It's almost 'cane season!
That's right, pretty soon June 1st will be upon us Floridians, the start of hurricane season.
It's also Sebastian's birthday.
He gets such a kick out of the fact his day is the day the people in this state start to panic.
I myself don't panic, but it's the day I start my 'cane supply stocking.
Every trip to the grocery store, I buy at least 5 cans of spaghettios, a gallon of bottle water, and some non-perishable dry snack foods like those cheese and cracker packs, beef jerky sticks etc.
We hardly ever get hit with a hurricane (knock on wood) here on the suncoast, but I always make sure that if we do, I have plenty of food and water on hand for the teens and I.
We never use it during season because we never get hit, but at the end of season, we have so much food and snack foods to eat, I end up sending it to school for the teachers to hand out as snacks.
The only thing I don't have but wish I did, are some exterior shutters.
It would be nice to have shutters that could be opened during off season to let in light and air, but when a hurricane is coming, be able to go out and close them and secure them with a big padlock or something.
i don't ever have anything on my windows to stop debris from coming crashing in.
I did have some plywood one year, but I was taking it down one day and getting ready to store it in the shed when the phone rang.
I came in the house to answer it, and when I came back out, all my plywood was gone.
Yes, people steal plywood here because it's so expensive to buy for your windows, and when panic sets in, it's hard to get because stores like Home Depot and Lowe's run out.
I'll figure something out for this years storm season.
