Bill DeWitt wrote:

>     Using reality to simulate POV I went to the beach. The edge of hurricane
> Dennis was clearly visible, but without the knowledge that it was -possible-
> to see it I would have just assumed that there were some clouds between me
> and it. Having been raised in Florida I can tell when a hurricane is in the
> area and for some time before we really felt the wind I was sure I was
> seeing the storm.
> 
>     I am a hurricane lover and even now that I own property I would rather
> have a hurricane than have safety. In fact I have been known to offend
> people by expressing the opinion that if a big enough one came we would be
> rid of all the condos and might even have a new port down in south Cocoa
> Beach.... about where A1A comes back together....>8-}


 Sometime around 1978/79 I was setting up mobile homes in Colorado and
Wyoming. One early afternoon on a hill over looking Cheyenne Wyoming I
saw what looked like a column of smoke rising on the other side of town.
We were setting up a new 65' double wide mobile home on a custom lot.
As we watch another column of smoke dropped out of the clouds !!?
We watched as 5 more columns of smoke dropped out of the sky in a
matter of 4 minuets time with 7 all told visible at once.
 They were of course tornados forming from a major hail storm system
parked right over the town. I looked over at my co worker and pointed
out that we were on an exposed ridge, setting up large 15 ton empty
unanchored boxes, and that I was getting the heck out of there. He
agreed and we drove 50 miles south to where we lived and called it a
day. On the way home we ran through two hail storms the worst of which
had hail a bit larger that golf balls and it was like trying to drive
on a road covered with marbles of that size. I thought we were going
off the road a couple of times.
  Upon returning the next day we did not have to worry about finishing
the set up as the two halves of the trailers were scattered across 4
acres of field and smashed about as flat as if they had been run over
by a freight train. I can truely appreciate the power of major storm
systems but I'm also smart enough to get out of their way despite my
own fascination with them. I hope you too are as smart as I have been
and know when to run like heck when the time comes : )

-- 
Ken Tyler

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