{"id":1058,"date":"2015-04-11T23:51:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T03:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2019-07-29T21:39:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T21:39:02","slug":"a-hurricane-or-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/04\/11\/a-hurricane-or-war\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hurricane or War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/url.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18025 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/url.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When reading about the precautions taking when preparing for warm I could not help but realize that it greatly resembled the preparations taken when expecting to be hit by a hurricane. Living on an island on the east coast of Florida, this is the closest similarity I could draw to what was being described in\u00a0<em>Berlin at War,<\/em> by Roger Moorehouse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everyone is initially shocked:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moorehouse writes, &#8220;For most Berliners, therefore, the mood on the outbreak of war was one of shock;. Yet, though many had not realised the horrors the invasion of Poland portended, there was nonetheless a quiet determination to adapt to the new reality.&#8221; The same happens when a hurricane hits: no one really believes that it is happening and no one knows how bad the outcome will be, yet everyone is determined to survive it and adapt to the &#8220;new reality.&#8221; Everyone automatically switches to a fight or flight mentality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everyone Scrambles for Supplies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At \u00a0the onset of the war ration cards were distributed and many people scrambled to stock up on necessities. Moorehouse tells the story of how one boy was &#8220;lucky to leave with his booty in tact.&#8221; The same is true when preparing to survive a hurricane, everyone scrambles to buy as much as they can. It&#8217;s almost as bad as when you go to a grocery store the day before Thanksgiving, you&#8217;re lucky if you get out with your dignity.<\/p>\n<p><b>Everyone Prepares for Impact:<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Moorehouse mentioned in the book that seemingly overnight thousands of sand bags appeared lining the streets and everyone worked together to set everything up. The same thing happens in my hometown. All of a sudden thousands of sheets of plywood and metal\u00a0\u00a0shutters appear and everyone splits up setting up their own houses and helping out their neighbors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Sirens Sound and Everyone Scatters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once the air raid sirens sounded for the first time, the &#8220;streets of the capital were completely deserted&#8221; and the mood was &#8220;serious but calm and optimistic.&#8221; The same happens when a hurricane comes, once the sirens sound everyone retreats back\u00a0their barricaded houses and waits for the calm of the storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When reading about the precautions taking when preparing for warm I could not help but realize that it greatly resembled the preparations taken when expecting to be hit by a hurricane. Living on an island on the east coast of Florida, this is the closest similarity I could draw to what was being described in\u00a0Berlin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-field-studies","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18026,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/18026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}