Very grateful it didn't develop! I was half-expecting to come out of the hospital at the end of the day to find my car upside down somewhere in the football stadium (the football stadium is at the end of the hospital parking lot). And that'd be the least of anyone's worries, of course. So, glad it failed to come together.
I'd just arrived here last year when the superstorm that apparently
was a derecho came through. We were at a welcome party for all the new residents, sitting in a faculty member's backyard under a big rented tent that accommodated 100, with rented tables, chairs, etc. We saw the storm coming, looked at each other, said WTF and repaired to the basement. Some of the tables were flung against the fence at the edge of the yard and remained, but the chairs went awol and the tent simply disappeared. And we lost power for more than 24 hours and I got to use my hand-cranked radio for the first time! Even better, it worked.
