Sledgstone

When its hurricane season we'll always get a tropical storm or depression. They have winds of 20-60mph. The rain would eventually erode your rock formation apart if left unattended between occurrences. Last year we had a pretty good thunderstorm system roll through and it damaged a ton of gas station signs around the city. I'm not sure what people did in the 80s when a hurricane hit TBH. I'd imagine they'd took down all their window units and brought them inside. Interestingly enough you're suppose to leave a few windows cracked open during a hurricane the intense barometric pressure will make buildings swell and contract like a breathing lung. It will shatter windows which is why you see people tape and barricade theirs. its for more than just debris hazards. I remember a few years ago when that hurricane almost made it up the NE coast, it was a big panic on the news because houses up there aren't build to code for hurricanes and the damage would be way worse. Those screws would be fine, but the wood would break apart around it.

Its pretty amazing that we'll all go to work during a depression or storm, but let an inch of snow fall and the city shuts down. We have no snow plows, no salt trucks, or anything to cope with snow and ice. Its a super rare occurrence. Our drainage systems would easily take care of the melt water though since they're built to withstand several inches of water hourly because of hurricanes and just the generally rainfall we get.

When I lived in Virginia I remember the gnat clouds that would be in random places outside. We don't have many of those here, but everything else you mentioned we have that on top of everything else. its bugpocalyse most the year. multiple types of ants, hornets, wasps, bees, spiders, crickets, grasshoppers, earwigs, moths, stinkbugs, ticks, dragonflies, mosquitoes, beetles, etc. Daddy long legs are around but they're def not the most prevalent. I'd say orb weavers and the most prevalent in the yards, and outside the house, while wolf spiders are always finding ways to get in. The yellow jackets are what you have to worry about since they like to nest in the ground, if you step on it, its over with. They're super aggressive. Unlike most bees, they don't lose their stinger and will keep stinging you. In fact I believe once they sting you, you're marked so they can keep tracking you down. They're assholes.

That's some intense winds. 😲 and yes fuck yellow jackets. I forgot to mention them, Hornets and bees. 😖 It was either yellow jackets or ground bees stung the hell out of me and got one of my dogs with a sting to about 3 years ago I think. I sprayed the hell out of the couple holes I saw them coming out of and thought that was the end of it.. nope, 2 days later they were swarming around. We had skunks in the yard a couple nights in a row, turns out they were hunting bees. A big pile of dirt almost 2 feet deep was dug up in a flower bed and what was left of a hive was exposed. I sprayed all those damn things and a couple days later I flushed them with the garden hose and left it running in the hole for hours just to be safe.

At my house now I've been seeing bumble bees and wasps having death battles. Wtf. I need to buy more wasp spray.

I got buzzed on my way home from work from the emergency broadcasting system for a severe thunderstorm warning with 70mph winds and golfball sized hail. vehicle damage expected. Thankfully it was in Mississippi where the radio station is based. We got some super heavy rain though before that, I guess the system intensified when it went over us. That gulf water really supercharges storms if they feed off of it.  I should have snapchatted it today.