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2019 Hosts of the Ready or Not …

South Florida Hurricane season in Florida runs June through November —
and ask any Floridian, it’s an extremely long 6 months. Weather
Healthcare reports seem endless and every forecast of a white blob hundreds
of miles away seems to stress 2 things: 1. Don’t panic; and 2.
Networking Group Panic! The blob is definitely coming for you and its arrival won’t
be good.
In the Felix house, June 1st usually means Carol gets out her
magnifying glass to check the expiration dates on soup and fruit
cocktail and even batteries. So, while others are grilling baked
beans on Memorial Day, Carol and I are cleaning out the back
closet, tossing old supplies and throwing cans of those dangerous
ENCOMPASS HEALTH baked beans out. Carol’s the type who wears safety gloves when
REHABILITATION handling expired food, so needless to say we don’t have much car-
ryover. But at least this year, instead of tossing the expired water
HOSPITAL OF MIAMI we used it to water the plants.
AND Luckily in South Florida, last year was pretty
quiet. We had a couple of false alarms but nothing like the Panhandle. Of course, this didn’t stop
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Carol from uttering the one question she asks each year, “How long will it take to get our hurri-
cane shutters out of the braces on the garage wall and installed?” I’m convinced she’s decided
For information about that as I get older, the time will increase. (One more thing she’s probably right about …)
our next meeting of But you know me, when life gives me lemons (or hurricane predictions), it’s time to buy
some lemonade. Or in this case, shop for the hurricane supplies I can’t live without this sea-
SFHNG, son. I’ve already decided it’s time to upgrade my gasoline pumping system for our generator,
please email so investing in a bigger and better battery-operated pump is definitely in my future. And no
doubt, while Carol is out shopping for more canned tuna fish and Spaghetti O’s, I’ll be brows-
charles@ ing the aisles of Best Buy and surfing on Amazon for more hurricane gadgets we CAN’T
southfloridahospitalnews.com live without.

Charles Felix

You can reach Charles Felix at
THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS
Charles@southfloridahospitalnews.com

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