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femmedem

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7. I know a 96-year-old man who walked home from school in the midst of Connecticut's 1938 hurricane.

Reply to surfered (Original post)

Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:38 AM

Jun 2025

He says, in an oral history interview, that there was no warning, and when the school closed, kids had to walk home, clambering over fallen trees in the wind and rain.

Is that where we're heading?

I live within a half mile of the coast, so this scares the crap out of me.

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I know a 96-year-old man who walked home from school in the midst of Connecticut's 1938 hurricane. femmedem Jun 2025 #7

Apparently, this has been under consideration for years. It's not really that abrupt, although I'm sure it will have Silent Type Jun 2025 #8