I've gone through it once but never again. Take my word for it, it's not worth it. At first I thought it was funny. Well, I was 15 and walking home from a sports practice. The lights were flickering in the shower. I was walking home as it hit. I was blown off the sidewalk as I walked home and for some odd reason I started laughing. I got to the intersection of Salmon and Vista and a police officer told me to duck into an apartment building fast. That's what I did. As I walked home after the storm passed I couldn't walk half a block without encountering a downed obstacle in the form of either a tree, a telephone/power pole or a live downed wire. Uh uh, never again.
I have an infatuation with hurricanes. They've fascinated me since I was 7 years old. I tracked every storm in 2005 on a map at the age of 9. I've always wanted to. Ideally, it'd be in a high rise parking garage.
I've had so much laser surgery in my left eye and botched cataract surgery that I've probably got somewhere around 2% vision in that eye. My other eye ain't too great. I've gone under the knife in the left eye about three times and it never got any better only worse. One time the technician accidentally gave me contact lens cleaner rather than proper eye drops. That hurt so much that I literally cried. It didn't hurt at first. It started hurting on my way home. Had to retrieve the doctor and get back to the hospital pronto. By that time I was begging for relief. Geez, now I'm ugly AND I can't see. Life sucks, and then you die.
Yeah, I was hoping the detached retina surgery and then the cataract surgery would bring me back to good eyesight but I probably have about 50%. I can see objects and color but it is somewhat distorted and can barely read the big letters on the eye chart.
That was a nasty storm. Glad to hear that you and other members families made it through. Now for the rebuilding.
After seeing all the destruction, I was surprised to hear that just 6 died. All the same, RIP. Glad everyones family from RC2 made it.
