Hurricane Philosophy
"Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine." William Feather (American author and publisher) When TS Fay was just a bleep on the meteorologist's radar, I restocked our hurricane locker and collected extra drinking water. In the last 24 hours, I've removed possible flying projectiles from the yard and packed the garage to within an inch of it's recommended capacity. I have checked off every item from the suggested "be prepared" list in the newpaper. Every item, that is, except matches. What? No matches? My inner Girl Scout is screaming in lack of preparedness horror. But the truth of the matter is I have plenty of matches, I just don't have the box to strike the matches on; which basically renders the matches useless. Even though I feel like the butane lighters I do have will suffice, I went out one more time to stock up on supplies. Seems we were also running low on toilet paper...