What Is Your Blow-Hard Experience?

I really haven't experienced much in the way of hurricanes in my lifetime, growing up in Maryland, then moving to Virginia. There was Agnes in 1979 which produced minor flooding and destruction of property and some washed out roads (along with the wind and rain, of course). There was a foot of water right outside the apartment house I was living in at the time. It wasn't too bad, but we all woke up to "doom and devastation" on the radio because Agnes was not supposed to come up into the Chesapeake Bay like it did! It was a surprise to all of us. Then, there was Floyd in 1999. I was living in southern Virginia at the time and we got a lot of wind and some flooding rains but, again, not much destruction. The worst thing that happened, personally, was that I had forgotten to bring in a plastic garbage can outside and saw it floating down the back yard heading for the road. (There was about 4" of floodwater there.) I rolled up my pants and ran outside, barefooted, after the trashcan saying the whole time, "Please don't fall on me, trees, please don't fall on me, trees!". Lastly, in 2004, while back in Maryland, there was Charley. We didn't get much more than some rain and breezy conditions, but our electricity went out and didn't come back on for 4 days. Some lines were down across the street so we had to be careful of them until they were repaired, but the worst was doing without electricity for 4 days. It's not too bad for me, well, it wasn't at the time because I have a lot of hobbies, reading included, that could be done outside during the day, without electricity. The worst, I think was food and cooking. But it wasn't that bad once I took a "camping" attitude and pretended to be camping inside the house! Cooking with propane and charcoal grills (outside, of course), keeping cold food inside a cooler with ice and using mostly canned food, I was able to get by nicely. My sons thought it was the pits, though, because they had to go without their computer games, TV and internet! Poor babies!

I live in Nebraska right smack in the middle of the United States so we don't get hurricanes we get alot of rain when hurricanes are hitting somewhre else though. I have seen hurricanes on tv and they really look scary.