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To: hardspunned

This makes me have awesome respect for the early sea faring people who had to sail the high seas and had no way of predicting storms like this one.


1,365 posted on 09/28/2022 8:35:00 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU
This makes me have awesome respect for the early sea faring people who had to sail the high seas and had no way of predicting storms like this one.

They used to call those storms a tempest.

I can't imagine sailing into one of those in a pre 20th Century ship. There were a lot of shipwrecks.

1,414 posted on 09/28/2022 9:00:58 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,116,490 active users on Truth Social)
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