@ETpro “I never thought to run outside among the flying roofing shingles, tree limbs and other debris to taste the rain.”
Wimp. ^_^
A bunch of friends and I went to the beach to watch Hurricane Jeanne come in. (Granted, it made first landfall on the other side of the state, and was a strong tropical storm by the time it got to us, but let’s not split hairs.) Holy crap that was fun. I could jump and fly backward ten feet. Our raincoats were pulled to pieces by the wind. We sat on the boardwalk to let the waves hit us. Got photographed for the newspaper and everything.
We went back the next day, driving around looking for fallen street signs (picked up no less than four Stop signs and one sign for Clark Avenue) and saw the boardwalk we had been sitting on was gone. It was pretty funny.
Oh, the air at the beach was pretty salty, but I figure that was more from the wind blowing around the Gulf water than the rain itself.