Takes Me Back 40 Years
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86568)
United States
August 29, 2019 11:57am CST
Here it is, Labor Day weekend approaching, and a hurricane with a “D” name is heading for Florida.
That takes me back 40 years.
My first duty station after boot camp was NAS Jacksonville, Florida. I was home on leave in late August when news began to focus on a hurricane named David, and that it was heading for Florida.
Well, that put an abrupt end to my first post-boot camp leave!
I left home early to get to Jacksonville before Hurricane David did.
My first weekend of life in the “real Navy” (they always told us in boot camp things were different in “the real Navy”) was spent hunkered down in the barracks.
The damage wasn’t terrible on the base, as David meandered offshore up the Florida coast before slamming into Savannah, Georgia. The name David was retired.
I hope Dorian goes away.
The appropriate song:
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season · Jimmy Buffett A-1-A ? 1974 Geffen Records Released on: 1974-01-01 Produ...
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@FourWalls (86568)
• United States
30 Aug 19
Wind and rain. And wind and rain. And more wind and more rain.
In 1975 we lived on the west coast of Florida in a mobile home, and the very outer fringes of Eloise went by in the Gulf of Mexico. It felt like the mobile home was on one of those paint shakers. 
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@FourWalls (86568)
• United States
30 Aug 19
@JudyEv — there are regulations in Florida about securing mobile homes. Winds around 160 MPH are no match for site-built buildings, so mobile homes don’t stand much of a chance.
Having said that, as with any disaster you can see five houses demolished and a house next to them untouched.
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@JudyEv (381743)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Aug 19
@FourWalls That would have been very scary. I guess people tie down their motor homes to the best of their ability?
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@FourWalls (86568)
• United States
29 Aug 19
Stand by, I’m going to debut a Jimmy Buffett countdown today or tomorrow. 
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@FourWalls (86568)
• United States
29 Aug 19
Brr! My brother graduated from there in September 1971 and I nearly froze my butt off!! I went through boot camp in Orlando....in summer. No worries about the cold there!
