{"id":161,"date":"2011-08-26T19:33:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T23:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=161"},"modified":"2011-08-26T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T23:55:39","slug":"wait-are-those-locusts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Wait, Are Those Locusts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now we&#8217;re getting a hurricane.\u00a0 We aren&#8217;t supposed to get earthquakes or hurricanes\u00a0 in this part of the country.\u00a0 Now, I realize that those of you in who live in hurricane-prone or earthquake-prone locations may poo-poo the severity of our little disasters (although I defy to to listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/08\/24\/139901552\/town-at-quakes-epicenter-rocks\">this story<\/a> and not shudder in fear at the part about &#8216;there were Hot Wheels everywhere&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blahbethany.com\/2011\/08\/23\/virginia-earthquake-2011-we-will-rebuild-never-forget\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-162\" title=\"2011-va-earthquake-we-will-rebuild-east-coast-damage\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2011-va-earthquake-we-will-rebuild-east-coast-damage-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2011-va-earthquake-we-will-rebuild-east-coast-damage-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2011-va-earthquake-we-will-rebuild-east-coast-damage.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but when was the last time any of you folks in California or the Gulf Coast had both in one week, hmmm?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the deal I make living here is that I live through six months with the constant threat of Nor&#8217;easters, blizzards, and lake effect events with snowfall measured in feet, and in exchange I don&#8217;t deal with earthquakes, hurricanes, or wildfires.\u00a0 Unlike some people around here, I don&#8217;t even complain about massive snowfalls and howling blizzards.\u00a0 I even enjoy driving in blizzards and ice storms.\u00a0 I assume that folks living in the Gulf Coast enjoy the excitement of watching the occasional splinter driven through tree trunks by high-speed winds but I don&#8217;t, thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now we&#8217;re getting a hurricane.\u00a0 We aren&#8217;t supposed to get earthquakes or hurricanes\u00a0 in this part of the country.\u00a0 Now, I realize that those of you in who live in hurricane-prone or earthquake-prone locations may poo-poo the severity of our little disasters (although I defy to to listen to this story and not shudder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}