Letter From Irma: A Second Day Of Waiting

Lucky me, the track has shifted, so the actual storm may never hit here. I can’t say enough about my gratitude for this possibility. This is a major hurricane. My aunt who lives in Switzerland saw it on the news and called me. My neighbor’s father is in a panic in France. I’m getting emails from Australia, England, France and Hawaii. There will be houses open to the sky, cars crushed, live power lines sparking on the sidewalk. If you have ever turned down a familiar road only to discover it’s a cul-de-sac with what looks like established shrubbery at the end of it, then had to re-think your double-take to realize that an enormous tree has been uprooted and is blocking your way, you know what I mean. Rush Limbaugh says it’s all hype, but Palm Beach proper is in the evacuation zone, so he went. I can’t see him worrying about his car or flying debris. I assume he has people to do that for him. Most of us don’t. This is real, even if everyone is not hurt.

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