It appears an awful lot of us are experiencing natural disasters lately.
zenvelo, DominicY, Jeruba, Coloma, JohnPowers
Strauss
@Strauss LOL. I’ve been above the Mason-Dixon only once during the winter. Boston, 1978. I was only supposed be there for three days, so I didn’t bring any heavy winter clothes with me from Florida. LOL. Tell me a blizzard isn’t a natural disaster. I was stuck inside Logan for more than a week.
Brian1946, Kardamom
NomoreYA, snowberry and all our other Texans
McGrimm and Hurricane Matthew last year, and now JLeslie and McGrimm under threat of Irma
janbb and all our Northeasterners hit by Sandy in 2012
@Pied_Pfeffer I worked a lot of those seemingly back-to-back Mississippi floods as a member of a DMAT back in the 1990s and early 2000s. I’ll never forget this one guy, a Memphis restaurateur who lost his whole business back in one of those floods in the ‘90s. He put up a tent, dragged out a bunch of stainless steel gas grills and ovens, put his crew cooking up all his stock and he personally fed us, personally served us all. He fed anyone that was there until all the food was gone. What a relief it was from all those MREs. I’ll never forget that guy. That man had heart.
I’m getting the outer bands of Irma at the moment. Just a bit of wind and rain. But I got lucky. I’m in the Windwards, in the lower part of the Leewards, on St. Lucia at 14°N 61°W and by now she is at 17°N 55°W moving WNW 244° toward the Virgins at about 12mph. So, we should get only heavy rain, wind and seas beginning tomorrow night. It looks like the Virgins and Puerto Rico are going to get hit hard.