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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI know that hurricanes are horrible things, but to me, there's also a strange beauty to them...
For the ones I've been through, from where I was safe and sound inside... I found the sound of the constant winds comforting.
I can't explain it.
Some of the best sleeps happened during hurricanes... No TV or lights, the gentle candlelight illuminating the evening, the harsh winds constantly whispering in the background. It was sort of mediative for me, as nature itself forced me to disregard the mundane worries of life.
I've been lucky throughout the years, I've never had to deal with a blown roof or floods.
One of the most peacefully strange things that I've ever seen was once a hurricane passed through Southern Virginia late at night and there was the complete lack of sound and light. Pitch dark, no sound of bugs or birds. My wife and I just sat there on our stoop and drank in all the quiet.
Now that I've been back to Michigan for the last ten years, I haven't had to experience any of that.
Yet, I don't miss it at all and I never want to experience again.
May all the people going through Florence right now be safe and sound.
tblue37
(65,442 posts)living creatures in its path.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Or super heavy rains. It's very peaceful in a way.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)risks, but there were still unknowns. Wind, dark clouds, big waves, mostly deserted. This was decades ago when one could exit quickly if needed. Nowadays, Im content hiking in hard rains and thunderstorms.
moriah
(8,311 posts)... especially when radar was tracking it straight to the place I was working...
Is somewhat shared with others. Even if I stayed VERY close to the door, that time I barely missed the tornado before I got inside. The building was shaking within seconds of entering.