Epilogue
9/19/03
My trailer continues to exist. I spent a good 7 hours alone in the death trap I call my home during the hurricane. Pine cones and little twigs kept slamming down on the roof. It made me antsy. I barely had any whiskey left. If I was drunk I wouldn’t have minded the fact that there was a good chance a gust of hurricane forced wind would knock down a tree and crush me to death in my mobile home. Instead I paced around the house and watched the news.
The news kept showing images of downed trees and power lines and trailers with the roof blown off. They showed all the people going into a high school gymnasium which served as the Red Cross shelter. They interviewed one man who said, “I come here cos I live in a mobile home. Better be safe den sorry.”
The good thing was that my park is kind of in the middle of the woods. Why is that good? Because the brunt of the wind is weakened by the surrounding trees. The trees protect the trailer. I stood on my rusty, rickety old metallic steps that bounce when one walks up and down them and looked up at the clouds going by, but it was barely windy, even in the gusts, because the trees produced friction enough to weaken it.
I like the news guys the put out on the beach during the hurricane. There was one guy from Fox News, ha ha, who purposely found a wind tunnel between two buildings in Virginia Beach to make it look like the hurricane was stronger than it really was. It was freaking hilarious. He looked like he was on a tight rope and could barely balance himself. He said a bunch of dumb stuff. Thank god for Fox. I’m surprised Geraldo wasn’t down there.
That’s a funny joke the television news media pulls with those people during hurricanes. I don’t think it’s supposed to be anything other than funny. Because it’s not really news that there’s a hurricane. We all know that. But it’s nice to have something to laugh at.
A lot of people lost power – but not us! We lost it for nine days during the ice storm. In fact, not one tree went down around our trailer park. God loves us.
It is a nice day today. I think I’ll get drunk.