FLORENCE AND CHARLESTON

FLORENCE AND CHARLESTON

Charleston, SC was one place I wanted to visit this past summer in a sort of Southern road trip. I thought that the location would be a great place for some food, some culture and to see the life of what part of America currently is.  Well, not to make this about me, but it seems that my plans to visit will have to be delayed. As Hurricane Florence has just pointed its path of destruction in the way of that coastal land of Southern food and hospitality.

Reports started yesterday that a mandatory evacuation for the entire 187 mile coast line and all schools being closed indefinitely was issued. This, is not a good sign and I don't know if I ever seen this big of a move before,  but many projections have it doing a loop right off North Carolina coast at a Category 5 strength and then just going in to really wreck up the rest of NC.

In living in Florida for a stint, I have a general policy that one should get the fuck out of the area and path of a hurricane good and early before it actually hits. The amount of time that it takes for society to get back up and running can vary and given the humidity of the south, why the fuck would you want to stay in a place without power for long periods of times.

You know, the best thing to do if you're in the middle of this thing is to just stop reading this now and focus on news from official sources, get on the many freeways that turned both sides into escape lanes and get the fuck out of there now. Most of my blog is from a perspective from the other side of the country and hell, half of the time it's all about apocalyptic fantasies mixed in with piss poor journalism.  Don't take this as any good place to get a news source view on.

Escape, stay safe.

Even if the only thing you can do are to hide in the bathtub, official sources may only tell you how fucked you are and when it may end. Riding out hurricanes are fucking crazy. Especially if Florence builds up to a Cat 5, and has a direct hit on the Outer Banks. There's a strong possibility that it will literally obliterate the outer banks, and again, for selfish reasons, that fucking sucks ass. I really wanted to see them. Again, selfish as all hell, but I heard that they were amazing. 

But yeah, buy water and have an emergency radio handy. In fact, here's a couple other things that you should be putting on your shopping list right now.
-Bleach
-Ligthers
-Whiskey and Beer
-All the canned goods you could possibly still find.


And I say that knowing full well how picked over the stores are probably getting right now. It's interesting to see how quickly the wheels fall of society if there's any sort of widespread panic. If you wait too long and there's essentially no food to be had and no gas anywhere, you're pretty much fucked and trapped with whatever you already have on hand.

Also crazy how this is effecting a lot. Following a couple of links to stories, I see maps of the whole southeast US and it's odd to see that Louisiana is also getting flooded right now, but just from a regular random storm.  I guess Louisiana is just straight up going away little by little. If you ever wanted to see it, perhaps you should do so in the next few years or you'll just flat out won't have any chance to see the big easy.

In saying all that. Stay safe, folks. I would have written something about 9/11, but jesus, are we still talking about that shit? See, only one sentence in and I already totally got disrespectful. There's no telling how insulting and in poor taste if I devoted a whole blog post about this patriotic moment of a pity party. Just know it sucked, the lives lost not just on that day but every day since we justified the shit our nation does towards other countries and our own people because of that day is just sickening and sad.   #Neverforget