The 10 Worst Things You Can Do During Severe Weather

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48. Yes it happened in Sandy.

That is one area totally not used to being prepared for a hurricane.
I tried to tell people not to take it lightly, but if people haven't been through one, they really don 't understand.

I live in SC and there are many newcomers who have not gone through a major storm. They think people who have are exaggerating. A lot of people made that mistake with Hugo and they will never make it again. You simply cannot convince a lot of people and they have to live through one, hopefully live.

I have a cousin who moved to Myrtle Beach in the early 1990s. She has experienced glancing blows from hurricanes and she thinks she is an expert.

She told me he had one tree to worry about during a storm. She has a brazillion trees in her yard not to mention those just off her property. I asked her why she thought only one tree was dangerous. She informed me that she had observed which way the wind blew and it was the only one that was a danger to fall and hit her house.

I told her that the wind changes depending on what section of the storm you were in. I also told her that those winds would snatch trees out of the ground and launch them gawd knows where. She waved me off.

Then she informed me she wouldn't evacuate because more damage was done inland. I gave her the side-eye and asked where she got that fun fact. It was from her observations of Hugo. Never mind that the coast got beaten to death by water and wind. She lives across a Highway 17 and I told her that it wasn't a wall.

My mother called her a damn fool and my mother was loathe to criticize relatives.