Hurricane Country

If you live in a region of the United States annually affected by tropical storms, this is the time of year when you will no doubt be paying much greater attention to weather news and forecasts. I speak from experience when I say that one can't be overly prepared for a possible tropical storm. We lived in coastal North Carolina for several years back in the late 1990's and experienced four major hurricanes in a two-year period, when we had to evacuate…one of those was Floyd, one of the most destructive storms ever to hit North Carolina. But most of the damage from Floyd was not from wind, it was from the storm surge followed by massive rains and resulting flooding. Major highways were closed for days, power was out for weeks in some areas, and it took even weeks more before things got back to a sort of normalcy. When we felt we were out of the woods that year, another storm came to call late in the season and we had to evacuate all over again…not a fun experience. It's been a fairly long time since a major storm hit land along the east coast, and I'm sure many living in harms way there are not paying enough attention this year. Bad move. Get prepared for whatever may come.