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116. At least you know about camping, too :)

I grew up camping every month, whether with family or in Boy Scouts, so I know the worst type of camping is on the beach. Don't do it, if it involves sand!

Hurricanes are also only predictable to a point. Remember Hurricane Rita in 2005? After the total disaster that was Katrina, those that evacuated Houston and Galveston when Rita was bearing down found that they might have been better off staying and "sheltering in place" like my ex-wife and I did. We would have evacuated, too, but waited too long. Hearing reports of 24 hours on the road to Austin when it's normally a 3-4 hour trip made us stay. That and how it became deadlier for some versus if they had stayed.

I do remember that the evacuation before Ike went much better, thanks to better planning and learning how to turn the freeways into one-way outlets.

We've had ice storms here, too, the most recent one in early 2011, I think. All I know is that there were almost 800 accidents that day, and all due to iced-over bridges. The regular surface roads were fine, but people were driving as if everything was iced. I saw plenty of white-knuckled drivers on streets there were merely wet. Sometimes getting out is more dangerous than staying home, due to universally ill-informed residents.

Maybe you ought to write up your adventures and sell it. On Amazon