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# zfzz grout sponge

From:

South of Jewfish Creek

Dear Friend &
Subscriber,

See the date (above) of this newsletter?

Guess what? That date is a flat-out lie.
That's the date this letter should have been written.
It wasn't. I didn't get this newsletter out in time because I
have a new "hobby" that occupies an enormous amount of my
time. My new hobby really sucks. You know what it is?

My New Hobby Is Moving!

Remember Hurricane Irene? You probably don't
unless you live in South Florida. The truth is, most of us
just flat out don't give a shit about anything that happens
outside our immediate geographical area... unless, of
course... that event somehow affects us personally or
business-wise. Ah, whatever. Anyway, Irene was one of the last
hurricanes of the 1999 season (she popped up in the middle of
October) and wasn't even supposed to hit the Keys at all. Not
only that, nobody much cared because Irene was only a Category
One hurricane which is as low as you can get on the "hurricane
meanness" scale. Category One hurricanes get "minimal" wind
speeds from 74 to 95 miles per hour.

I go to bed not even thinking about Irene.
Well, the forecasters mispredicted (I think I just invented a
new word) the track she was going to take and she made a
bull's-eye directly on the house in which I was living. I
lived in the bottom half of the house and, at the time, my
aunt and uncle lived in the top half.

Category One. No big deal. Except somehow,
everybody forgot it is the water damage from a hurricane which
wreaks the most havoc. Those high wind speeds make the most
dramatic video bites for the TV news casters... but... it is
the amount of water the hurricane dumps on the land which
mostly determines the extent of the damage.