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P-cola_Native (7/12/2008)Camping out without power after the storm was fun though.
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If you say so! I'd say the week long power outage was the worst part of it. We rode out Ivan too. We live on a big bluff on the south side of east bay. We have a lot of trees, so they took the hit. The yard looked like a jungle after the storm, took for ever to clear even the driveway. The storm surge was contained by the bluff we live on, but it destroyed half our dock and tipped the boathouse over.
I'd say hurricane dennis was equally ba for us. We were on the west side of the storm as it hit, so the winds were coming from the north. We had alittle space to peer out above a board on our living room window. In the eyewall, were were facing 100+ mph winds coming right at us (no protection when right on the water). The full force of the wind built up across the bay and blew right at us. There were hickory nuts flying off the trees and smashing into the house at high speeds. After a while, it all stopped. The eye came over us and we walked outside. The sun came out and a bunch of bugs were flying around, I guess they were trapped in the eye. Pretty crazy experience.