I hit the rack (my rack was DIRECTLY under the #3 wire, top rack...with a 1MC between me and the underside of the deck!) and woke up sometime around 0300 in the dark, and I heard this very loudly:
"WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM"
I just did this experiment to recreate it exactly: That is 26 "WHAMS" and do that in six seconds. Time it! Now imagine hearing that in the dark, and the guy in the rack below you is hitting the underside of your rack with a large encyclopedia with each wham...that is what it felt like!
I got dressed and went down to the fantail...it was awesome.
A mountain of white water...(they wouldn't let us go out there, but they let us Airdales walk up to the roped off part and look...:)
And I fully expect the Big E was even more impressive!
Ri, hubs did a cruise on the big E and was similarly situated...right under the flight deck. And he was on the Group Staff...
To this day, the man sleeps through hurricanes...