I follow a bunch of different people from all sorts of different backgrounds on Youtube, some because they are interesting and some just because they are nice to look at. There is one certain Houseboat girl I follow and she is fairly young and attractive and has been touting the carefree life of living aboard a very old beat up houseboat, nothing wrong with it, but it is tiny, maybe 20-25 feet long but she lives alone and makes it work. At a certain point she even got a van, so now she can show us adventures on the water and even adventures on land as she goes overnighting on her van to different locales.
In the latest video she had was getting through Hurricane Isaias and she apparently had many days advance notice that the tropical depression was coming. We see her going to various stores trying to get more rope and fenders to secure her houseboat to the dock. All the while I am seeing her use these super thin lines and thinking "well, those will snap as soon as the winds pick up" and she is somehow hanging the fenders from the rails on the top of her houseboat which with that much rope leeway are just going to be bouncing off the side of the houseboat and not protecting anything. But once again, she has all this time and her efforts are more in worrying about tying stuff down so it doesn't get blown away, like her kayak which she keeps on the dock and her table and chairs which normally sit on her tiny patio outside, I do really like the houseboat for one person, a family would not fit. She casually mentions that the battery is dead so she can't do anything about the motor, so it will just stay where it is, backed up against the dock, but she has all these little ropes to hold the boat in place.
Then the winds start picking up and she is STILL IN THE HOUSEBOAT, IN A HURRICANE. Not to worry, she bought her dog companion a chewing toy so he wouldn't be nervous. "Stupid girl" is all I could think. At first it is only raining, so she is being all cool and stuff, but later it starts getting real and at some point before shit hits the fan, she bolts to her van. At least she is on solid ground now, I thought. She calls a friend who very nicely offers her a solid structure to go and park her van under. We see her viewpoint and now there is no sound of rain or noise bothering them, they seem well sheltered. She asks if they can weather the storm inside and the friend's BF says no on account of the dog. It is a husky and is a pretty good sized dog, so I kind of get it, but it still seems like a dick move. She goes back to the van, but two hours later, she has a screaming fit with the BF and demands she be let in, which they do, for a few hours of the worst of the storm.
She has now been crying and sorry for all the wrongs she has ever done and maybe rethinking her life decisions, but alas, it is a new day. She heads back to the marina to check on her home. Several of the docks simply gave way and are floating all over the protected bay way off in the distance. Her dock was against the shore, so it was more solid and survived, other than the motor getting jammed under the dock. She got 8-9 guys to stand on the back of her houseboat and that sank it enough to be able to get the motor out from under the dock.
All this is understandable until the end when she says "one of my friends here has a big truck and he just offered to hook my trailer up and pull my houseboat out of the water." This dumb girl had the ability to take her boat out of the water and protect it farther inland, but thought it would be a good idea to ride out a hurricane in a boat tied up against docks. She only left her boat when the motion of the boat started making her realize she might be in danger. On a side note, her friend should have helped her, but she does not have a right to demand to be taken in at the last minute with her dog. She owes the friend and the BF big time, if he allergic to dogs, maybe pay for a housecleaner to come and clean up after the dog. You and many in this country see dogs as family member, but not everybody holds those values and for a myriad of reasons.
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