Story archives - tag: "hurricane"

Thanks, Gustav!

201 electricity-free hours will make you reconsider ever buying frozen fish again.

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2008-09-10 14:40:14 / Rating: 144 /

caity.

When I came home, I saw my house cradling nine fallen pine trees; I shuddered.

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2007-09-24 09:29:53 / Rating: 131 /

cparisb4udie

As Katrina's waters rose, this became clear: how you loved and lived your life BEFORE the storm came - that determined, to a large extent, how well you survived AFTER it passed.

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2006-09-11 22:18:29 / Rating: 246.25 /

Sullivan

When the winds kicked up and the waters came, I lived and they didn't.

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2006-09-04 23:01:30 / Rating: 176 /

Tony

When hurricane Frederick hit our home town my brother was upset because the TV movie of the week, The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings, was pre-empted for hurricane coverage.

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2006-08-17 17:29:32 / Rating: 169 /