[Dog Gone]

No, I'm in the Houston area now. I used to live in Louisiana and always wanted to experience a hurricane. My wish came true 13 years ago when I was living there and the eye of Andrew came three miles from my house and tree limbs broke the brick exterior.

And Andrew was only a Cat 3 storm (probably only Cat 2 when I got the worst of it).

[Types_with_Fist]

...and always wanted to experience a hurricane.

I've experienced a few. It's highly overrated...:-)

I remember talking to a good friend of mine after Andrew ... a Texas native (He got almost the direct hit in Terrebonne Parish and I was living in California at the time). Naturally, he tried to make it sound like it was nothing. His wife got on the extension and told him to quit lying because he had been "scared to death." LOL!

[LibSnubber]

"I used to live in Louisiana and always wanted to experience a hurricane."

Don't know how bad you had it when you experienced Andrew. But I find experiencing the actual hurricane totally scary. The wind howling so loud you can hear almost nothing else, except that is, for the sounds of breaking glass, debris hitting the house, and then there's that sound of your house "moaning" under the force of the winds. THEN, afterwards, there's no power for days and days. Miserably high, muggy heat. No A/C, no showers, no toilets you can flush. Not to mention the cleaning up you have to... To me, the aftermath is as miserable as the hurricane is scary.