October 6, 2016, Prescott
Far from here,
mothers slog through the water-logged
streets of Les Cayes and Petit-Goave,
carrying their babies,
to shacks on higher ground.
Their own shanties are now home
to snakes and vermin,
which can better thrive
in a watery place.
An American expatriate,
yesterday lay on the beach
at West End, Grand Bahama.
Today, he sits on his cot,
in a Bahamian Red Cross shelter,
wondering about his faithful dog.
A Cuban woman, dazedly wandering
the streets of Baracoa,
remembers the day
when Pope Francis blessed her.
“What is he thinking”, she wonders,
“about the most powerful storm
to hit Cuba, in decades?”
In Fort Lauderdale,
the image of the Governor
appears on a TV screen.
“Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate”,
he says, as the storm of the century,
plods on- over Lake Wales and Apopka.
In Virginia’s Tidewater,
a young mother gathers her family’s
necessities, for the third time this year.
Matthew has brought water, debris and mud,
change agent that he is.
A Sagittarian Seeker 
what indeed would damp air be thinking? obviously we live in a newer world where it is not a cyclical rebuilding in tune with nature and unfortunately this type of thing being likely eventually, it is catastrophy@ however, hope is an agent force in nature and i’m more interested in what hope thins than damp dangerous air. 😉
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Hope that leads to positive action has a calming effect on damp air.
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Did anyone’s intuition start vibrating with the urge to move to safer ground? Or could one only surrender to the storm?
This I know; they have a good man praying for them.
Peace to thee…
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People by the thousands fled to higher ground. This was a problem only to the Bahamians, who have none.
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This Mathew storm was the dangerous one, Category 4. I hope no one from you family were affected.
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No one in my family lives in the affected states or countries.
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It was a nasty storm — interesting to watch from a distance, though!
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I see that a similar storm hit the Northwest coast, with residual rain going as far south as Santa Maria. Maybe southern California will get some of the drizzle.
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