If the best thing about an earthquake is that it's over by the time you start thinking about it, a hurricane feels like the worst possible case of ADHD.
As a boy child, I went through the customary stages of boy-child fascination: dinosaurs, vehicles, volcanoes... I thought a lot about Harry "The Mountain Ain't Gonna Hurt Me" Truman, the man who owned a lodge at the foot of St. Helens.
My son could go to stay with his mom, in a modern house out of the floodplain... For some reason, all my hurricane anxiety said stay.
Despite being America's hurricane playground, Florida does not make it easy to leave. Southbound I-75 does not get opened for contraflow.
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