I feel like going surfing in a hurricane....
Jimmy Buffett lyric on the brain ...popped into my head when I saw the high surf advisory for Long Island due to Hurricane Danielle and Hurricane Earl. Long Island has been very lucky of late, hurricanes don't hit us directly, we only get the tidal surge and rough surf. I think the last big hurricane to hit us was Gloria -- and that was in the mid 80's. I was living in Brooklyn at the time and working in lower Manhattan, and when they closed my office building that morning due to high winds I made my way home in a subway ssytem that was starting to flood.... In the 90's there was Floyd, which did horrible damage to New Jersey but passed over Long Island with barely a whisper... Of course, the newspapers always talk about 1938, the great unnamed hurricane that devastated Long island. I have a feeling we're due for a bad one this year....