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<\/a>One wonders if there is not some diabolical mind<\/a> out there who has created a weather machine and is bent on destroying us. If this one makes landfall as expected, it will once again test our resolve and resources to the extreme.<\/p>\nEveryone together now: Dear God, please tell Wilma to get lost.<\/p>\n
My wife and I were discussing this and other weighty matters during a rare dinner out sans kids. We considered the prospects of running away together to some “safe” place where nothing much (especially hurricanes) ever happens.<\/p>\n
It suddenly occured to me that nothing much ever happens in Montana<\/a>. Think about it . When was the last time that you ever heard about anything bad happening in Big Sky Country? “I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck…maybe even a “recreational vehicle.”<\/p>\n Ah, the life. I already have a good American woman (who is anything but round for the record), so I all need to pick up is, well, a pickup, and we’ll be good to go.<\/p>\n Captain Borodin, unfortunately, never made it there, but that doesn’t mean we can’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whenever I hear the name “Wilma” usually two things pop into my mind: my mom’s friend in Virginia and Fred Flintstone’s longsuffering wife. That may soon change. This morning, Hurricane Wilma, the third Category 5 storm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9179,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/9179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSurely that’s what Captain Vasily Borodin must have had in mind. He was Sam Neill’s character in The Hunt for Red October<\/a> who was fascinated with the prospect of defecting to a country where he could travel with “no papers” and settle in a state where he could carve out the kind of life that any man dreams of:<\/p>\n