There was a picture in the newspaper yesterday that made me roll my eyes. It showed a woman struggling to walk on a North Carolina beach during Hurricane Irene, her stuck white van abandoned on the shore behind her. The caption: ".....wades through floodwaters after abandoning her van in Frisco, N.C. on Saturday. She had driven to see how the Frisco pier was holding up."
Duh. Hello. Where is your thought process, lady? Now let's see. There's a hurricane pummelling your community with 100 mph winds. And you decide it's a good time to check on the pier? What's wrong with you? Do you have some sort of death wish? Or are you just dumb, dumb, dumb?
So many people seem to have this "chase the fire engine" mentality. I don't get it. Get out of harm's way. If you have some official reason to be in the middle of chaos, then okay. But, otherwise, let it be. I speak from experience, learning my lesson when car-chasing a thunderstorm last year and about peeing my pants in the middle of a lightning strike. Don't mess with Mother Nature or fire engines and ambulances. Seek shelter and stay there, whatever the catastrophe may be.
The Flaming Bore has some parting words of wisdom to start out this week: Hey, you silly North Carolinans, stay off the damned beach!!
2 comments:
obviously this is Darwinism at work, survival of the fittest. this scholar should have been washed out to sea. as it is, some police or fire fighter probably had to risk their safety to get her to a safe place. believe me, this North Carolinian stays away from rip tides and high winds (but my Kansas genes do turn on tornado alert at times!!)
I figured you'd get a laugh out of this---especially since you're inland and don't have to deal with the hurricanes.
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