Manolo says, here is the Manolo’s latest column for the Express of the Washington Post.

Dear Manolo,

This is a question of pressing importance. What do you suggest in the way of stylish rain boots, something that can stand up to the demands of a category four hurricane?

Ellen

Manolo says, ayyyyy! 2011 is turning out to be the annus horribilis, the Latin technical term which sound like the unpleasant personal condition, but actually means the “Year of Horrors.”

Our horrific year began with the succession of the late winter Snopocalypses, each one colder and snowier than the last. This was followed by the chilly, soggy, and disappointingly brief spring, which gave way to the summer of successive and unprecedented heat waves.

And that was just the weather!

The Manolo has not even mentioned how our politics and economy and society have all simultaneously gone cuckoo crazy. Up is down and backwards is forwards, what with the flash mobs, and the rioting, and the stock market crashing, and the unseemly political wrangling.

And this week….Ayyyy! It is not enough that we have just had the major earthquake, but now there is the hurricane forcasted to barrel down upon us by the weekend.

What next? Meteors?

In light of this, the Manolo recommends the original high gloss Hunter rain boots in the candy pink (one of nine available colors). At the least, you can wear somthing fun and girly as you wade to the corner Quikmart to loot the Kardashian wedding issue of People from its ruins.