Watching and waiting

How is it possible that it's nearly Halloween and we are having to worry about a hurricane barrelling through Florida?

It's bad enough that I had to sacrifice the wonderful changing of the seasons, with the leaf color changing and cooler autumn weather, when I moved here.

But now we've got to plan for a tropical storm when all I can think about (outside of work) are Halloween costumes and a trip to the local pumpkin patch.

And even worse, we've had to deal with tired Flintstone jokes all week.
(If one more person calls out that trademark Fred Flintstone shout.....)

We had a recent letter to the editor, suggesting that we stop with these insipid storm names and use names of mythological gods.

I tend to agree. Hurricane Zeus certainly has a nice ring to it.