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Howard told his wife he'd be gone a couple of hours playing poker and drinking beer with the boys, but he got caught in in one of the hurricane's outer bands, so his route home included the Carolinas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, so yes, he was a little late . . .
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With possible storm-caused flooding conditions, the Governor had declared mandatory evacuation, but he hadn't offered a good idea as to where 5,000,000 evacuated people should stay . . .
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As the forest fire raged, the park rangers were pretty sure someone had not obeyed the no smoking signs . . .
“Yikes!”
The president said the California wildfires were caused by California’s poor forestry practices and permitting medical marijuana to be grown on federal forest land. California said it was Washington’s failure to provide proper forest service funding. In the mean time, Montana was living with smoky sunsets and sunrises because of the California wild fires. Iowa and Rhode Island claimed they had no dog in this fight . . .
Missed the Big One
As November came and the end of Hurricane season was in sight, coastal Texans all breathed a sigh of relief for another year . . .
Flood Insurance
As the tropical depression turned into a tropical storm and perhaps later a hurricane, LaVerne (pictured) was trying to remember if she had paid her flood insurance premium. After the trouble she had collecting last year, she wasn’t sure she cared; it took a law suit filed in Judge Judy’s court to finally get the company to pay . . .