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(sung to the tune of “Kokomo” by The Beach Boys and with full apologies)

Aruba, jamaica ooo they wanna rake ya
Bermuda, bahamas left us in pajamas
Key largo, montego maybe I will forego
Jamaica

Off the Florida Keys
There’s another hurricane
That’s why we wanna go and get away from it all

Bodies in the sand
Tropical debris slicing up your hand
We’ll be falling in streets
Dodging bullets from all the looting bands
As sand banks overflow

Aruba, jamaica ooo they wanna rake ya
Bermuda, bahamas left us in pajamas
Key largo, montego maybe I will forego

Ooo each archipelago
Storm’ll get there fast
Then it’ll take it slow
That’s why we wanna go
Away from overflow

Season’s at peak, the third to hit this week

We’ll block out the sea
And board up all openings completely
By and for we’ll restore a little electricity

Afternoons like night
Cancelled last minute flights
That worried look in your eye
Can’t help thinking that we’re going to die
From ocean overflow

Aruba, jamaica ooo they wanna rake ya
Bermuda, bahamas left us in pajamas
Key largo, montego maybe I will forego

Ooo each archipelago
Storm’ll get there fast
Then it’ll take it slow
That’s why we wanna go
Away from overflow

Not convinced, when it hasn’t been here since

Anybody knows
A little hut like a bungalow
When the winds start to blow
It won’t survive this at all
Get out of kokomo

Aruba, jamaica ooo they wanna rake ya
Bermuda, bahamas left us in pajamas
Key largo, montego maybe I will forego

Ooo each archipelago
Storm’ll get there fast
Then it’ll take it slow
That’s why we wanna go
Away from overflow

Aruba, jamaica ooo they wanna rake ya
Bermuda, bahamas left us in pajamas
Key largo, montego maybe I will forego

Ooo each archipelago (repeats)

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Okay, enough with the sensationalism.

With a third hurricane bearing down on the already-drenched and damaged Florida, weather “experts” are suddenly speculating that this a turn for the worse, that years of nice sunny weather were overdo to be replaced and that the Sunshine State is now doomed to become a “hurricane magnet” for the next 24-30 years (depending on where you read it). Check out this article here, for example.

So, where were all these doom and gloom soothsayers before this hurricane season? Sounds like a few too many people watched The Day After Tomorrow, methinks.

After stalling for a day in the Caribbean, Hurricane Frances made landfall in Florida last night. In Jacksonville, Florida, too many days of boredom waiting for Frances to make up her mind has driven droves of people to the beaches to see what’s happening. For those 50,000 not in shelters, almost 75,000 in Duval County. At one time, 5 million Floridians were in the dark.

But hey… we’re still here!

Looks like Charley wasn’t alone, and we’re only halfway through this hurricane season. While Jacksonville no longer appears to be in the crosshairs, after Charley’s surprise turn for the worse, no one’s taking any chances. With landfall predicted sometime noon Saturday south of Melbourne, Florida, D-cell batteries, bread, plywood, and bottled water are already becoming scarce, not to mention gasoline and cash from ATMs.

Looks like all of Florida got the wake up call, but Orlando’s paying the price.