#frozensthoughts

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I have no electricity, no running water so I haven't showered since last Tuesday, and my cell signal is spotty. But that's the least of my worries.

Hurricane Ian was a freak of nature. It remained a category 3 hurricane long after it made landfall. Winds in my area were clocking 140 mph with gusts up to 160 mph. I could only sit and watch my neighbors trees, roof shingles, and solar panels blow away. Hurricane Ian basically wiped my hometown off the map. Ft. Myers beach, where I made so many memories with my friends and family was completely leveled in a matter of hours. The Sanibel causeway, which was rebuilt after hurricane Charley blew it down back in 2004, is now gone again. Pine Island and Matlacha were decimated. The flooding was horrible. And its still causing problems throughout my state. So many people lost their homes. And lives were lost; the death toll is slowly rising as search and rescue teams look through the carnage. It's unreal. It almost feels like a never ending nightmare. And the weirder thing is, it was absolutely gorgeous outside the day after Ian hit. Partly cloudy, 60° weather, breezy..

I don't think people who live outside of hurricane infested states understand how devastating these storms are. I've lived in Florida my whole life. I was here to witness hurricane Charley, Wilma, and Irma, the worst 3 hurricanes to hit my area. But none of them compared to Ian. This was the first hurricane where I was legitimately worried for mine and my family's safety. And I know some people will ask "Why didn't you evacuate?" Well, some can't and some won't. I worked up until the day before Ian made landfall. Some can't afford to leave. Others have disabilities that would make it hard to travel, like my partner, he has kidney failure and taking his dialysis machine and all the accessories that go with it is a pain. People could have pets, and traveling with pets can be hard.

But most people don't want to leave because this is our home. And nobody wants to leave knowing that they may not have a home to come back to.

And please, to any northerners who come to Florida every winter, please stay home this year. Let us have our home for once. Let us rebuild what was lost. Let us grieve what we lost, because we all lost a lot.

[frozendakeri]

Well my partner and I got into an accident today. Totalled our vehicle. We had to hit the brakes and we lost control of our car. We ended up jumping the median and skidded across the opposite lanes of traffic. The windshield is fucked, we cracked the oil pan, and the airbags deployed.

Today is not our day. So now we're out of a vehicle.

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Lmao a nasty storm just rolled in and the power went out at my work right as I was cashing out a customer. Fuck my drag, right? Thunder is literally shaking my windows. And now there's hail on top of everything. I hate Florida.

[frozendakeri]

Men who are quiet about todays Roe vs Wade decision: just know your sisters, nieces, cousins, girlfriends, fiancés, moms, friends… they all hear your silence loud and clear.

We all do.

[frozendakeri]

I love reading NSFW fictions where homegirl is getting her cervix slammed by some giant dick and I'm just sitting here thinking "Sis are you okay??" 😭😭😭

Cervix pain isn't talked about enough.