Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
So far Hurricane Bill is still far enough out at sea to be completely unpredictable. I do love storms - we had one years ago, I forget, maybe it was a Hurricane Bob - they rarely are still hurricanes this far north - and one of the housemates and I stood on the porch for a while, watching the trees whip about. I was just fascinated, enjoying the wind and the rain. When I finally went in, the only dry spot on my clothes was the stripe across my midsection, where my arms had been folded! And while no branches fell on our yard while we watched, after we went inside, one did end up falling on the one car that hadn't been moved - it belonged to someone who didn't live in our building, so was "illegally" parked anyway. Those of us who lived there saw that tree getting thrown about, and had moved our cars away from where branches would land.

It has still been very hot and humid here - I'll take a VERY large iced tea, please!
Both of us are too young to remember the '38 hurricane that roared up the east coast and flooded Providence. My mother used to regale me with her stories. She walked up the front walk, coming home early from work - and 5 minutes after she got in the house, one of the huge oak trees fell right over the front walk. I still have the book put out by the Providence Journal, with pictures of the damage from that storm.