Hurricane Sandy

It doesn't look like much in terms of wind speeds, but I remember Ike just 4 years ago.

I've been through a couple hurricanes that went through the Houston area.  It seemed like Ike in 2004 was worse than Alicia was in 1983.  It seemed, for me at least, that Houston was pretty much back to normal the same day it went through.  Ike was felt for weeks throughout the city.  Alicia was much more localized with the damages.  The point is that Alicia had higher sustained winds than Ike, yet Ike was far more troublesome.

This is coming on the week before a Presidential election.  One gets all kinds of thoughts running through your head at a time like this.  For instance, will the election be postponed?  If it is, is it because Obama feels like he's losing, and this could save him?  So on, and so forth.

This may seem petty, but the Democrats have used hurricanes for political effect before.  This could be no exception.  I suspect that no matter what happens with this storm, it will be spun to their benefit.  So, it isn't the storm, but those who are using it for politics.   It will get used, just like Katrina and others.  Everything gets politicized in this country these days.  In the old days, it would just be a storm.  Now, it is a political event.

It is, after all, the weather.  Something that we all lived with and that was just nature.  It's what people used to talk about in order to be polite.  Now you can't even do that without being political.  It is also political for me to mention this, but it is what it is--- you can't escape it.   It wasn't the Republicans nor the conservatives who made weather into a political thing.