Safe From Hurricane Season!

 If there is anything good about winter, it is that we are safe from hurricane season.  The season runs from June 1 through the month of November, so, when we get to December we feel safe from those named storms of summer for a few months.

When Hurricane Dorian hit the island and our home in 2019 we got fifty-four inches of flood water at our house.  Even though the garage is elevated about three feet, this was not enough.  We got more than a foot of water inside the elevated garage and lost one of our cars we had put in the garage while we were traveling west in our Airstream.  If the Airstream had been there, it would have floated totally away.

So, this past summer, when we started our westward journey in the car instead of with the camper, we planned for flood safety well ahead of time.  We took the Airstream off the island and put it in storage in Greenville, North Carolina, in May.  In July we took the GLS SUV and gave to to Jonathan and Kahran for safe keeping.  They could use a big car for a while as they were moving and having a baby in the last half of 2021.  Our little sunset-ride convertible C 300 we stored with Doug and Jill so they could enjoy it during the good weather. Trish and I traveled in the big car.

When December arrived, all the vehicles started to come home!  As of this week, with the return of the Airstream, we are all back together again.  The interesting thing is that, lined up in front of the garage and looking at where the Hurricane Dorian floodwater came, they would all have been destroyed if we had had another storm like that had they not been moved.

Now we know that next summer we will again park whatever is not being used far off the island when hurricane season comes again.

All of these vehicles would have been destroyed if we had another storm like Dorian.  They were all safe off the island.