>>I went thru Alicia in 1983 when it clobbered our area. And I don't think it was anywhere near Ivan's power. So yeah, I'd be scared.
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>>Fool I was at that age, a buddy of mine and I actually drove home from a concert we worked at during the hurricane. One of the few times I've ever seen the freeways empty...things blowing everywhere, transformers exploding all over the place...had to cross a downed powerline to get to my place. You might think we were out of our minds for trying it...and yeah, you'd be right. We kinda were.
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>I remember. I was living in Houston at the time of Alicia (August '83).
>Then I was living in Miami when Andrew (August '92).
>And last week, I went through Frances.
>Ivan seems to be the worst of all of these.

Alex;

I am beginning to see a pattern! :)

When I was in the Air Force I traveled all over the country and took trips about once a week the last 18 months of my enlistment. Everywhere I went they had record heat, snow, wind and you name it. More than one person told me, “We never had weather like this before you came here”! :)

We have not heard from Katy's sister and family for the last week. They moved from Lima, Peru to Boca Raton, Florida a few months ago. ¡Que pena!

Tom