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Perhaps you should have experienced hurricane Agnes in Harrisburg, PA in 1972. Or perhaps Gloria in Connecticut in 198?
In the case of Harrisburg, that isn't a direct hit. It's mostly rain. Moisture from these storms can move quite a distance inland. We've had floods in California that have resulted from dissipating hurricanes. Connecticut is subject to direct hits and they've experience more than a few hurricanes over the years.
 


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In the case of Harrisburg, that isn't a direct hit. It's mostly rain. Moisture from these storms can move quite a distance inland. We've had floods in California that have resulted from dissipating hurricanes. Connecticut is subject to direct hits and they've experience more than a few hurricanes over the years.
We have in Iowa too. Usually not much life left in them but we have gotten scraps from hurricanes.
 

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Oh my yes we absolutely get effed in the A by Hurricanes in Pittsburgh. Ivan did.a freaking number on the place.
Irene gave us quite a beating as well. That whole summer was bad.

I remember it very clearly, as it was the first summer I owned my own place, my wife was working nights, and I was mowing every day just to keep the grass ankle high. If I missed two days in a row it would get so high it would clog the deck. A lot of days I ended up mowing in the rain, then at the end one day I got a call from my boss telling me not to come in because the advisor who lived a few blocks up from me had called in already saying he couldn't find any route to work that was open because all the bridges across the Susquehanna were closed.
 

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I'm in the lowest point of Savannah right now but far enough away to not see storm surge. But we will have flooding. A good thunderstorm puts the property under enough water the ducks can swim across the lawn. Everything is on 3 foot stilts though. I put a stick with tape in the yard. If it hits red, we need to start moving household stuff up. They are still calling for 12-20 inches of rain in one day. Its gonna be close and we will definitely be unable to leave the property for a couple days. Who knows what's happening now though, the storm seems to have stalled out.
But where oh where will you poop?
 

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We had a major ice storm while I was working for the county road department. I was clearing fallen trees covered with ice to open the roads. I had to take a dump and was squatting in the woods, in the position, and tree limbs were snapping and falling all around me. When they broke it sounded like a gun going off. I knew I was going to die with my pants down in a pile of poo.
 

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It's on top of us now!!!!!

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