Who felt the earthquake?

dmd77
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:50:11 +0000

Midmo: I think you’re talking about Hurricane Gloria, September of 1985. We had four old and large oak trees fall in the woods around our house. Two of them actually touched the house with their top branches… One fell across the driveway. None was less than 18 inches in diameter. It cost some $$ to have the trees cut up and put out of the way, but we had fuel for the wood stove for three years. Another friend had an oak tree hit his house–several hundred thousand in repairs were required.

In 1991 Hurricane Bob caused a lot of damage on Cape Cod, including washing some houses away–one of them belonging to a friend’s parents.

In 1955, I nearly drowned in Hurricane Diane; I was one month old and my mother left me in the backyard in my bassinet… The water was several inches deep before she remembered me. (To be fair, the storm hit during my sister’s wedding and she was busy with a lot of things.)

Me, I’d rather be in an earthquake-prepped house (as I was in February of 2001 when the Nisqually Quake hit this area) than in a hurricane.