Hurricane Preparation

There’s never really an appropriate time to point out when people don’t seem that smart so I’m just going ahead with it.

I was watching the news before Hurricane Ike and they were showing people loading up on water and supplies so they could wait out the storm. My problem is not with people trying to weather the storm (I can understand why that’s a tough decision). My problem is with people stocking up like they don’t know that hurricanes come around between Florida and Texas for a few months in the year, specifically denoted at “Hurricane Season.”

If I knew that something was coming once a year, and thought that having a few cases of water on hand would make it better, I’d have purchased that water a month before “Hurricane Season” and not rushed to the near empty store a few days before the storm to stock up on water and canned goods! It just doesn’t seem that difficult to plan for a recurring weather event. If you don’t need the water by the end of the season, have fun drinking it… it’ll keep.

Hopefully sales of plywood and water will be just a little higher in July next year as a few more people catch on.