Today for me is Sunday, July 26, 2020. All week it was announced that a hurricane named Gonzalo would visit us. Actually, I did not panic because on previous occasions, when terrible threats from nature were announced, they never came.
The situation arose like this. The hurricane was approaching the coasts of the Caribbean and then entering our coasts it would destroy part of what it would find in its path. ..I have the precious luck of living very close to the beach. The breeze in the afternoons and nights reminds us how close we have it. Right behind some mountains, you can see the Caribbean coast.
Alert messages were sent to buy candles in the event of power outages. Messages to have safe drinking water, in case of major accidents and many more messages.
Messages to buy candles? What more candles are we going to buy? if the candles are part of our usual purchases !!. What water are we going to reserve? ... if there is no water in the pipes more often. Up to 5 days without water in the pipes. Crazy messages! ... to make people more crazy than we already are.
The hurricane did not come. Apparently it became a tropical storm when it collided with our islands, in front of the Caribbean Sea. Thank God!!. And for storms, call Venezuela, whose winter became a receptacle for frequent tropical storms a few years ago.
God knows what he does!. We are helpless in the face of this pandemic. Helpless in the face of the economic situation of our country. Defenseless against the forces of nature.
For those of us who are believers, we can only put ourselves in God's hands.
It is a very good thing he didn't come! Natural disasters are hard to prepare for. My country gets flooded during the monsoon season, usually end of the year. The only things that they can prepare for, is establishing a good monitoring and warning system, prepare enough shelters and food for the people. But how hard a disaster hits, we can never foretell.