Hukilau 2005 - Details Announced! - Other Events

PJ purple jade Member New Orleans Joined: Feb 19, 2003 Posts: 1450	PJ purple jade Posted posted on Tue, May 17, 2005 11:21 AM Sorry but telling people hurricane season is over by the first week of October is an untruth. I've lived with the threat of hurricanes my entire life, and all the sensationalism from the media ghouls about "Will this year be THE BIG ONE?". But I also know, from a cousin in the Army Corps of Engineers, that the threat IS real. I don't disappear into a storm shelter from June-Nov, life does go on. But last year, no one thought what happened would, and it did. You can't predict hurricanes with 100% accuracy one way or the other, and I am just urging people to be intelligent, maintain proper vigilance day by day in monitoring the situation. Do your own research, instead of relying on someone telling you "it probably won't happen again". Make plans, but keep yourself informed enough to know when it would be smarter to cancel. This is not to say I don't wish the best for Hukilau, I have plans to go myself. And I have a double whammy to consider...a hurricane could go to Florida while I'm there, or it could hit my house while I'm there. Or depending on the size of the storm, BOTH! I want to have a good time, too, but there are the realities of life that sometimes get in the way. As they say in the likker ads, "Party Responsibly".

Sorry but telling people hurricane season is over by the first week of October is an untruth.

I've lived with the threat of hurricanes my entire life, and all the sensationalism from the media ghouls about "Will this year be THE BIG ONE?". But I also know, from a cousin in the Army Corps of Engineers, that the threat IS real. I don't disappear into a storm shelter from June-Nov, life does go on. But last year, no one thought what happened would, and it did. You can't predict hurricanes with 100% accuracy one way or the other, and I am just urging people to be intelligent, maintain proper vigilance day by day in monitoring the situation. Do your own research, instead of relying on someone telling you "it probably won't happen again". Make plans, but keep yourself informed enough to know when it would be smarter to cancel.

This is not to say I don't wish the best for Hukilau, I have plans to go myself. And I have a double whammy to consider...a hurricane could go to Florida while I'm there, or it could hit my house while I'm there. Or depending on the size of the storm, BOTH! I want to have a good time, too, but there are the realities of life that sometimes get in the way.

As they say in the likker ads, "Party Responsibly".

Post #159613 by purple jade on Tue, May 17, 2005 11:21 AM