Hurricane Earl

[davidn]

You know, I've never been in a hurricane before. It seems to be remarkably similar to being in a light breeze.

And I got an email from the insurance people saying to prepare for no electricity for 48 hours and to start stocking up on tinned food.

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[jenny0.livejournal.com]

There have been two tropical storms since I've been here - no hurricanes yet (PLEASE DON'T JINX ME UNIVERSE) - and I was fairly impressed by them. Maybe because I have worked on islands the whole time and get to leave early depending on the tide schedule during storms.

[davidn]

We had had a few days of warnings and preparation for its arrival, and though I wasn't really afraid that it would do much to the integrity of our brick house, I was sort of nervous of the promise of 100mph winds. In the end it passed us by with absolutely nothing happening except a bit of rain and a few more leaves falling off the trees than usual.

There is now a wooden cupboard outside our back door for some reason... but I consider this unrelated.

[dr-dos.livejournal.com]

http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-432

[davidn]

As far as links that I would regret clicking on go, that could have been worse, and the expeditions put me in mind of watching Knightmare :) One of the most unsettling things about the wiki is the... casual treatment of the "D-class personnel", although this article gives the most blatant clues yet as to where they get them from.

I checked inside ours. It appears finite, and there's some paper stuck to the inside of the door.

[diarytypething.livejournal.com]

The only time that I've ever been to America, I noticed that their reaction to severe weather warnings was a bit alarmist compared to the exclamation-mark-on-a-map approach we have here. There was an outside chance that a hurricane would hit the area where we were staying, so the apartment complex issued letters warning us to stock up on tinned food, bottled water, and candles, then lock ourselves - plus supplies, valuables, and travel documents - in the bathroom overnight, as this was the only room without windows. We just took the balcony furniture indoors then went to bed as normal. The next day there was rain and 30-40mph winds, so we went to Disneyworld as planned; apart from a few other Scottish families in rain gear, it was all but deserted.

[davidn]

Perhaps we're made of tougher stuff :) Though from what I've seen of American weather, it can get a lot more... extreme... than Scotland's usual comfortable dreariness. I met someone I know from Nepal when he was staying here for a year, and even he said that the Boston winter was too cold for him.

What happened was that the weather warned us all of the worst case scenario, much like you saw from your apartment complex... there was a chance that we could have been hit a lot worse with it, but it suddenly changed direction by about ninety degrees and went out to sea instead.