Joshw wrote:
Me too. Besides hurricane Ike, I used to live in Kansas City, Kansas. There was a gigantic tornado in 2003 (I think) that hit a mile or two away. In 2002 there was an ice storm that knocked power out for days.
Ah, living in Kansas City sure is interesting. I remember that tornado, I was chasing it then... It hit right next to a coworker's house. Houses on both sides of her's were completely destroyed, but she had just lost about half her roof. Most of us from work spent a weekend there helping her rebuild, which ended up being a lot of fun.
That ice storm was not so much fun. My apartment was without power for about a week, so I just stayed at a friend's house most of that time. Tried staying in my apartment the first couple of nights, sure it got cold but it was more the not being able to shower or cook food thing that convinced me to stay elsewhere.
Now that I own a house I don't look forward to the cleanup resulting from the wind storms and ice storms... A neighbor's tree fell last winter during a not-particularly-bad ice storm and totally destroyed my fence that I just put up the summer before. Then after I helped the guy cut up the tree and get it all removed, he didn't bother to help me rebuild my fence, sigh. Oh well, it's not like I had to pay for all the new material to fix it. Yay for other people's insurance!