I have a few odd memories - getting to sleep with 2 chairs pushed together when I was little as Hazel passed thru PA; having Diana's eye pass over us when we lived in NC; Agnes destroying this whole area in PA - we lived along the Susquehanna and had to chain the car to a tree and high-tail it up the mountain - the flooding was incredible; having to evacuate right in the middle of Floyd(we lived a couple blocks from the beach) to head to VA for our son's wedding only to have Floyd follow us up there where we had to evacuate his place when it hit them the day before the wedding. We took our cat who was terrified of noise and to be outside. He had to spend the hurricane in our truck since our son had 2 GS dogs that would have eaten him. We took turns all nite long going out in the storm and sitting with him in the truck, poor kitty. He was fine when it was all over and the day after the storm, the wedding was perfect - it was on the beach at the Norfolk Naval Base. That's it for me - aside from losing alot of things during Agnes, we have been very lucky. I am praying for all those families in the path of Ike, right now. That is a very scary storm. God Bless and watch over you all. |