[Brokenfriend]

Originally Posted by Theta Z

You are a brave and intrepid traveler, Steve, even with pulling over!
I would have been tempted to pull into a motel!
Glad you weathered all those storms okay. How are your nerves?

Theta Z Thank you. I like that word Intrepid. There was a Air Craft Carrier called the Intrepid that served in WWII,and Vietnam.

My nerves are doing well. After going through a number of things like that,I feel that progress was made, and situations like that bring strength. BF

[Brokenfriend]

Originally Posted by Mari

Steve,

That's a cool TV!

I am glad that you pulled over when the storms hit when you were driving.

Keep taking care of yourself.

M

Mari Thank you. This is the third time this Spring,now Summer,that Sat. service was interrupted,and I used that little TV to find out what was going on. BF

[Theta Z]

Originally Posted by Brokenfriend

Mari Thank you. This is the third time this Spring,now Summer,that Sat. service was interrupted,and I used that little TV to find out what was going on. BF

It was important, living in the Gulf coast region, to have one such little battery operated tv, to watch the tracking of the storm.

In recent years now with such frequent and severe weather all over the country,
it is a good thing to have handy in foul weather.

[Brokenfriend]

I was working at a Supermarket on 9/11/2001. I heard about the event all day. Allot of people didn't come to work,and I stayed there all afternoon,and till after the store closed. Customers told me all day about the event,and what happened during that terrible morning.

After that event,I decided to buy a small Radio Shack battery powered TV. I brought it to work,and looked at what was going on at work during lunch after that day,or had it on standby after those days. I left it in my locker.

When TV went digital,that TV wasn't good for anything,so I bought this little digital AUVIO TV that has almost a 3,and 1/2 inch screen. I put my glasses on,and the screen is so clear. Progress!!! BF

[Mari]

After the US went digital, it was impossible to find a battery operated tv for a while -- I know because I looked.

Now if a storm comes, most of us can see what is happening with our tablets or phones . . . . as long as the phone has battery power.

When I was a teenager, my parents had no television.
We used to listen to the radio and track the storm on the handouts the grocery stores handed out at the beginning of the season.
I got very good with longitude and latitude.


Mari

[waves]

Originally Posted by Mari

When I was a teenager, my parents had no television.
We used to listen to the radio and track the storm on the handouts the grocery stores handed out at the beginning of the season.

Yes! Pin the tail on the hurricane! II grew up with those! We also got them free from the grocery stores.

I miss them. Not that I have an imminent need for them since moving out of hurricane territory, but I sometimes track storms "back home".

WunderMaps and the like are great, but I enjoyed the very hands-on process of putting pins in the paper map. And with these, even if the radio died, you could at least still see the info you had gathered so far.

waves

[Theta Z]

Originally Posted by waves

Yes! Pin the tail on the hurricane! II grew up with those! We also got them free from the grocery stores.

I miss them. Not that I have an imminent need for them since moving out of hurricane territory, but I sometimes track storms "back home".

WunderMaps and the like are great, but I enjoyed the very hands-on process of putting pins in the paper map. And with these, even if the radio died, you could at least still see the info you had gathered so far.

waves

As far as last year, the paper hurricane tracking maps still are out there on the Gulf Coast South, in newspapers, drugstores, hardware stores, etc.
We kept one on the side of the fridge, with a kitchen magnet.

[waves]

Did anyone here grow up in hurricane territory?

As a child (under 10), did you recognize the danger/feel scared of hurricanes?

I was born and grew up with seasonal hurricane threat. I'm not sure when exactly I started being aware... by age five I was for sure. And here's the thing......

I got an immense kick out of hurricane season. I revelled in the marking of maps, the hoarding of supplies, the herding of cats, the boarding of windows........ (the stuff we panic over, and with good reason).

The adults' panic never infected me. Even when I was old enough to understand that these storms could do damage, had seen pictures of the devastation, all I felt was awe and excitement. And when, as usual, they veered away, I was disappointed.

Anybody else? How crazy is that, or not so much?


Just as a footnote.... I never had the same kind of sympathetic bone for tornadoes. Those terrified me from the first day I learned what one was.

waves

[Mari]

Did anyone here grow up in hurricane territory?

There were two times we were a little bit inland.


This one we were a little bit inland (25 miles )but not by much.

As a child (under 10), did you recognize the danger/feel scared of hurricanes?

Absolutely.

I got an immense kick out of hurricane season. I revelled in the marking of maps, the hoarding of supplies, the herding of cats, the boarding of windows........ (the stuff we panic over, and with good reason).

There is a psychological thing at play and I would not be able to find it.
But something about our feelings being intense.

Also, we were out of school or expected to be out of school.
And our rhythms were disrupted.

And when, as usual, they veered away,

Not so much.
I prefer that we are left with peace after the storm goes away/ weakens.

But I can understand your feelings. I think the anticipation and the energy of everyone else increases our own.

About 7 or 8 years ago, I was on the phone when THE EYE of a weak-ish storm (cat 2) passed over our heads. We were still on the floor in case the glass windows were to shatter later but mostly felt that the storm was mostly a miss for us.

M

[waves]

Originally Posted by Mari

There were two times we were a little bit inland.

We had the same run-ins... or close.

The first one... we got its tail and it was plenty: Trees down, power out, water out, road hazards, flooding -- stray cat stranded in the dilly tree above the lake that was our yard. During the storm, dad went for a walk to "check the neighborhood". I got scared for him, and tried to go call to him, got 10 steps from the house before a gust picked me up and hurled me against the shed. I retreated indoors, fearing for my dad's life but also rather keen to hang onto my own. I don't know how he came back alive honestly. I didn't weigh much less than him. He retunred unperturbed. Perhaps I inherited something from him? But even then, with all my fascination for the weather, I thought he was insane/idiotic to go out in it... and wa a little angry with him. (By that time I was still fascinated but tamer, too. When I was little I'd get ridiculously excited. Perhaps it's not so strange... I supposee reactions to different things can vary.)

This one we were a little bit inland (25 miles )but not by much (nearish Va Beach).

That one was a really close call for us... as in we were completely boarded up for that one. I was little, and I was over the moooon with excitement! It veered, fortunately, considering that we lived in a house that shook when the cats ran about. I remember being disappointed and my mother trying to persuade me that it was a good thing.

Absolutely. Both parents grew up on an island.

Funny being on an island would be a reason for being scared. I was in fact on an island. Parents though. Hmmm. My parents did not grow up anywhere near hurricanes. Now my mother was riotously wound up whenever one of those things got close. I don't remember my dad's overall state. I don't remember him freaking. He might have been all don't worry be happy -- it's a frequent mode of his so it might not have stood out for me to remember it, but given he saw fit to go for walkies in a cat 5, perhaps he had curiosity that showed in other ways, and perhaps it rubbed off on me when I was small and engendered that intense fascination.

There is a psychological thing at play and I would not be able to find it.
But something about our feelings being intense.

Also, we were out of school or expected to be out of school.
And our rhythms were disrupted.

Perhaps that intense feelings can morph, but I'd think something has to influence how they morph. I don't know either.

Hurricanes mostly overlapped with vacation for me... so a storm would not have disrupted school.

I prefer that we are left with peace after the storm goes away/ weakens.

Your usee of the present suggests to me you feel the same way about them as you always did. I ... don't. I mean... I acquired the typical seense of "oh no" as an adult that was simply absent as a child, even though I was aware and respectful of the dangers. I don't think I have actual fear though, even now. Not with an "ordinary" storm and safe construction.

About 7 or 8 years ago, I was on the phone when THE EYE of a weak-ish storm (cat 2) passed over our heads. We were still on the floor in case the glass windows were to shatter but mostly felt that the storm was mostly a miss for us.

Yikes, yeah that can do damage. I guess I'm a bit confused why the windows weren't protected... unless it changed course suddenly....