PSA: The World is not Disneyland, Part Four Thousand Forty-Two

[rolanni]

OK, who here does not know better than to go swimming in the ocean when there's been a Big Storm within the last couple days? Show of hands, here, people.

Right. The ocean is not your friend. The weather is not your friend. I speak here as one who is very much attracted to both the ocean and to dangerous weather. I understand the allure. But for cryin' out loud, don't dice with either for your life. Unless you're very, very lucky, you will lose.

Comments

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but just think what the Imagineers at Disney could do to bring the descriptions in the story to life:

"It just kept coming higher and higher, and as the waves crashed on the rocks, the ground actually shuttered," said Carole Thompson, a summer resident.

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

[A tip of the hat to the old folktale (from the Grimms or whoever) "The Boy Who Learned to Shudder and Shake", from which, together with the fact that we spent our summers in a little white Adirondack house with green shutters, I learned some useful vocabulary]

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Obviously, the reporter did not have your advantages *g*