from the Dog Days?
When I was little, we often had the power go off when hurricanes came by - - it was my chore to fill the tub with water to use for the commode - had flashlights and lanterns galore - and we children alternated plotting the latest coordinates given over the battery-operated radios on our map sheet with playing board games and cards by lantern light!
It was exciting to get to stay up LATE! LOL
I went through dozens of them in Florida - 4 in South Carolina - 2 in Virginia - 3 in North Carolina, etc.
Also was in Ohio for the Blizzard of '78, the 2 fronts of it converging on my bedroom window with 70 mph winds at 1 in the a.m.!!
Was by law confined to my apartment for 4 days so they could clean up the streets from it and the THREE snow storms of the prior week.
Going back a bit, I was in Fairbanks in March of 1964 when the Good Friday Earthquake happened - the strongest one ever in North America.... it, and the many strong aftershocks REALLY got our attention, and we were cut off from communications with the Lower 49 for 3 days.
Okay - I *might* have been accused by some as - well - being a precipitating factor in disasters??!!
I, however, DENY - DENY - DENY I am endowed with calamity power..:))
I, too, must deny calamity heck powers.
Usually I say, "It's NOT my fault!"
Keyword usually says it is..
If it didn't frag us, it won't frag you.
LOL! (Note to self: never stand next to LadyX in a thunderstorm...)
I was born and raised in a small town in south Louisiana. My family had a bomb shelter and we spent many nights there. I can remember in 1964 we were 4 generations. My grandmother was 79 and my niece was 5 days old.
It looks like the two storms out there now will miss Louisiana. I pray it won't be severe, wherever it goes.
I'm not even going to comment.......................