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misanthrope

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8. Bingo. Were it solely up to me,

Reply to DFW (Reply #5)

Thu May 19, 2022, 05:35 PM

May 2022

we would have relocated decades ago. My wife is native, though, and despite what she said before we were married, she can't stand the idea of not living here. Of course, she also gets very upset when I say that her family's longtime beach house on a barrier island south of here is destined to be in the Gulf, maybe before the end of our lives. I can't imagine harboring that kind of willful ignorance.

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I normally take hurricane season with a grain of salt [View all] misanthrope May 2022 OP

We all remember Katrina. I lived through Wilma. Tommy Carcetti May 2022 #1

I lived through Wilma too. iscooterliberally May 2022 #7

As hot as it has been down in Texas, no doubt Gulf waters are WARMER too. ProudMNDemocrat May 2022 #2

Michael wiped out 75% of the trees on my 30 acre property and I am 75 miles inland. Chainfire May 2022 #3

Important OP malaise May 2022 #4

If I still lived in North America DFW May 2022 #5

Bingo. Were it solely up to me, misanthrope May 2022 #8

I used to also. But now I have lost loved ones to storms. Scrivener7 May 2022 #6

My preferred option is to evacuate misanthrope May 2022 #9