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Sandy, the "super" storm...........
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 559004" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Well people have a really bad habit of thinking that anything under a Cat 3 Hurricane is nothing down here and we can just sit out on our porches and sip mixed drinks with little umbrellas in them. I think we have gotten a bit lazy because it has been a long time since we have been directly hit and even with all the hurricanes we have had hit our coastal areas, memories are very short. If you werent directly impacted, it was just a news story. If all you had was a bit of leaves and debris, well it was just an exciting event. </p><p></p><p>I have gone through many of them and we evacuated for one quite serious one that hit us dead on then left, we went home and it turned around and came back to hit us again. We got an emergency evacuation in the middle of the night into a shelter because we lived a block off the beach. Odd thing was we left an empty beer can sitting upright on the steps leading to the second story of the building from the outside and it was still there when we got home...unharmed. LOL. I think we would have been fine. </p><p></p><p>People especially up north havent been through this stuff because they didnt used to do this. They got the bad nor'easters but not the hurricanes moving up the coast. When I lived in Richmond my entire childhood I never once heard of a hurricane coming through there. Now they have had several. Weather has changed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 559004, member: 1514"] Well people have a really bad habit of thinking that anything under a Cat 3 Hurricane is nothing down here and we can just sit out on our porches and sip mixed drinks with little umbrellas in them. I think we have gotten a bit lazy because it has been a long time since we have been directly hit and even with all the hurricanes we have had hit our coastal areas, memories are very short. If you werent directly impacted, it was just a news story. If all you had was a bit of leaves and debris, well it was just an exciting event. I have gone through many of them and we evacuated for one quite serious one that hit us dead on then left, we went home and it turned around and came back to hit us again. We got an emergency evacuation in the middle of the night into a shelter because we lived a block off the beach. Odd thing was we left an empty beer can sitting upright on the steps leading to the second story of the building from the outside and it was still there when we got home...unharmed. LOL. I think we would have been fine. People especially up north havent been through this stuff because they didnt used to do this. They got the bad nor'easters but not the hurricanes moving up the coast. When I lived in Richmond my entire childhood I never once heard of a hurricane coming through there. Now they have had several. Weather has changed. [/QUOTE]
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