If you have an empty stomach, read this.

It’s one thing to look at Florida and think about how bad the Floridians have it - and I’m not saying they don’t have it bad.

But when you compare what three hurricanes did to Florida with what one tropical storm did to Haiti… there is no comparison.

Without getting all religious and proclaiming the arrival of Armageddon, this kind of extreme weather seems to be the rule rather than the exception lately. It makes me wonder if we as Canadians are in for a surprise one of these winters. A surprise that maybe will even exceed the severity of the “Ice Storm of 1998″. I remember it well. Luckily I wasn’t in the area that got hit the worse, but my parents were. And my late grandfather was.

I remember after the storm seeing hydro trucks on the 401 from just about every state of the United States - except Hawaii and Alaska. I remember talking on the phone with my relatives and friends and listening to them talk about “the great guys who came all the way from Florida” to fix their hydro poles and restore power in their neighbourhoods. And I remember listening to my grandfather after the storm was over talk about the Canadian Forces unit who moved into Winchester, Ontario and setup a set of generators at North Dundas District High School and heated the school so that people had a place to keep from freezing to death while they repaired the power grid.

It could happen again. It really could. We’re not immune.

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