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It's the quickest way to find out what's trending today. Welcome back to Tweed Trends, everyone. I'm sitting outside on my porch here in one of these mid-Atlantic states, not really expecting a whole lot from the hurricane. However, we were initially going to be hit.
But now the track is on a little south. So I decided that today's episode title should be, Hurricanes. Let's get started. Initially, Hurricane Florence was projected to come in our direction.
It wasn't going to be a direct hit, but we were going to be close enough to experience the high winds and the waters rising, especially in low-lying areas. Because of this, school was canceled on Tuesday until further notice. Well, I had a kindergartener. So trying to let her know and understand why she doesn't have to go to school because she loves going to school.
I had to come up with a solution. So what I did is I went on YouTube and found a couple of videos to help explain what a hurricane is and what it does. So on our way going to, I believe we were going to Walmart. I handed her my phone and said, here, watch these videos.
And it was two that I picked. I put them on Twitter so you can find them there. And it was amazing. After watching her first video, she had all these questions.
She's like, so a hurricane can knock down trees. I'm like, yeah. And it can blow away houses. Well, yeah.
And it can cause water to rise up and then it not go down. Yeah, for a while. Yeah. And her first thought was, can we get scuba gear?
Because her thought was if the water does go up and it doesn't go down, then how are we going to get to go outside and do anything? So if we have scuba gear, we can actually go swimming around and still go places. Clever. I know.
My child is brilliant, right? But I just thought that was really interesting. And for those of you that have young ones out there, even though they may be too young now, keep that in mind that when they get in school, especially if you live on the East Coast between Florida, all the way up to like Virginia, let your kids know what's going on. And you will be amazed at how much they'll want to help and be a part of making sure that everyone is safe.
Like I said, school let out on Tuesday. Like they didn't go at all on Tuesday because there were certain areas around here. They were giving mandatory evacuation notices. My neighborhood being one of them.
We're in zone A. We are in that place where they're saying flooding is likely. It will probably happen. So you should probably leave.
Because of that, when I was looking online, I happened to stumble across an article where this doctor says that here are two reasons why people don't listen to the warnings and don't evacuate. Now he was saying that they don't do it because one, people don't know where to go or what to do if they do evacuate. I can imagine that could be a little tricky, especially like with this storm here, Hurricane Florence, where she started going one direction and then she changed her mind and decided to switch to another direction and completely changed the direction, the area where people were probably running to. Now they need to run a little further.
So they said that was one. And then the other thing they said was that people are optimistic and think, oh, it's not going to hit us. And I kind of chuckled. I'm like, those were the two reasons he chose to say.
Well, I grew up in South Carolina and hurricanes happened often. I grew up with hurricanes. And to think that those were the two reasons he gave, I know my father never evacuated. We always stayed for every single hurricane.
And it wasn't because my dad was being optimistic. It wasn't because he didn't know what to do over to go. It was because he would tell us. He's like, if you want to go, y'all can go, but I'm not going to go.
And of course, I'm not going to leave our dad because I'm going to have him. And then I'd be like, oh my gosh, we do the same with him. Or we should have made him come either way. But the two main reasons I know that my dad didn't leave, one is because after a hurricane, if you do evacuate, a lot of times trees are blocking roads.
And depending how far out you live, that determines how soon someone's going to get to your area to clean it up so that you can get back through the roadways. There's one. Another reason is because people tend to loot houses where they know people have evacuated from. They know exactly where to go.
If it's a two-story house, they go upstairs because that's where you move to all of your valuables that you didn't want to get messed up by any rising waters that possibly came through. And not that we lived in a bad neighborhood, but it was still something that happened. And so I know those were two of my dad's main reasons. And he was decked out.
We had a generator, we had the grill, we had everything, and we followed the rules. You know, we stayed away from windows, we'd be in the hallways, and stuff like that. But yeah. So if you've ever been through hurricanes and you didn't evacuate, I'd like to know what your reasons were.
So hit me up on Twitter. So because we're trying to keep an eye on the storm to make sure it doesn't change directions again, and then we have to hunker down a little bit more. We've been watching a lot of the Weather Channel. And in doing so, I saw this guy give a report last night.
His name is Dave Malkoff. And he said, if you go on Facebook, you can experience Hurricane Florence in 360 degree virtual reality. And I'm like, whoa, what are you serious? So I went ahead to check it out.
And he's right. You can. It's right there on Facebook. You don't have to have anything special to do it.
It's right there. So what he said is basically that they take you inside the flight deck of the Hurricane Hunter WC-130J as the United States Air Force reserves. 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron flies directly into the eye of the storm. So they're the people that are going in there and taking all these measurements and everything and coming back out and telling everybody else, okay, the speeds have, the winds have picked up, the temperature of the waters going up or down or whatever.
They're the ones that give you all that information. And so I just had to show that with you. So this is freaking awesome. You click on it and drag and it'll turn the camera around to whatever it is that you want to see as he walks through and shows you all this stuff.
So yeah, check it out. Thanks for joining me for another episode of Tweet Trends. Do me a favor though. Head on over to Twitter and follow me at hethat.
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Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Get some M&M's with peanuts. Read the Peanuts comics or hang out with little Peanut. Take them someplace.
Do some fun. Whatever you do, just have some fun and join some Peanuts. And I will see you tomorrow. Bye.