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Posted by Bill S on October 9, 2006 at 7:13:05 pm EDT
In reply to Re: Thunderstorms posted by ministercreek on October 9, 2006 at 6:04:02 pm EDT

Good thing you are a minister and God is on your side. Somehow your bravado reminds me of a story I heard many years ago when I was living in Mississippi. Seems a preacher was driving on a country road when he came up behind a car that was clearly being driven by a drunk. The drunk was weaving all over the road. After following patiently for ten or fifteen minutes, the preacher decided "I better get around this fellow before he kills us both." At a somewhat wider spot, as the drunk veered to the right, the preacher gunned it and pulled out around the drunk. But the road proved a bit slippery, and the preacher's car slid off the road and rolled over. The drunk stopped, walked over to the car, and asked if the preacher was all right. Preacher replied, "I'm fine, God's at my side." Drunk replies, "Better have Him ride with me, 'cause he's gonna get hurt riding with you, driving like that."

As Ed says, clearly you haven't been through a significant storm, much less a serious hurricane. "Hubris" is the term for what you are expressing, with an excess of "macho" thrown in. Remember the people who have stayed in beachfront hotels in various hurricanes along the southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts, only to find that those steel-reinforced concrete buildings vanished in the storm. Take a look at the photos from the Cat 3, 4, and 5 hurricanes that have gone through Florida, the North Carolina barrier islands, or Galveston. Do you really believe your tent will still be there after one of those?

While I have never been near the eye of a Cat 3 or higher hurricane (closest was 75 miles from one), and never experienced a tornado first hand, I have seen the damage within a few hours after. And I have experienced storms on mountains that I measured 50 knot winds (and were reported by the ranger station to have measured 75 knot gusts). That's mild compared to a hurricane. I won't voluntarily go through a real hurricane in a building, much less a tent, because of what I witnessed at a lower level.

Or maybe you are just putting us on? Yeah, that must be it - you aren't really serious.

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• Re: hurricanes.................... - ministercreek 21:25:55 10/09/2006
  • Re: hurricanes.................... - adam g 10:38:38 10/10/2006
    • Re: hurricanes.................... - ministercreek 14:59:56 10/10/2006
      • Re: hurricanes.................... - Bill S 18:40:13 10/10/2006
        • Re: hurricanes.................... - ministercreek 20:02:13 10/10/2006
      • Re: hurricanes.................... - Dave 15:20:04 10/10/2006
    • Re: hurricanes.................... - ministercreek 14:47:51 10/10/2006
      • Re: hurricanes.................... - adam g 17:31:15 10/10/2006
  • Re: hurricanes.................... - Ed G 03:42:51 10/10/2006
    • Re: hurricanes.................... - Blackbeard 05:16:12 10/10/2006

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