Even after 18 years in Tornado Alley, I'd still prefer a hurricane to a twister! That comes from growing up in S. TEXAS. Hot weather? Don't particularly care for it, but it's pretty much normal for me. Summer storms? Rare rains? Ditto. Warm Christmas? Been there, done that many times.
Hurricanes are bad storms and they can be devastating. They are the kind of storms I grew up with, although in San Antonio we were far enough from the coast that (for the most part) when they got that far inland they were "just" bad storms and seldom had tornadic winds. Along the coast and near-inland, they could be tornadic and were terrible.
One of the highlights was always the storm names for each year. Some years, there were some real humdingers**. Bill's still thrilled that both Bill and William have been on the name list in the recent past. Here's this year's list:
2011 Atlantic Hurricane Names
Arlene
Bret
Cindy
Don
Emily
Franklin
Gert
Harvey
Irene
Jose
Katia
Lee
Maria
Nate
Ophelia
Philippe
Rina
Sean
Tammy
Vince
Whitney
I see a few names of interest.
**Humdinger may well be a Texan language word, I'm not sure. It means big, major, extreme and words to that effect.
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trying again. My original comment was that I can remember having tornadoes, high winds, and flooding rains from hurricanes. The hurricane has to come in and then turn so that we get the right side of the storm.
Do you remember the cousins coming up from Divine and Alice and we all slept on the floor and played? They would come in when a hurricane was forecast for the coast.
I also remember the trips to Pt. A after a hurricane, to see if the Wreck house needed any work. Remember the time that the garage of the Wreck house was gone - except for the bathroom?
I had forgotten about that. We should probably write down the stories about the coast for Toadles.
Froggy
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