Frequent Make contributor Dave Prochnow sent me an email about his family's experience with the hurricane, and I thought it was so interesting that we ran it on the Make website.
The rain (over 10-inches worth; I actually made two trips outside to empty the rain gauge so that I would have an accurate estimate) is blown with such force that it becomes kinda frothy and sticky, like an oil. Oddly enough, it is also white in color almost like snow—think wet, wild, warm blizzard. The only thing that really bothered us was the loss of our beautiful backyard forest. Fifty-to-sixty-foot tall trees fell over like beer bottles after a fun Friday night. The ground would actually shake as each one hit. In case you're keeping score at home, pine trees will snap in half, while the leafy deciduous trees fall over. Very impressive. All told, we lost $100,000 to $200,000 worth of trees, but that's ALL. We were OK, our house was OK, and so we erroneously thought everything else would be OK, too.
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