By 1990 when I finally bought my first boat, the weather patterns had reversed and that year, when I finally acquired my 20' Bayliner, IT RAINED EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND FOR ALMOST TWELVE WEEKS IN A ROW.

Then in 1993 we had the great March Blizzard and that same year the Mississippi River and most of it's tributaries jumped out of their banks and flooded everything from Minnesota to New Orleans.

It was a six year cycle from low to high, but the rain came back--unfortunately all at once.

That's why they call it AVERAGE RAINFALL.

It's an AVERAGE.

That's A V E R A G E.

Got it?

Since we didn't have any land falling hurricanes here in the US this season, we also didn't get much rain. Texas got that one crappy tropical storm that flooded the crap out of part of the state, but the rest of the southeast and Atlantic Seaboard has been dry.

Imagine that?

If the Hurricanes had come, the news would be DEATH and DESTRUCTION rather than drought and parched tongues.

Understand?

Now go get something done worthwhile, and ignore the media's BS on the weather. Ive got copper to solder and research to do...