It's so funny how a hurricane would freak out many people, but you people from that area are quite used to them, so it's just risk management and getting everything together and wait. I was living in Holbox, Mexico, for a while, and I remember a storm one time, many people evacuated the island and one of my besties there, who's from Puerto Rico, was just like "hey, we'll do what we do in PR, let's get some rum and chips and go play cards by candlelight all night until it's over!" It soothed me right away, haha, no big deal for her. Thank God it was minor!
I went on my first trip to the US a couple months ago, to the South too, and I loved it. I was worried that people might be racist or xenophobic or something, and I felt soooo good, everyone was so incredibly nice and genuinely curious about me, my home country, our life in Peru, etc. I can't wait to go back and do some road trips to Georgia and South Carolina in the future, and of course, stop by a Buc-ee's hahaha! It was on our plan last time and we didn't have the time to do it, but it sounds very interesting haha.
Yeah. That's what we do in PR. I miss that. However, in PR most houses are made of concrete, and have concrete roofs. But here in Florida (in the US in general) roofs are made of wood, even in most concrete houses, and they are not necessarily hurricane cat 3 proof. To that, add up the tornados that rip the wood roofs as if they are paper. Not worth the risk. We moved the rum and chips to South Carolina.
I like South Carolina, Love Texas (lived in Austin and I would live there again), and have been to Tennessee and love it too (love Nashville and the drive through the Smokey Mountains). I also like Georgia.
Buc-ee's it is surreal (I didn't get to go in due to walking the dog), it is a monster of a gas station. It is huge and my daughter said that it is like a Walmart store in size inside. But the food wasn't bad for what it was. In fact, it was better than I expected.
It's so funny how a hurricane would freak out many people, but you people from that area are quite used to them, so it's just risk management and getting everything together and wait. I was living in Holbox, Mexico, for a while, and I remember a storm one time, many people evacuated the island and one of my besties there, who's from Puerto Rico, was just like "hey, we'll do what we do in PR, let's get some rum and chips and go play cards by candlelight all night until it's over!" It soothed me right away, haha, no big deal for her. Thank God it was minor!
I went on my first trip to the US a couple months ago, to the South too, and I loved it. I was worried that people might be racist or xenophobic or something, and I felt soooo good, everyone was so incredibly nice and genuinely curious about me, my home country, our life in Peru, etc. I can't wait to go back and do some road trips to Georgia and South Carolina in the future, and of course, stop by a Buc-ee's hahaha! It was on our plan last time and we didn't have the time to do it, but it sounds very interesting haha.
Yeah. That's what we do in PR. I miss that. However, in PR most houses are made of concrete, and have concrete roofs. But here in Florida (in the US in general) roofs are made of wood, even in most concrete houses, and they are not necessarily hurricane cat 3 proof. To that, add up the tornados that rip the wood roofs as if they are paper. Not worth the risk. We moved the rum and chips to South Carolina.
I like South Carolina, Love Texas (lived in Austin and I would live there again), and have been to Tennessee and love it too (love Nashville and the drive through the Smokey Mountains). I also like Georgia.
Buc-ee's it is surreal (I didn't get to go in due to walking the dog), it is a monster of a gas station. It is huge and my daughter said that it is like a Walmart store in size inside. But the food wasn't bad for what it was. In fact, it was better than I expected.