Saturday, September 13, 2008

10 Reasons Why Hurricane Season Is Like Christmas

Number Ten:
Decorating the house (with plywood).

Number Nine:
Dragging out boxes that haven't been used since last season.

Number Eight:
Last minute shopping in crowded stores.


Number Seven:
Regular TV shows pre-empted for 'Specials'.

Number Six:
Family coming to stay with you.

Number Five:
Family and friends from out of state calling you.

Number Four:
Buying food you don't normally buy . . . and in large quantities.

Number Three:
Days off from work.

Number Two:
Candles

And the Number One
Reason Hurricane Season is like Christmas:

At some point you’re probably going to have a tree in your house!

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Son BJ, who is in Austin, says that his Houston house-mate told him that there is a tree on the roof of their rented house, a tree blocking their driveway, and part of the backyard fence is down. Their house is in northeast Houston.

7 comments:

Nancy said...

Glad to hear that all of you are doing okay!

ROBERTA said...

THAT was very clever!

Billie Greenwood said...

Hilarious! You need to work for Letterman.

Lori said...

*hee hee*

Glad you are all OK!!

Ruth Hull Chatlien said...

This is very funny. Glad you're able to laugh about it.

zorra said...

(laughing in spite of it all)

At least Santa has his reindeer and doesn't need to hunt for gasoline!

emmapeelDallas said...

I agree, that's HILARIOUS! But I'm sorry about the trees in your son's place.