"TIS THE SEASON....
It is now, officially, that time of the year when those who do reside in the State of Florida, usually express their doubt about the mental stability of those people who go back season-after-season,year after year to re-do, re-pair or to totally re-build - only to lose it all in then next hurricane season.
Of course, it is not true that only citizens of the Sunshine State do such things, because,right here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, we have our share of
individuals who insist on building or re-building their new homes right smack-dab in the middle of a known Flood Plain. They ignore serious studies made, even by their own favorite college or university and by favoring the view of the folklorist-fed Eco-nut come to have great faith in believing someone who had a dream about a hundred year flood in the area.
I can, readily, understand and appreciate the urge some people have which makes them want to preserve and sustain the wealth their forebears left them but take notice how the habitual rebuilt dwelling becomes once the progression starts. He gradually shifts into be a builder of make-do, sacrificial pieces designed, made and dedicated to despair, disillusionment and various levels of artistic misery.
It is, perhaps, a good thing to pay a bit of extra attention to the first one or two become they become "dull" and "routine". And they do become just that to people who must meet with the problems as best they can. Every section of nation has such problems. Those persons living in the general area of the Mississippi River system, dwell in what they call "Tornado Alley" and others have - which is more like the narrow strip of clarity at the side of a busy bowling alley than a wider, street-like and a middle passageway between two blocks of man's properties and a haven for tomcats by tradition. Other areas, just as unpleasant - leftovers from a time of industrial and seen as being indicative of "growth" and "progress" The slums, the orgasmic stench from landfills and reclamations are very real problems locally.
Give the choice, most of us would probably rather face the savage but obvious strength of the sea and the winds of the Caribbean sweeping in vast field of energy and adventure.
A.L.M. June 11, 2005 [c411wds]
