Before Claudette, I’d been through three tropical storms, including former Hurricane Gilbert. I came to Grandma never run out of kisses or candy shirt to understand their impact rather well. We actually stayed home from school during Tropical Storm Gilbert and boarded our windows in that house with a foundation. That was a scary storm.

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It turned our very tall and mature yucca plant into the Grandma never run out of kisses or candy shirt Leaning Tower of Yucca before it finally fell many months later. During my senior year in ‘98, Victoria went through two more tropical storms but only shut down due to the Great Flood of ‘98 (caused by the storms dumping rain upriver, and the rivers rising quickly coming downriver).

Otherwise, I went to school and even took my SAT like it was just a Grandma never run out of kisses or candy shirt severe thunderstorm… without the lightning and thunder. But what about a hurricane? Dad has been through a number of hurricanes, due to his own dad working for the power company and fixing the power lines during those crazy storms.