Hurricane Ivan, you bastard
Hurricane Ivan roared into the Gulf Coast during the wee hours of Thursday, September 16, 2004. The eye went ashore around Gulf Shores, Alabama, not far from my sister in Perdido Beach. My sister and brother-in-law fared okay; they of course lost power (and probably won’t get it back for weeks) and had limbs down, but none through their house, and the storm surge didn’t affect them since the eye virtually went right over them. Our parents to the east in Milton, Florida, however, didn’t fare as well. Shit, that’s the understatement of the year.
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