PENSACOLA, Fla. ( WKRG ) — Well earlier this month, I began a little photo campaign on social media that I called #lingeroctober. I did that because October has always been my favorite month of the year. The temperatures are usually a little lower and crisper, the colors in nature are more vivid, and, well… it’s my birthday month.
My postings were going pretty well for awhile and some of you even joined in the fun. Then things got a little messy.
I was in South Florida when Hurricane Helene began marching toward us… and my husband and I were part of that evacuation. We’d barely gotten back and unpacked when Hurricane Milton forced us to go on the run again. Suddenly, I couldn’t find the beauty in October…and the photos stopped.
Sometimes in life, we are in the middle of a beautiful “October season” so to speak. Then, out of nowhere, an ugly, fierce, destructive storm shows up and leaves us sitting amid the rubble. What do we do?
I’ve been watching the people who were badly hurt by Helene and Milton. For the most part, they are working to come back from the storm. They are letting go of what was ripped up, salvaging the good things that they can, and vowing to come back stronger than before.