The hurricane season is here, again!
The 2005 Hurricane season has just begun.
Here in South Florida we had a quite busy 2004 season, with 3 major hurricanes landing barely 100 miles from us, namely Charley, Frances and Jeanne; and some others that just skimmed our coasts.
It's again that time of the year when we start worrying about batteries and flashlights, canned food, and the amount of gallons of water that we need to keep stored. It's the time when we also check our windows shutters from having all their screws and bolts and when we have to fight bitterly at the Home Depot for getting enough plywood planks.
South Florida's people empirically predicts how active the next season will be by the amount of rain that falls on May. Last year's month of May was quite dry, with very few showers, and we all know what happened later. Unfortunately this year's May has also been very dry, with only one or two showers up to now, and the same empiric meteorologists are predicting another hectic hurricane season.
In that way, Miami-Dade county decided to exempt its residents to pay sales taxes on certain hurricane supplies from Jun 1st to Jun 12th, including batteries, power generators, coolers and some others. Anyway, I'll make use of this tax exemption for buying my supplies.
By the way, here comes the first storm of this season: Adrian
Good luck fellow Floridians
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Here in South Florida we had a quite busy 2004 season, with 3 major hurricanes landing barely 100 miles from us, namely Charley, Frances and Jeanne; and some others that just skimmed our coasts.
It's again that time of the year when we start worrying about batteries and flashlights, canned food, and the amount of gallons of water that we need to keep stored. It's the time when we also check our windows shutters from having all their screws and bolts and when we have to fight bitterly at the Home Depot for getting enough plywood planks.
South Florida's people empirically predicts how active the next season will be by the amount of rain that falls on May. Last year's month of May was quite dry, with very few showers, and we all know what happened later. Unfortunately this year's May has also been very dry, with only one or two showers up to now, and the same empiric meteorologists are predicting another hectic hurricane season.
In that way, Miami-Dade county decided to exempt its residents to pay sales taxes on certain hurricane supplies from Jun 1st to Jun 12th, including batteries, power generators, coolers and some others. Anyway, I'll make use of this tax exemption for buying my supplies.
By the way, here comes the first storm of this season: Adrian
Good luck fellow Floridians
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