I filled in an early voting ballot, and now I don’t have to go to the schoolhouse and stand in line while everyone votes for Kamala Harris. Who did I vote for? That’s for me to know and everyone to find out on November 5th. I don’t know where I’ll be on voting day, so it’s better to mail it in now.
The hurricane known as Milton is still barreling down towards Florida where it is still scheduled to make landfall around midnight in Tampa tonight. I’m writing this on Wednesday night, but I’ll update it in the morning. I have watched the weather reporters screaming into the wind today. A lot of people want to see them blown off screen if the truth be known, but that hasn’t happened yet. As of 7 pm tonight it has been downgraded to a category three.
Some dude named Mohammed Nijem has battened down his roof with the kind of strap ties that truckers use to hold their load on. Good luck with that chief.
Elsewhere there are hold outs who stubbornly refuse to leave. I would probably be one of those people. When Tampa Mayor Jane Castor starts telling residents in mandatory evacuation zones that “If you choose to stay … you are going to die.”, some people just want to say, “I don’t give a shit what you think.”, especially when they find out that Castor was a member of the Republican Party until 2015 when she became a member of the Democratic Party. She can’t be trusted in my opinion.
Her latest warning I just read on the NY Post was, “if you do not leave your home, “that’s the coffin you’re in.” She seems somewhat of an alarmist to my way of thinking. There’s only a few old dudes who are probably Trump voters left there anyway. Why should she care? In Charlotte County, north of Sarasota, Sheriff Bill Prummell warned anyone planning on staying to write their name, date of birth, and next of kin on their bodies with permanent marker to assist with corpse identification. OOOH scary!
I’ve been down around that area. It’s very warm and beachy. There are some wealthy areas around Fort Meyers. It’s hard to get to the beach and there’s no parking. I kind of liked Florida, although I’ve not spent a lot of time there. There are many thrift stores full of old people’s stuff. It figures, since it’s the final destination for a lot of retirees from up north. I saw many senior ladies in bikinis, and some of them were in good shape.
I’ve been to Melbourne on both sides of the globe. Melbourne Florida is named after Melbourne Victoria. The city, formerly called “Crane Creek”, was named Melbourne in honor of its first postmaster, Cornthwaite John Hector, an Englishman who had spent much of his life in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Cornthwaite, now there’s a name that’s fallen out of fashion.
Melbourne, Florida is a lot smaller than the other one, and it’s quite dull, or least when I was there about seven years ago. But Melbourne should be safe from the hurricane, or “hurricun”, as the Aussies pronounce it. Melbun vs Mel-born if you will. There’s nothing dramatic happening right now. The storm hasn’t really hit yet. I’ll update this in the morning. Update: As Hurricane Milton moves away from Florida’s east coast, Gov. Ron DeSantis said that it appears so far that the hurricane’s impact wasn’t as disastrous as many had feared — in part because it weakened prior to making landfall. It was largely a fizzer.
Trams like this were everywhere in Melbourne when I was there many years ago.
Twinkle twinkle lucky star
In other news, the Beebs is reportedly ‘in a hard place mentally’ following Poof Diddly’s arrest. Who can blame him? Will we ever get to the bottom of it? The more we find out about the Diddler, the worse it gets. Harvey Weinstein is starting to look like a choirboy in comparison.
Hillary Clinton fan and country legend Merle Haggard