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Hurricane Jeanne

Power & fury

By Times Staff Writer
Published October 1, 2004

What do you do when another giant storm is schlepping across the state to your coast?

Most folks hunker down or evacuate, and a few feel compelled to get out and experience it, knowing that limbs, whole trees, power lines - even billboards - might blow over. Why not get out and see the water chopped up like pastrami, feel the sting of the rain, try to defy the wind? Dumb or not, the day after, amid all the mess and misery, and maybe lighting a candle, taking a tepid shower and picking up the yard, they can say: "I felt it."

[Last modified September 30, 2004, 12:33:27]

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