![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Sep. 16th, 2004 02:35 pm
A little news item that gave me a smile:
Ivan forces relocation of the Hurricane Hunters.
Now, of course, this isn't really something to smile about. Except for the place that they relocated to--Homestead Reserve Air Base. Which used to be Homestead Air Force Base until a decade or so ago when Hurricane Andrew made a beeline for it, and since the base was supposed to shut down anyway, I figured they would just close it down. It's nice to see that that hasn't happened, that they just reused it for something else.
Why am I glad? Because that's where I was born. A place I have never seen in the almost 27 years since my parents moved away from Florida when I was 6 months old. A place I have always wanted to go back to visit and which, after Andrew, I thought was gone completely. Instead, it's not gone, just changed.
Which means I *can* go back there after all. Someday.
Which makes me smile.
Ivan forces relocation of the Hurricane Hunters.
Now, of course, this isn't really something to smile about. Except for the place that they relocated to--Homestead Reserve Air Base. Which used to be Homestead Air Force Base until a decade or so ago when Hurricane Andrew made a beeline for it, and since the base was supposed to shut down anyway, I figured they would just close it down. It's nice to see that that hasn't happened, that they just reused it for something else.
Why am I glad? Because that's where I was born. A place I have never seen in the almost 27 years since my parents moved away from Florida when I was 6 months old. A place I have always wanted to go back to visit and which, after Andrew, I thought was gone completely. Instead, it's not gone, just changed.
Which means I *can* go back there after all. Someday.
Which makes me smile.
