10-03-2023, 08:26 AM
(09-30-2023, 09:00 AM)rayheinrich Wrote: I come from a family that loves the excitement of hurricanes, particularly my dad. There was a tremendous amount of wind and then the calm of the center of the hurricane started to pass over us. He timed the center of Carla and let us go out saying we had to be back in 30 minutes and gave us one of his watches to carry around. We rode bicycles around, looked at all the downed trees, some of them on people's houses, and had fun chasing fish in a few feet of storm surge water that covered our streets. My uncle and his kids - his house a long block from here and 18 feet above - actually were fishing out his bathroom window and caught a few fish.This is a wild story.
That's a dad who is confident in his math skills.
I've never heard this phrase "a long block" before.
About the bizarre: when I was in university, I used to make up ridiculous acronyms for things or fantastical backstories for historical figures because it helped me to remember the mundane details. I used to do quite well, leveraging creative writing as a mnemonic device. It's a thing.