Centauri's Thoughts

Tuesday Afternoon:
Much has happened since Friday nights post. I had no way to make updates without power and Internet access til now.

Hurricane Charley hit the coast as a category 4 and hit the Orlando Area as a Category 2 with 105 MPH sustained and 120 MPH gusts. The eye went right over us here, as we had 5 minutes of dead calm between horrendous winds.
On Saturday morning, I went out and took pictures

It was an experience, and actually, I was expecting it to be possibly much worse (having been through 7.0 earthquakes).
People kind of expect a Garden of Eden, then Mother Nature shows the earth not to be like that, and they freak. Its still calmer than open space, or the open seas.

All this makes us appreciate a hot shower, available food and gas, A/C, and the caring nature of other humans in the same prediciment. It reminds me of possibly why Man survived the Ice Age to begin with. when Life is hard, people pool together, the women guard the cave and watch the kids, then men go out and scavange and protect from the outside, but all in all, together, we survive better as a group, than any survive alone.
Even though, through Hurricane Charley, there were Women foraging (at job) and men at home cooking, cleaning, watchng kids, all necessary functions were covered. Food, water, fire, kids, communication, hope.

We made it, as did millions of others, and we shall again, its in our nature.