As The Wind Blows-1

* *All Events, places, and people are fictional and a product of this authors imagination.* *


AS THE WIND BLOWS
Copyright © Feb. 2006 by Kathy Priebe


"Hey Fred! Come take a look at this." Steven Bilow, one of the two full time meteorologist began punching in numbers on the keypad of his computer.

Fred Blackwell spun out of his desk chair, walked over to his partner's desk and stared down at the radar screen. "Damn!" He muttered while pushing his fingers through his hair. "Did you chart its course?"

"If it stays on it's present course it'll come straight across the Key Islands and it looks like a category four."

"Call the governor and let him know."

"We have four days, it could veer and head out back out into open waters."

"With all the hurricanes last year, I rather not wait."

Steven nodded; he had to agree, and picked up the phone.


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"Oh God this is going to be a mess!" Dave Culver leaned back in his chair after turning on the small television in his office. He just hung up the phone with headquarters in central Florida.

"You got one coming your way Culver. Better pull the files now so you and your people are ready when the mop up begins."

They've just finished with last years claims! Dave picked up the phone and dialed home. He liked living on the Florida coastline but it was times like these that he wondered why he stayed, and these times were happening more and more. His wife answered on the third ring.

"Hi Honey. Pack us up and be ready to go. We got one coming." He hung up and walked over to his office door. He may as well have his guys start pulling files for the region and have them download it onto their laptops. They could leave afterward to do whatever it was they had to do before heading out of the area. "Todd, Justin and Brad? Get in here." He was glad the main office okayed the building in of full length window shutters. Pull them out and bolt them down. Of course, if they got a head on hit...Dave sighed as he looked out over the ocean through the front office windows, it wouldn't make a difference.