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Hurricane Amore
This lovely Hump 🐪 Day belies the beginning of hurricane season. The clement, even balmy weather is the calm before the ⛈️ storm that seems to be looming this weekend…
Humbling ⛈️ Rumbling
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. ~Diane Ackerman
It’s that time of year again when we start hearing a succession of arbitrarily alphabetized names.
Storms form somewhere between Africa and the Americas. They ride the trade winds and build up a tremendous Coriolis spin. Those that remain intact as they approach archipelagos and coastal areas may roll westward into the Caribbean or up the Eastern Seaboard.
Those notable few that hold together across the face of islands and coastlines earn their names.
Some drench the islands. Some flatten trees on the continent. Some are big enough to put a lid on entire regions of North or South America.
Those are the ones we tend to remember.
Here’s me hoping we get through the season without a great deal of loss.
I’m only too happy to get through a season without a memorable named storm like Sandy, Katrina or Alice.
The ladies can stay in the islands and dissolve before they whip up any trouble, thank you just the same.
Stormy ⛈️ Tunes
The Ocean Blue – Hurricane Amore
What I do enjoy is some storm-themed tunes.
It’s interesting how composers can evoke the feeling of natural events with tempo and the interplay of instruments.
Antonio Vivaldi – Storm
After any good storm, you get that quiet sense that the world has been rinsed clean again.
I like songs that capture that vibe, too.
These are some of my favorites in that register. I hope you enjoy them, too.
Men At Work – Down By The Sea (1982)
⛈️ Bending Palms 🌴
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. ~Carl Hiaasen
The visuals are everything and this is what makes my Jess Cooper scenes so fun to write.
You can really picture her staging the drama over her shoulder as she speaks breathlessly into the camera.
It’s also fun to see the rivalry between her and lead anchor, Heather Ross.
It will be even more fun to see Barb Dwyer from Channel 7 try to steal her monopoly on covering the Blue Banshee.
Highly driven newsies fighting over an Emmy is the kind of natural force that develops into a storm in prose.
I’m totally here for it…
That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for 🍓🍓🍓