{"id":32743,"date":"2018-10-10T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32743"},"modified":"2018-10-10T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:00:01","slug":"feeling-oddly-guilty-as-michael-thrashes-florida-panhandle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32743","title":{"rendered":"Feeling oddly &#8216;guilty&#8217; as Michael thrashes Florida Panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/thYT05PXJ4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32744\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/thYT05PXJ4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Call it a form of &#8220;survivor&#8217;s guilt,&#8221; if you wish.<\/p>\n<p>I am feeling oddly out of place today as I watch the news out of Florida, Alabama, Georgia and possibly the Carolinas. Our fellow Americans are enduring Hurricane Michael&#8217;s unprecedented wrath.<\/p>\n<p>Here? In North Texas? Oh, my. Our weather is postcard-perfect: 70 degrees, bright sunshine, a light breeze. Fall has arrived in the Metroplex.<\/p>\n<p>Not so for our friends and fellow citizens way down yonder, southeast of us!<\/p>\n<p>The Carolinas are still recovering from the havoc that Hurricane Florence brought ashore. Now it&#8217;s Hurricane Michael&#8217;s turn to become flood Americans with indelible memories of just how savage Mother Nature&#8217;s wrath can become.<\/p>\n<p>It blasted ashore after being spotted only a few days ago. Hurricane preparedness officials had little time to plan how to cope with it. To its credit, federal, state and local authorities mustered their first responders who &#8212; as is their custom &#8212; reacted heroically in the face of the storm&#8217;s savagery.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, those of us far away are basking in sunshine. We&#8217;re also sending all the good karma and prayers we can to those who at this moment are fighting for their lives against forces far beyond mere humans&#8217; meager limits.<\/p>\n<p>If all of that assuages my feelings of guilt, well, it doesn&#8217;t matter. I just want this storm to do what it will do \u2026 and then vanish.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it a form of &#8220;survivor&#8217;s guilt,&#8221; if you wish. I am feeling oddly out of place today as I watch the news out of Florida, Alabama, Georgia and possibly the Carolinas. Our fellow Americans are enduring Hurricane Michael&#8217;s unprecedented wrath. Here? In North Texas? Oh, my. Our weather is postcard-perfect: 70 degrees, bright sunshine, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feeling oddly &#8216;guilty&#8217; as Michael thrashes Florida Panhandle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1716,8006,8033,7457,7040],"class_list":["post-32743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-fema","tag-hurricane-florence","tag-hurricane-michael","tag-hurricanes","tag-mother-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32745,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32743\/revisions\/32745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}