The air pressure differential doesn't compare with the reality that is more like hydraulic mining or water jet cutters ....the moving air is carrying
a load of liquid and solids which changes the kinetic energy considerably ....like a whole order of magnitude increase.
What would be just "wind" becomes a scythe in the hands of the grim reaper. It is like being the earthworm on the ground when the lawn mower passes
overhead, but decides to just stop there and run for awhile that begins to seem like forever. It is a "religious" experience that creates an eagerness
for prayer in all sinners,
and leaves sphincter cramped fannies trying for a week to relax for a return to regularity.  On the anxiety scale of 1 to 10 it is an 11.
My properties are pretty banged up and damaged but still livable, with repairs continuing for months and incrementally delayed with delivery delays
caused by suppliers sold out / out of stock and other "supply system overload" everywhere in the impact area. For immediate most essential repairs I
was hauling materials that could be gotten only in distant unimpacted areas before shortages hit there also, which didn't take very long. Electrical
supplies got sold out in a few days. A hurricane overwhelms all the materials and services vendors and months or even years delays are the new normal
for what were before routine ordinary things.
Trying to get replacement windows can take six months because the factory is backlogged with more orders than can be filled same story everywhere
about every common item. Everything that was taken for granted as a common item can become scarce when the usual supply and demand balance no longer
applies in a disaster area.
It is an interesting experience to see what a great "equalizer" a disaster can be when nobody escapes the "shock and awe" that is 100% a full
attention getter provided by an overwhelming force of nature that is humbling to endure, and leaves survivors counting their blessings really just to
still be alive, and appreciating that as a miracle which it just could be. There really is no way to describe in words what the eye wall of a cat 5
is like ....it is just surreal and jawdropping what the intensity of energy is like there and it isn't just a lot of moving air.....it is
multidimensional ...for lack of a better term. For one thing, a person can easily see through what is just a lot of moving air...like looking out of
an airplane window.
But there is zero visibility in the eye wall of a cat 5 and you can't see 2 feet through it ...it is like being in a car wash times ten, and being
hammered with stuff that looks like ground up mulch coming out the discharge chute of one of those limb chipper shredders. The air is like a
semi-liquid semi-solid paste that the atmosphere has become, that is so thick it would choke a person to try to breathe....and so abrasive it will
sandblast paint from metal. It literally will tear bark from snapped trees and will tear skin and flesh even more easily. Exposed in the open it would
cut a living animal or person to pieces.
I never thought I would have or need to own 5 chain saws of different sizes .....but now I do. And I have been wanting a #6 that has "more power" for
Santa Claus to bring me.
One glorious fringe benefit is that it seems women have generally become a lot more friendly, I suppose to encourage men to play their natural roles
as protector / provider / hero / ect. and to keep up their morale .....which curiously is a very arousing change of disposition by the females, which
I have been enjoying immensely. There is bound to be a spike in the birth rates that should correlate to the time of a disaster that will be similar
to the uptick in births associated with blizzards and that sort of thing that results in "what are we going to do now" ....I know, let's be busy bees
Isn't love wonderful ? God bless those caring women for doing their part and
doing what comes naturally. See, nature is not all bad.
[Edited on 9/10/2019 by Rosco Bodine] |
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