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The Missing Pizza

By Jimmy Johnson


Hurricanes have been a topic here since 2005, when I personally was affected by Katrina and shared a lot of my experience with you. However, there has not been a major hurricane—a category 3 or above—to hit the United States since that eventful year. I suppose that technically is true still. Hurricane Matthew, a category 3 hurricane when it approached southeastern Florida last week, did not make landfall there. As we all know, it skirted the Atlantic seaboard until the eyewall finally touched ground in South Carolina. By then, Matthew was a category 1 storm. Yes, we did get lucky. Had Matthew been a category 5 storm on the path it took, or even a category 4 as it was when it hit poor Haiti, we probably would be dealing with the greatest natural disaster in our nation’s history. Or if the storm, as it was, had tracked 20 or 30 miles closer to shore, the damage would have been far greater. However, I say all that to say this: Matthew was a remarkably unique hurricane. By hugging the coastline, its impact amounted to a landfalling hurricane from near Palm Beach, Florida, to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. While not the rolling catastrophe that might have been, the damage is great, far greater than we know from watching clips on television and the internet. The dollar damage will be historic, and there are personal catastrophes aplenty. This storm was not oversold. We got very, very lucky.
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61 responses to “The Missing Pizza”

  1. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Lizards are OK, snakes aren’t.. my cats would probably eat the lizard. Ludwig needs to eat a lizard for Janis to earn his keep.

    Or at least a lizard tail.

  2. emb Avatar

    Some snakes are ok. Peace,

  3. Tunadavis Avatar
    Tunadavis

    We were fortunate to get my college-aged daughter out of Savannah in time. She had a train ticket on Thursday, but due to some miscommunication she showed up on Wednesday. They let her on, and Thursday the trains had been shut down!

  4. JACKQULINE MONIES Avatar
    JACKQULINE MONIES

    Wonderful she got out. I have damaged coastal friends from Georgia to North Carolina. There are good people still out there that are helping .

  5. JACKQULINE MONIES Avatar
    JACKQULINE MONIES

    My latest challenge for a not very computer tech non-geek is navigation get enough entry schedules and then booking tickets. I am improved, before I could not do it at all. Now I do with mixed results.

    Managed to buy tickets for Kris Kristopherson, Trio Settecento baroque chamber music, High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass, Caberet, an organ recital by Simon Johnson, Dwight Yokum. Seats may be awful in ladies room or behind a post.

    Thought I bought Big Band Broadway, Hair, Modigliano String Quartet but can’t find confirmation.

    Going to take Dickens to Mutt Strut and Rocky Horror Show in park.

    Decided to quit traveling so much and stay home. Knee surgery is on for November 30 so I must lose weight more and get healthier.

    Didn’t want anyone to think I am not as weird in my tastes and interests as I sound.

  6. JACKQULINE MONIES Avatar
    JACKQULINE MONIES

    That was supposed to say navigating through event schedules. Hal is demented, I typed every word correctly.

  7. ursen Avatar
    ursen

    Even though I live north of the hurricane damage in the Appalachians my Salvation Army corps has sent our canteen down to NC to go in with the 3rd wave of relief efforts. Still not sure when if will return to us. I know that for now they need it more there than we do for fire support work. Still praying for the relief efforts from Fl north to Virginia. I have a friend who lives in Virginia who has had no power longer than 24 hrs.

  8. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    The Salvation Army does much good they are not always praised for. They deserve more thanks.

  9. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Good deed for the day – done! Little lizard was still hiding behind the African violet but scurried away when I moved it. It took a while but I managed to catch it and put it outside. From nose to tail end it couldn’t have been more than an inch and a half.

  10. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Mark, I will try the site you mentioned.

    For anyone wanting a place to view US/world newspapers & their websites, try this:

    http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?tfp_display=map&tfp_region=USA&tfp_sort_by=state

    Heck, you can probably just enter newseum.com and work it out from there. Free.

  11. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Ruth Anne, if that was a Cuban anole it must have been a baby. Even the American ones are larger than that as adults.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Anole

  12. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    1. Why Janis wants Arlo to inspect for lizards.
    2. Possibly why Arlo is not that diligent in his inspection.
    3. Why I may consider stocking some lizards at my place when I have female company over.

    http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2011/11/28

  13. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    This essay by Mike Rowe is the most intelligent article I have read on the very pertinent issue so many of us face right now. It is a discussion of our rights as Americans, versus our duties and responsibilities as citizens. I do not consider this a political discussion, rather one of our ethics, principles and morality.

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1674439942867740&id=100009052528502

  14. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Mark: Here’s what we refer to as Cuban anoles – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_anole – they’re much smaller than the one you found. The one I caught had probably just hatched. We still have a few of the native green Carolina anoles but they’re being pushed out.

  15. JC Avatar
    JC

    the hurricane was “remarkably unique” ? sorry, buy unique is like pregnant, it’s either yes or no – there are no degrees of uniqueness

  16. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    GM Debbe
    Have read up to 10/04 — am gaining on it
    Have kept notes so will comment when no one remembers or cares.

    Zen Wisdom with a twist

    11.  If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

  17. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Funny one Old Bear. Some cost more.

  18. Smigz Avatar
    Smigz

    Good to see you back, Old Bear.

  19. emb Avatar

    Jackie: Interesting article, though it fails to mention some serious things we should consider. But the poll at its end is ridiculous. Lots of sensible questions, but all are irrelevant in light of the first one. #1 asks who I think will WIN the election, not which of the four candidates at the end I support or will vote for. Then the usual $$, hobbies, AARP or NRA, my candidate in a prev. election, my religion, etc. What has my expectation or fear re the outcome to do with my politics, wealth, or faith? Q. 1 asks if I’m an optimist or pessimist, not who my preferred candidate is.

    Do the pollsters realize this, or is it deliberate for some agenda, and if so, what? I will give them the benefit of the doubt. Stupidity: they don’t know what to ask.

    Peace,

  20. domaucan1 Avatar
    domaucan1

    Sorry to have been so silent lately. Pawpaw taxi duty and house and dog sitting duty for my crown prince during his house repairs. Crown princess is further behind due to more damage to her house from 5 feet of flood water. Other crown princess is fine and her daughters still come here after school. Baton Rouge and surrounding area still looks like a war zone with peoples lives strewn about. Pickup is slow. We will survive. God bless us every one. God bless the USA.

  21. JACKQULINE MONIES Avatar
    JACKQULINE MONIES

    I never read or answer polls! Had no idea there was one attached to article. I just read what Mike Rowe said and didn’t pay much attention to rest, especially questionaire.

    I do think Mike Rowe is articulate and shows a great deal of common sense on most any subject. I have never seen him on television, since I do not watch. My sole knowledge of him is through his writing which I like and the character and principles he seems to have. He and Freddy seem to be pretty easy on the eyes and the funny bone, as well as having a lot of backbone of their own.

    The analogy of exercising the right to vote and comparing it to responsible gun ownership was superb. I come from a large family of gun owners who as a whole believe in responsibility, if not registration.

  22. JACKQULINE MONIES Avatar
    JACKQULINE MONIES

    Here we are worried about Carolinas and Louisiana still a mess. So sorry, your losses are dreadful and extensive.

    At least most in Louisiana have flood insurance to help a little.

  23. JACKQULINE MONIES Avatar
    JACKQULINE MONIES

    Cute cat story, Lil Ghost is the most beautiful kitten now that he has filled out and no longer skinny and sick. He has the softest jet black short fur with white feet and some white on face. His ears are small and proportioned, his tail short and rounded, compact body. Ok, when I lived in Hawaii I belonged to Cat Fancy and helped with shows! Confession time. Only there, never again.

  24. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Jackie, here’s Mike’s own bio from his website: http://mikerowe.com/about-mike/bio/

    And I had it wrong, he was in opera, not ballet.

  25. emb Avatar

    In a favorite Savoy Opera, ‘Patience’, there are two poets: Reginald Bunthorne, a fleshly poet, and Archibald Grosvenor [pron. grove-nuhr], an idyllic poet, and a flock of local girls [all of ‘county family], all of them initially taken in by Bunthorne’s pretensions, but later fascinated by the virtuous Grosvenor.

    In Act II, surrounded by these admirers, Archibald recites two shallow but virtuous poems illustrating the rewards of good behavior in a fictitious ‘Jane’ and the doom that descends on ‘Teasing Tom’. The latter ends, ‘. . . The consequence he was lost totally [pron. toe-TALLY, short a], And married a girl in the corps de bally!’

    Oh, the shame!

    Peace,