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To: SeekAndFind

If I could be in a secure location, with a good window to look out of, I think it’d be cool to experience a strong hurricane once.


8 posted on 08/26/2011 10:44:30 AM PDT by Jonty30
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“A Tycoon is a big bag of money. A Typhoon is a big bag of wind,” - Thurston Howell III


10 posted on 08/26/2011 10:53:48 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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I think it’d be cool to experience a strong hurricane once.

I experienced a Typhoon when I was 9 years old in Japan as an army dependent in the early 50s. Our house was on an Island protected by a 10 foot sea wall and was directly across a roadway from the wall. It was awsome to watch until the waves stated breaking over the wall and onto the roadway. Then fear I had never experienced kicked in and we ran for our lives toward higher ground. Eventually we spotted a military bus making the rounds to all the homes on the Island spending the rest of the night in a messhall on higher ground. It was scary. Our house was washed away minutes after we left it.


23 posted on 08/26/2011 12:52:32 PM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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