The Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology Project recently issued its 2018 hurricane season forecast. They are calling for 14 named storms, seven hurricanes and a whopping three major churners this season. (\u201cMajor churner\u201d is meteorological lingo for \u201cWatch out \u2018cus your hindquarters might wash away!\u201d) <\/p>\n
Colorado State\u2019s latest prediction prompted all of the tropical world to ask: Why are a bunch of ski bums out West talking to us about hurricanes?!? They\u2019ve never been in the cone of uncertainty! We don\u2019t go and make blizzard predictions for them! Why do they have to ruin our otherwise peaceful spring? Or at least, can\u2019t they use more comforting language. They could have said: \u201cExpect a slightly above-average chance of wind ripping your roof off. Oh, and maybe look into what a truck-load of canned meat costs.\u201d Would that be so hard? <\/p>\n
Anyway, after two years of storms wreaking havoc on St. Augustine, and with all this talk of hurricane season coming, it has gotten me thinking more seriously about storm planning.
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Like how I might need a 50-gallon drum of emergency water, or a rain barrel to collect what falls from the sky. Forget the fact that even after losing power for a week last year, we still have water bottles stacked up in the pantry. I WANT AN EMERGENCY RAIN BARREL!!! Possibly with a built-in water filter and a shower attachment with optional soap holder. (My shower worked the whole time, but this would be more fun.) <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve found myself doing searches for \u201cemergency supplies\u201d on Amazon. Have you ever done this? It\u2019s really fascinating to see what comes up. For instance, there is a portable toilet seat with a handle. This isn\u2019t high on my list, but the minute my wife reads about it, I\u2019m sure she will order a case. <\/p>\n
There are giant tins of peanut butter powder and tomato powder and \u2014 I\u2019m totally getting this \u2014 a 2 lb. can of freeze-dried pork sausage crumbles. Why aren\u2019t we eating this year-round?!?<\/p>\n
There are flame-less emergency stoves (need about 12 of those) and emergency thermal blankets (need seven of those \u2026 even though it will be at least 97 degrees at night) and an emergency ax with a built-in beer bottle opener. This will look way scarier than the machete I normally sleep with. (I\u2019m thinking about really amp-ing it up this year!!!)<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always wondered what makes people get into \u201cprepping\u201d \u2014 you know, those survivalists who stock up on everything they need to make it through any disaster. I\u2019ve decided it\u2019s not the fear of the apocalypse or zombie attacks. Truth is, it\u2019s because the stuff is so darn cool! A 104-serving emergency food survival pack that comes in a sealed plastic bucket? Are you kidding me: I\u2019ve got to have one. It has a 25-year shelf life and beef stroganoff! I LOVE beef stroganoff!!! <\/p>\n
So, go ahead Colorado meteorologists. Scare us, why don\u2019t you. I\u2019ve got Amazon Prime and plenty of room in my attic for a 50-gallon plastic rain barrel and beef stroganoff that can last until I\u2019m old and gray. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology Project recently issued its 2018 hurricane season forecast. They are calling for 14 named storms, seven hurricanes and a whopping three major churners this season. (\u201cMajor churner\u201d is meteorological lingo for \u201cWatch out \u2018cus your hindquarters might wash away!\u201d) Colorado State\u2019s latest prediction prompted all of the tropical world to ask: Why are a bunch of ski bums out West talking to us about hurricanes?!? They\u2019ve never been in the cone of uncertainty! We don\u2019t go and make blizzard predictions for them! Why do they have to ruin our otherwise peaceful spring? Or at least, can\u2019t they use more comforting language. They could have said: \u201cExpect a slightly above-average chance of wind ripping your roof off. Oh, and maybe look into what a truck-load of canned meat costs.\u201d Would that be so hard? Anyway, after two years of storms wreaking havoc on St. Augustine, and with all this talk of hurricane season coming, it has gotten me thinking more seriously about storm planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,558,569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-nutshells","category-florida","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}