> I can tell you have never been through a hurricane. They last more than one day and the following days are not nice.
I've been in around 8-12, starting in 1954, when the eye of Hurricane Carol went right over us, and we went out in the street and looked up at the sunny, calm sky in the middle of the eye, then went back in the house to hide again.
> You can't go to the store to get ice to keep your food from spoiling...
The local source of dry ice was out for several days; we had stocked up on regular ice ahead of time. You didn't?
> ... and you can't even gas up your car because the stupid pumps require electricity.
All the cars get filled up before the storm; no one drives very far until things mostly return to normal.
> You should really talk to the thousands of people that have been left homeless because they thought like you.
> Pete
Many people don't prepare ahead of time, or insist on staying with their home on the coast at 3 feet above sea level, when the predicted storm surge is 8 feet.
When you have lived through most of a dozen hurricanes, you don't feel a need to know what other people think of them.
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