What I Learned From Hurricane Matthew

• If you can’t find a hotel within a 170 mile radius. you may elect to sleep in your van.  Some people I know drove to Alabama (the nearest Alabama town of any size is 260 miles away) to get a hotel. Us? No thanks.
• Humility
• WalMart at 4 a.m...is not much different than WalMart at 4 p.m., but has fewer shoppers.
• We are a culture of convenience, balking and flailing when without electricity and running water, not to mention technology.
• Our News4Jax news team is genuinely concerned for us.
• Governor Rick Scott is a bit scary when a hurricane is coming.
• The song “Riding the Storm Out” (REO Speedwagon), may get stuck in your head—even though it’s about a winter storm in the Rocky Mountains.
• Thankfulness - for power, food, internet, news teams, JEA (power company here), having family to weather the storm with, and last but not least, finding a hotel after the storm to wait out the almost 4-day power outage 
• Hurricane is a silly name for something that does anything but hurry. (I know, “hurry” is not part of the etymology of the word, “hurricane.”)
• We are not in charge of our world.
• Most importantly and universally applicable, the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not take life for granted.