Dave Barry

I read something in a newspaper that I wanted to share with ya'll. Some of you may have already seen it. Dave Barry did a month by month overview of 2005. It took up several pages of the San Antonio Express-News, so obviously I won't repeat the whole column. Just the parts that I found amusing.
JULY: In weather news, the formatin of Hurrican Dennis is followed closely by the formation of Hurricane Emily, arousing suspricions amoung some staffers at headquarters of FEMA that hurricane season might be going on. It is agreed that somebody probably should look into this and write a report no later than Halloween. AUGUST: By far the biggest story in August is Hurricane Katrina, a massive, deadly storm that thrashes Florida, then devastates New Orleans. For several days, chaos reigns, with most of the relief effort taking the form of Geraldo Rivera, who, by his own estimates, saves more than 170,000 people. FEMA director Michael Brown, after conducting an aerial survey, reports that "the situation is improving" only to be informed that the area he surveyed was actually Phoenix. For her part, Greta Van Susteren personally broadcasts many timely reports from Aruba on how the Katrina devastation will affect the ongoing Natalee Holloway investigation. SEPTEMBER: It is not until now that the full magnitude of the New Orleans devastation sinks in, and local, state and federal officials manage to get their act together and begin the difficult, painstaking work of blaming each other for screwing up. Urged on by President Bush, Congress votes to spend what could wind up being more than $200 billion to repair the Gulf Coast and fix up New Orleans, so that it will be just as good as new when the next devastating hurricane devastates it. NOVEMBER: Michael "Heckuva Job" Brown, who resigned after being harshly criticized for his performance as FEMA director following Katrina, announces that he is starting a consulting business that will...advise clients on preparing for disasters. DECEMBER: The hurricane season, which has produced so many storms that the National Weather Service is now naming them after fraternities, fails to end as scheduled, as yet another hurricane, Epsilon, forms in the Epsilon. As the troubled year draws to a troubling close, yet another hurricane, Kappa Sigma Gamma, forms in the South Atlantic, treating to blast the US mainland with a load of energy that, according to the National Hurricane Center, is the equivalent of 17 trillion six packs of Bud Light.

Dave Barry...got to love him. We should get him to spend some time in Louisiana! Have a good week everyone.