Funny story:
When Hurricane Ivan menaced the Florida Panhandle (2004) we got out of town for a few days, as is the wisdom in that region. Upon our return from Birmingham, Alabama (which was windy and wet enough, thank you very much) we could see the devastation increasing as we got closer and closer to the coast.
Imagine our surprise when we got home and discovered that -- although the power pole had been knocked down and the line from the street was on the ground -- my electricity worked just fine and wasn't that an odd stroke of luck? Of course, it wasn't safe so we had to call the power company to have the service shut off.
There's another thread on here somewhere about irony . . . I think me having to call Gulf Electric to have my power turned off while everyone else in my neighborhood was calling for . . . yeah . . . I think that qualifies.
Anyway, what I remember most about not having water -- and some didn't have it for more than a month -- was the high school kids, Junior ROTC really pitched in to distribute food and water to a lot of people who didn't have any. Them and the Red Cross.
Another funny thing: Most people don't remember Hurricane Ivan. Ivan got upstaged a year later by a naughtier hurricane that took a similar path but got sassy with a bigger city. You all remember that one, I'll bet.
