Luxury apartments and hurricane season
Life only gets better. I've been telling myself this for many years. I have arrived. We didn't have time to find and buy a house before our house sold, so we quickly picked an apartment complex to stay at. This is a nice place! The usual applies in that it is close to shopping and has a pool. Yet it still feels secluded, complete with it's own lake. It takes about 3 minutes to drive to Walmart and we pass 4 small lakes along the way. I love Palm Bay!
This place is amazing. It has a club house with a stocked fridge of soda and juice. It has a pool room. It has weird and crazy art all over. It has a nice exercise room. It has a nice business center. It has a very nice top of the line massage chair room available 24 hours a day. It has a tiny playground for little kids. It has an even bigger dog playground. The pool is fabulous. It has it's own car wash for tenants! The volleyball court is like a big sand box for the little one to play in as I watch the fountain in the lake. The other night 3 large birds were camping out there for the night. No wonder, the lady tells me they are called sand cranes. The really amazing thing is that they have valet garbage. You put your garbage outside your door by 8pm and someone comes and collects it. So fancy.
So today is June 2nd and that means it's day 2 of the 2021 hurricane season. They call it a season, but it's actually half a year. Every year. I'm not afraid. I think I will like the wild energy of a good storm. Easy to say before my first big storm, right? I haven't been through much. 2013 to 2021 in the mountains of Utah there was only one snow storm that cancelled school for the day. There was one other notable snow storm that hit on Mother's Day, and it busted up a lot of trees with all their new leaves holding too much snow. I had worked a late shift and the windows were closed after dark. I walked out at midnight with open toed shoes to a blinding snowfall. I was shocked. I don't think I even had a jacket, just a sweater. Brush off some of the white stuff off the front of the car and crawl home at 10 miles per hour. Not a big deal. I was able to warm back up and it wasn't a long drive.
I am very very interested in how things will go here. I am still doing research on how it all works. They say to have a good app and a source of real information beyond the sensational drama of the evening news. I also read that last year was a record breaker, the most active season and the costliest Atlantic season on record. It was also the fifth consecutive above average season from 2016 onward. It had a record high of 30 named storms. 7 of them were category 3 or higher.
The good news is that we are not buying a wood framed house. Why do they even make those here? I don't know, we picked this area for it's lack of hurricane hits. The man inspecting our home says he has paid the hurricane insurance on his wood frame house for 10 years and hasn't used it yet.
A new friend of ours says they have hurricane parties. If the power may go out, everyone may as well get together and eat all the ice cream from their freezers. Sounds fun. I know I am naive. Our church assigns old timers to new members, they check in with them before and after every storm. That makes me feel better too. There was a disaster preparedness meeting last Sunday. The people who have been here a while say it's just a lot of wind and rain, and they never leave for hurricanes. We have been here for a month and it has been sunny. The most rain was yesterday. Cloudy all morning. An afternoon rain for about half an hour, then the sun came out again. I've seen 2 rainbows, which is very cool. I will see if the pictures turned out.
So this place is bursting with magic! The list of amazing things grows every week. I will tell you one thing on the list. I made a new completely fabulous friend and we went for a walk over one of the bridges over the Indian river. When we reached the other side there was a dolphin near the bank, and we watched it play for a little bit. Then we walked back. We didn't see any manatees, but they can be seen from a dock in a park that is a 10 minute drive from where we live.
Ok, one more cool thing is that we are close to Cape Canaveral. We have seen 2 rocket launches from the beach, and there is another one tomorrow. They are launching the Space X Falcon. It's kind of funny, there is a Space Coast transit system and a Space Coast Credit Union and a credit union called Launch. There is a Facebook page called Florida Space Coast, and the list goes on for businesses here.
We are jumping through the hoops to buy a house, and we will be moving hopefully in the next few weeks. Wish me luck! I will need all the magic I can muster with a move during a season of storms. At least it is a place that doesn’t have earthquakes.
These are the sand cranes. This picture does not show how they are super tall like flamingos. I had no idea that the elegant birds would also appear basically in my back yard. How cool!
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